Written by melanie.marconiApril 25, 2026 April is National Volunteer Month. Discover why volunteering matters, how VIDA Coworking gives back in Portland and Beaverton, and how to get started in your community.
Written by melanie.marconiAugust 19, 2025 Taking my 12-year-old daughter to the City of Light was a dream years in the making. Here’s everything we learned about creating the perfect Paris getaway with tweens – from flights and hotels to Disney magic and everything in between.
Written by melanie.marconiApril 26, 2024 The VIDA 2024 Mother’s Day Gift Guide!
Written by melanie.marconiAugust 7, 2019 There’s no one right way to raise children. In today’s world, “having it all” really means choosing the shuffle of pros and cons that works best for your family. For many mothers, that balance includes working, a reality that requires time away from the kids.This inevitably means missing things. Some
Written by melanie.marconiFebruary 20, 2019 The phrase “business trip” may sound glamorous, but frequent fliers know that work travel is often less of a vacation and more of a long slog of laptop-lugging, hotel lobby-dwelling, yet-another-airport-cobb-salad eating drudgery. But with a little advance planning, you can turn business travel into something a lot more fun:
Written by melanie.marconiOctober 31, 2018 Welcome to the first Vlog post of the Make Life/Work Blog! Rather than write a synopsis of three books that I read this month, I thought that instead I would share it with you via video. “As a single mom and a CEO of my own household and CEO of my
Written by melanie.marconiOctober 31, 2018 Welcome to the first Vlog post of the Make Life/Work Blog! Rather than write a synopsis of three books that I read this month, I thought that instead I would share it with you via video. “As a single mom and a CEO of my own household and CEO of my