by Melanie Vetter | May 20, 2020 | Design Your Life
Do you remember playing as a kid? Making a tent out of sheets and the furniture or building a sand castle or making up a new game? Growing up, my sister, Lisa, and I had rooms that were connected by a tiny hallway. It was our secret meeting place where we’d...
by Melanie Vetter | Mar 25, 2020 | Resilience
Each day I wake up and think to myself, ok I’ve figured out where I can walk the dog and maintain social distance, I’ve figured out the time to go shopping so there are only a few other folks in the store, I’ve figured out how to have extra adult children back in the...
by Melanie Vetter | Feb 12, 2020 | Connection
Loneliness affects more than one-third of American adults. Older adults are particularly vulnerable, but adolescents, and especially freshmen in college, are some of the lonliest people in the U.S. And loneliness is the number one fear of young people today, including...
by Melanie Vetter | Oct 16, 2019 | Design Your Life
“Don’t wait for the perfect moment; take the moment and make it perfect.” — Author Unknown It’s minutes shy of 6:00 am. The morning sun begins to dance in golden streams across my floor, and I savor the stillness as I settle in to start my day. Cupping a...
by Melanie Vetter | Oct 9, 2019 | Joy
Are you creative? What’s the first thing that comes to mind when I ask that? The short answer is you, as a human, are creative, but sometimes we don’t even realize our own creativity. Famous poet Maya Angelo said “You can’t use up creativity. The...
