Deb Kreimborg

Is your life crazy at times?  I know mine is!  Where does the time go?  The days seem to get shorter, and I know that months and years are somehow disappearing.  I remember my parents talking about how time was […]

July has some fun national food days. There’s Ice Cream Day (7/15), Milk Chocolate Day (7/28) and of course Tequila Day (7/24). Though it might be fun to see how we could make tequila healthy, I thought the best a […]

Life would be so much easier for me and less stressful if I was a Felix Unger instead of an Oscar Madison like in the comedy, ‘The Odd Couple.’ I have spent countless hours looking for keys, purses and important […]

Life is funny! If you had told me when we married that we would have four children in about four years with twins in the middle, I would have laughed. If you had told me that I would eventually spend 10,000 plus […]

Saturday is Tell the Truth Day and there is no better way to get to the truth than through the power of questions.

I am a huge believer that the questions we ask ourselves and others throughout our lives […]

Whether you want success for business or your personal life, the strategies are the same. Your success is ultimately determined by your daily decisions and habits. Use these 5 steps to develop successful habits […]

There’s a lot to be said for the wisdom of hindsight. Here are a few tips I learned through the years that I hope helps our younger readers.
Nothing Ever Goes to Waste
Are you stuck in a dead-end job twiddling y […]

I am swarmed by the tribes of Native American Indians that are dressed in vibrant colors as I pull out my very expensive camera in the open air of the Mercado. Some of the Indians smile sheepishly while others […]

I am a Project Junkie. With every project I have this voice in my head and a tap on my shoulder that is my constant remainder.

The weird part is I am extremely creative, not suppose to have organizational […]

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Nominally, I’m an ex-Buddhist. Maybe it was that angle that appealed to the Plaid team to choose me to write for this column, i.e. “a contemporary per […]

A strong predictor of an offender’s success in the criminal justice system is the support they have from others. One of the saddest things I have heard as a probation officer is that I am an offender’s best fri […]

Part of me feels like I shouldn’t be writing about this topic at all because you already know the truth of what I’m about to say. Yet, I found myself explaining this truth to a few individuals since last we cha […]

I went through a phase in my life in my late 20’s where I had come to the realization that I would be just fine going through life without another new female friend ever again. At that point I had been severely b […]

I saw her like I had never seen anything before. I saw her with such clarity it frightened me. She was quiet. No noise. She had gray blue eyes. She had dark hair. She was Intense. I was in awe. She was in me and […]

How much do you love yourself? No seriously. How much? It is a question I pose to all the women in my life, especially when I see them climbing up on their “no one cares for me” soap boxes. I am not casting jud […]

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A funny thing has happened to me, and I am almost embarrassed to admit it but here it is: at some point over the last years, I have become “addicted” to […]

Happy February to everyone, welcome to my inaugural blog on the Plaid for Women platform! I am honored to have been asked to be a contributor and want to thank Shivaun for providing me with this fabulous […]