A hand-selected round-up of recent posts from other bloggers that I found particularly insightful, provocative, informative or just downright entertaining, and thus, would like to enthusiastically recommend as being well worth your time…

- Over at The Happiest Mom, Meagan Francis and her readers are collectively taking an honest look at their own personal money “issues” and pain points, and discussing this tough topic with a lot of openness.

- Okay, this is just fantastic; my good friend and co-worker Kelley Walters is chronicling her adventures as a novice BEEKEEPER over at HGTVGardens.

- My gorgeous pal Sarah James of Whoorl has checked out an array of fab lipsticks so we don’t have to. In other words, her post offers photos of her wearing various brands and shades without crazy airbrushing.

-Have you checked in with Dr. Neighbor lately? Because he’s got some big news; he’s no longer Living In His Van. No, instead, he’s now living inside a freaking Jimmy Buffet song.

-Writer extraordinaire Tracey Gaughran-Perez of Sweetney shares her decision to fundamentally reorient one area of her blogging.

-Prepare to snortle (word I just made up: snort + chortle) when you check out my friend & (new!) coworker Marianne’s just-launched “Sartorial Zoo,” where, “Style Meets Baby Animals. Because, DUH.”

-Damn you, Allison Czarnecki! Why’d you have to go & make me get all wistful about where I truly believe I am supposed to live, which is at the beach, in the sunshine…

-Over at Flux Capacitor, Sweet Maggie is bravely opening up in her typical, beautifully expressed way about the struggles she’s having with anxiety and panic issues since the birth of her fourth & youngest child. I bet that some of you reading this can relate, and I hope you will pop over to Maggie’s blog and let her know how you made it thru the toughest parts of the slog.

-Lordy, do I ever know me some smart women. Like Kristen Howerton and Joanne Bamberger, for example.