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Plaid: When you aren’t in the kitchen, where would we find you and what would you be doing?

Callie: Drinking some vino and snacking on some appetizers at a local Fort Worth restaurant.

Plaid: What was […]

I love to people watch. Wherever I am, I tend to absorb as much of my surroundings as possible. I watch and wonder what made one person think the outfit they are wearing is “the outfit,” or I wonder what is cau […]

Have you ever felt like you were just a “crappy mom”?

Chances are if you are a mom in any capacity, you’ve felt this at one time or another.

I used to be a “crappy mom,” too! In the first 2 years of my busin […]

Valentine’s Day was just a few weeks ago and everywhere you looked retail stores and ads told us we needed a gift from someone special to feel loved. Chocolates, flowers, teddy bears holding hearts, chocolate c […]

According to Google’s dictionary, the word quotient can have two meanings: “a (mathematical) result obtained by dividing one quantity by another” or “a degree or amount of a specified quality or charact […]

Are you one of the 26% of Americans that have not read a book last year? In my lifetime and career, I have found that reading, whether for pleasure or for self- development, has always helped me move my goals and […]

I have a library of women I can call on. With each turn of the page, their words console me. We have a lifetime of stories to draw from as we have shared secrets and tears along with laughter that fills our world […]

The Qur’an. It’s been cherished, vilified, targeted as a message of violence and hate, but is also a comprehensive guide for billions throughout the world. Never has a book engendered such conflicting e […]

A holistic treatment approach for substance abuse disorder is a form of healing that treats the whole-person. While standard treatments only consider body, emotions, and mind, holistic treatment includes spirit […]

Plaid: What are your Fort Worth roots?

Liz: My parents met and fell in love while attending TCU. They spent a short time in Corpus Christi where I was born but moved back to Fort Worth when I was about a year o […]

I devour novels — stay up too late reading them; lock myself into one position for way too long; skip meals; ignore responsibilities. Obviously, novels are bad for me — I limit myself to one novel a year. I rea […]

When I formed Alignment, Inc. almost 15 years ago, the word (and concept) of ‘alignment’ was, for the most part, reserved for body shops and chiropractors! Yet, successful leaders and my senior leader/CEO fri […]

Gratitude goes beyond a simple thank you.

Gratitude can become a way of life when you choose to be mindfully present in each moment.

Every time we take a breath is a reason for gratitude.

Each time we […]