Posts with the category “hot-mess”

Today we're talking about family in the widest sense - the whole kit and caboodle. Aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, grandparents, second cousins twice removed, everybody in the big reunion photo… and the ones not pictured. (Later in the series we'll narrow in on households - spouses, parents, and kids.) So here's the question: who's willing to admit their family is a hot mess? Actually, maybe the better question is, does anybody have a family that isn't?  Read More

This week I want to flip the camera around. We're so used to blaming the hot messes we find ourselves in on other people - it's a chaotic environment because of someone else's behavior; it's a toxic situation because of what they are doing. We're the least likely to see our own role. But if we don't examine and check our own behavior, we might be one of the major root causes of the very mess we're in. So here are some of the ways we can turn our work into a hot mess.  Read More

You've probably heard the phrase "hot mess." Most of the time we use it to describe a particularly disorganized person or a chaotic situation. But it has another, more specific meaning too: a hot mess can be someone who looks like they've got it all together but is really just barely holding it together.  Read More