As the majority of traditional college application deadlines come to pass, we now enter what I truly believe is the hardest part of this whole process: Waiting for the school decisions. This season always reminds me of one family I met many years ago, whose only student ran the gamut from one extreme to the next. The father contacted me in late Spring of that year to convey that her first choice school had placed her on its waiting list (a campus that was over 2,000 miles awa

As a proud homeowner, I've certainly had the "pleasure" of experiencing the dreaded home renovation project. Remodeling our kitchen, bathroom and backyard have collectively taken off approximately 7 years of my life and flashes of the various mishaps still ring vividly in my mind's eye: language barriers, workers not showing up and the general feeling that I was always at the mercy of whatever decisions were made NOT by me. While test prep is certainly not the same as install