One of the luxuries I allow myself in life is to have a housecleaner come to my house every other week. I am a fairly tidy and organized...

Just kidding! I wouldn't touch that question with a ten foot pole! What I will tell you is that Alaska is the last frontier and...

When I first started in real estate eighteen years ago, I was showing property to a client. We had an appointment to view a townhome in a...

We have been doing real estate for over 20 years now! That doesn't mean we’re old 😂 …but it certainly gives us some stories to tell....

Last week, Team Heidel had to manage without their esteemed office manager, as I spent time honeymooning in Cancún. It was the first big...

My eldest daughter Aly graduates from high school in just a few short weeks. (6th overall in a class of nearly 300! 🥳) It’s an emotional...

Spring has sprung, as they say. Every year, the ornamental plum tree outside the window of my home office starts to shoot out tender...

A second marriage can be another chance for a "happily ever after." You are able to rewrite your story with someone new while carrying...

At my desk I have a little box of Pop-Open Cards my friend Paige gave me. The box is about two and a half inches square, with a black...

No, not that word! I’m talking about commissions! If you haven’t been following along, a lawsuit involving the National Association of...

Everyone said being a grandparent is wonderful so I should not have been so wildly surprised. But I was. Quite frankly, I've been...

I could not end my Exotic Asian Adventure series without talking about religion. Buddhism is the religion of the majority in Southeast...

One of the most difficult days of our Asian trip was the tour of the Cu Chi Min tunnels. I was a kid during the Vietnam war and vaguely...

In Cambodia, we had a very cool guide. We had already seen Angkor Wat (which is amazeballs) and we didn’t really need to see every single...

Vegetarians, close your eyes! Most of the food for domestic consumption is bought on a daily basis in open air markets. Talk about a...

Ahh—the food! Let's talk organic. (Personally, I think the organic market in the U.S. is a scam and hurts the environment, but that...

Before traveling to a foreign country, you typically prepare yourself by learning about the culture, food, etc. It did not occur to me,...

Recently, Stud Muffin and I had an amazing adventure in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand. We felt like we were working for National...

Why do we sometimes see the Super Bowl being referred to as the “Big Game”? It’s because the NFL restricts use of its "Super Bowl"...

For those of us living in the northwest part of the valley, the completion of the Centennial Bowl interchange has been long-awaited....