Amy Michelle Go Totes

Tips for Better Business Trips

Being sent out-of-town to cultivate new clients, schmooze with big donors, run meetings, or do a million other things that could happen on a business trip can be difficult enough. Don’t make it more difficult for yourself than it needs to be. There are ... Read >

A Family Staycation With a Picnic at the Pool

Summer may be almost over, but pool and picnic season goes well into August and September! Going to the pool is a little piece of summer that your family can hold on to and make into a staycation. So, grab your travel bag and get ready to go on vacation... Read >

Work-Place Romance: How To Negotiate The Appropriate

In the past, office relationships have been 100%, completely, totally, and unequivocally forbidden. They were considered distracting and unprofessional. To some extent that is still the case. The only issue with completely forbidding them now is that t... Read >

To Buy or Not to Buy: The Eternal Question of Travel Insurance

Bob N. and his family were booked on a Disney cruise, with travel insurance, in 1997 when Uncle Tommy died. The family cancelled the cruise and asked for their money back. The insurance company said Uncle Tommy had a pre-existing condition so this circum... Read >

Guidelines for Dressing Business Casual for Women

Now that summer is in full-swing, we have a tendency to want to dress more casually. This is true in all facets of life whether they be play, travel, or work. While no one really cares how you dress when you are playing or traveling, aside from dressing... Read >

Good, Old-Fashioned Family Fun: Alternatives to Over-Scheduling Sumer Camps

If you ask your average young adult today, they will tell you that growing up it felt like their parents couldn’t get rid of them fast enough in the summer. Not that they didn’t like having us around, it was having us underfoot 24/7 that would drive anyo... Read >

Brown Bag your Lunch: Eating Healthily at Work

It’s a simple fact of life; everyone get’s hungry. Where I have found being hungry to be most aggravating is at work. Not that hunger itself is aggravating; it’s the lack of options to snack from that is aggravating. In most offices, there is some sort... Read >

The Mom Travel Bag: Traveling with Small Children

Traveling is something that most of us love, and it comes in so many forms! There are fun vacations, romantic vacations, staycations, and family vacations, just to name a few. In general, families with small children try to have their family vacations ... Read >

The Babysitter Bag: How to Become a Super-Babysitter

Most people think babysitting is just for high schoolers looking to make extra cash on the weekend and that there is no particular skill or talent involved. The babysitter just needs to be older than twelve and responsible enough to get the children to b... Read >

How to dress for summer in the office

With the changing seasons comes a changing wardrobe. As summer comes back around sweaters go into hibernation, boots crawl into back corners of the closet, and knitted scarves and hats move themselves to the top shelves to await the return of fall. Pre-... Read >

Packing for Spring in Europe

One of the best parts about studying in Europe is the chance to travel. It’s so easy to travel between cities or even between countries. In fact, it’s easier to travel between countries in Europe than states in the United States. The hard part about tr... Read >