Tandem For Two Blog

What We Can Give This Month

What is it about the holiday season that makes us take stock of what we are thankful for, become more generous, or more giving? Giving of our finances, our time,...

Thankful This Month

Where did fall go? A minute ago it was summer, fall passed in a blur, Halloween took a second, and now we are on the eve of the holiday season....

October is Pretty Wonderful

Even though it feels way too cold way too early, we headed north with some friends to see what colors we could see and what hidden gems we could find along...

Gather Together This Fall

I am not letting the Fall season whip by in a blur of activities and wonder how it got to be Thanksgiving already. I am going to gather friends on...

Things I Love this Season

I've been trying to reach out and check in on others more this season. Maybe a text or a note on my hello fall card. A package in the mail...

Better In Community

Community is what we were looking for all those years ago when we were fresh out of college and deciding where to live. We didn’t even think of leaving this...

Squeeze the Fun Out of Summer!

I’m not done yet! We've all seen the back-to-school supplies in the stores and have started to get the catalogs and emails, but I’m here to tell you - summer...

Tourist in Your Own Town

What is the best part of where you live? Do you enjoy it and make time for it? How often do we make time to act like a tourist in...

Summer on the Porch!

Summer to me means time on my front porch. Sometimes it's time for morning coffee as the sun warms us up, afternoon cocktails when we quit work a little early,...

Celebrate All Those You Love!

I love the month of May! I love to give gifts (and receiving is fun too) and enjoy seeing the earth wake up from the brown and bare end of...

Spring Comes Every Year!

Spring can give us hope - a tangible example that we can get through the hard, cold seasons and not just survive, but bloom. It reminds us that a season...

Time to Let Go

But if we, like Marie Kondo, only keep things that "spark joy", then I am going to keep the items around me that help me celebrate where we live and...