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Do You Share Graphic Health Information on Facebook?
[Editor's Note: How much do you share about your health or the health of your family members, on Facebook? Does it make you uncomfortable when others share graphic details? - Denise] I'm not ordinarily...
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A Year of Being Blonde
Deep in grief, while writing a eulogy for her amazing friend, Lisa Kelly, Kim has a beautiful, golden, hair-brained idea, and she ends up getting more rootful insight than she bargained for:"I don’t...
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I Made a Town Meeting Gasp
I'm not the kind that plays for attention. In the background is where I feel comfortable; my husband and children say I even wear mouse-coloured clothes. My mouth is not fast, or loud. But yesterday I...
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Hot Ham & Cheese Sliders
[Editor's Note: I'm always on the lookout for great, easy dishes to serve guests who have come to visit for the holidays. This is one of those perfect lunchessatisfying and delicious, but not too much...
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Thanksgiving Couch Potatoes Unite!
There I was. Minding my own business. Clicking through BlogHer, enjoying myself while reading and writing Comments. And it happened. I started taking one of Jane Collins' surveys, nothing extensive,...
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Why I'm Not Doing a Facebook Cleanse
[Editor's Note: It's Thanksgiving -- you know, that time when we spend hours with the people we love; watching football and eating turkey and sneaking peeks at our Facebook timeline on our phone....
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(VIDEO) Why Your Kid Shouldn't Wear a Winter Coat in a Car Seat
I was shopping online a few days ago for my two-year-old, Jessi, for a winter coat. While skimming through reviews I was SHOCKED at how many people left reviews talking about buckling their kids into...
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Gratitude in Action: The Supermarket Story
This tale is one part parental love and another pure humanity. The simple slice-of-daily-life story is a reminder of what Thanksgiving Day is all about, the expression and celebration of gratitude:"You...
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(VIDEO) Highlights From Black Fridays Past
It's Black Thursday, which we used to know as "Thanksgiving," but it seems this year the C-level execs have decided to maximize prices and minimize their employees' turkey time by starting those sales...
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When Parenthood Makes You Gag: Don't Drink the Water
If you need a little laugh today, check out this post by Amy at Funny Is Family. It's a little bit gross though, like most things in parenthood. Maybe you shouldn't read it on a full Thanksgiving...
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The Secret to Forwarding an SMS on an iPhone
Like telling someone to shut off their computer by going to the Start menu, forwarding an SMS message on an iPhone is not an intuitive process. Miraz Jordan from Mac Tips knows the secret. She writes,...
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Epilepsy, One Year Later
[Editor's Note: Last Thanksgiving, Andrea started treatments for Epilepsy. It's been a difficult year but she's come through it and has found a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. - Denise]It was...
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Reuben Sandwich Party Dip
[Editor's Note: If you love the taste of Reuben sandwiches, I'm guessing you'll adore this dip, which takes all the flavor (right down to the best kind of bread) and converts it into a hot and creamy...
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Do You Have the Ingredients for Motherhood?
Today is a good day to talk about ingredients, no? Unless you ate too much turkey already and can't possibly think about food, even as an analogy. All the same, Tackling Mommyhood recently wrote a...
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I Let Motherhood and Trash Take Over My Life
My clinical psychologist friend Linda used to assure me that early childhood parenting is a time of "Survival Mode." How right she was! Young children require constant attention. Trouble is always...
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Tablet Takeover: Why the iPad Went Mini
Steve Jobs was a strong believer that for the purpose of design and usability, tablet sizes shouldn’t be smaller than 10 inches. Why then has Apple steered away from Jobs’s stern vision and released...
View ArticleBlogHer Conferences Weekly Update - - November 23, 2012
Hello friends and happy Black Friday to our US friends, and for those of you outside the US, happy Friday! And don't forget Monday is Cyber Monday for all of us -- happy shopping!Because of the short...
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My Eye Opening Beauty Secrets
I am lucky to have been blessed with an abundance of thick hairs growing from my head but my eyelashes have never been anything to write home about. They are short, straight, and very light. The fact...
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Vote With Your Dollar - Today, Every Day
Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Buy Nothing Day, Small Business Saturday. Boycott Walmart, but don't forget to support the workers!Are the pressures to both spend and not spend driving you crazy yet? I...
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Hard-Won Travel Tips
Leaving the house for faraway lands comes with certain risks. Here are some hard-won tips for easy, drama-free travel:"There are pickpockets everywhere. The Eiffel Tower even has large signs warning...
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