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(Video) 5 Minute Holiday Hair
Question: I have a last-minute invite to a holiday party. How can I look my best quickly? Short Answer: If you have 5 minutes, you can look divine in no time. This low side bun is one of the easiest...
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Dear Mall Santas, You're on OUR List -- and Not the Good One
[Editor's Note: Every year, I dress my boys up and traipse to our local mall for photos with Mall Santa. Last year, Mall Santa looked younger than my husband (and my husband looks pretty young for his...
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Why Every Last Mother & Child Needs a Flu Shot
This is National Influenza Vaccination Week, and Every Child by Two and Families Fighting Flu are working hard to ensure that families, parents, and individuals are exposed to the most current...
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Essentials College Grads are Missing as They Enter Workforce
[Editor's Note: There is a notable difference at times between someone just out of college and another person well-schooled in the work world (even in the most basics of jobs like say the grocery store...
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Do You Love Running in Cold Weather?
(Cold is relative. In Los Angeles, we complain when the temperature dips below 60. Mainers don't complain about cold weather until the thermometer displays sub zero temps. And we all know that the wind...
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Daily Blogging, Weekly Check-in: Gifts from Youth
You've probably noticed that chunks of writing prompts all center on the same theme. These first few days of December's NaBloPoMo focus on gifts from youth -- the ones you got and the ones you gave....
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BlogHer Network Member News: Harpa Jónsdóttir Publishes Her First Novel
Maggie Breretonfrom Smashed Peas and Carrots got a spot in the most current issue of Nova Gente SOLUÇÕES (a Portuguese DIY interior decoration magazine) with her Melted Snowman Sugar Cookies and Sugar...
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Avoiding Sugar During the Holidays
I am very proud of myself. I managed to get through an ENTIRE Halloween season without eating a single piece of candy. For me, that's really big. What's huge, though, is the fact that I didn't even...
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A Former Amish Woman Speaks
A former Amish woman who left the Order when she was married and in her 30s has graciously allowed me to interview her about the Amish experience. Once she began questioning the 'faith', her troubles...
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Theaters Embrace Social Media with Tweet Seats
In the last few years, every movie theater I've been in has made the same announcement about silencing your cell phone. Recently, some have added a reminder to not use the cell phone to access apps...
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A Mom's Letter to Santa Claus
Dear Santa: I write this letter to you using my son's pencil... on the back of this bill statement while I do laundry. I have been a good mother during this past year. I have fed, kept clean, and taken...
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A Female-Founded Tech Startup gets Funding
AboutOne, a free online organizer that makes it easy to preserve family memories and manage household information, received $1.6 million in Series A financing. The financing came from Golden Seeds, a...
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Remembering the Montreal Massacre
[Editor's note: Twenty-two years later, I still remember the Montreal Massacre. Do you? The gunman who methodically shot and killed 14 female students at the engineering school at the Ecole...
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Holiday Desserts: Finnish Cloud Pudding
[Editor's Note: I love learning about traditional holiday desserts from other cultures, so I loved reading about this Finnish dessert from Sofya of The Girls' Guide to Guns & Butter. Though Sofya...
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Could You Live on Minimum Wage?
[Editor's Note: If you had to, could you work for and live on minimum wage? We've heard the term working poor before but how does it really break down? This post takes a personal and hard look at...
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Why I'm Not Watching BaseBall Wives
I'm making the declaration right here and now; I refuse to watch Baseball Wives! There, it's official. I've put it down in writing.It's not that the show looks unbearable...although it does. It's...
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Do All Parent Volunteers Really Need a Background Check?
I found it a minor inconvenience that I had to be fingerprinted in order to volunteer at my older son's elementary school this year. Then I remembered a scary issue we had at the boys' preschool last...
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Should You Review Bad Books?
You read a book you love and you know there's no problem with writing about it on your blog. But what if it's a book you hated or even one you simply did not care for? Do you still write about it?...
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My Ideas of Success Differed from my Husband's... but It Didn't Matter
[Editor's Note: What my life was like before I became an everyday mom, what I thought my life would be like after I was parenting children and what my life is like today are three vastly different...
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My Conversation With an Occupy Protestor
Philip Oje, 26, is precisely the kind of radical every societal revolution desires. Young, earnest and idealistic, Oje joined Occupy San Francisco on September 30, 2011. He wants nothing less than to...
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