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Getting a Tattoo?: 10 Things NOT To Do
During the day, I play a tattoo artist on TV. Okay, I really am a tattoo artist (not to be confused with my night job of a ninja assassin), and I love my job. There are certain things about my job that...
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It's always hard to say good-bye at the end of a BlogHer event. So why not extend the fun and learning a little longer? BlogHer Co-founders Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort Page, and Jory Des Jardins, along...
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Using Dessert to Teach Kids About Good Foods
[Editor's Note: Our house is full of so many food struggles that I wonder if meal time will ever be truly enjoyable. I came across this post at My Kids Really Eat This and wondered if she has a point....
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Are You Prepared with a "Digital Estate?"
Now that everything is digital and password protected, we have to deal with the notion of what happens to all that digital data after our demise. Susana Polo from The Mary Sue brings you a story about...
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Ideas Matter: Why the Creative Class Survives and Thrives
Looking back at the recent economic crisis, it’s easy to think that all classes and industries suffered equally. In reality, workers in the so-called creative class have come through relatively...
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Parents Sue School District Over Blog and I Can't Figure Out Why
Twin Lee's Summit North students were suspended in December 2011 for 180 days because of their blog. They are now suing the Lee's Summit school district because they say one racist post cited by the...
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I'll Never be a "Real" Dance Mom...
[Editor's Note: I've already ranted about the show Dance Moms, but I know the real life stuff is just as hard to deal with at times. Mama M at My Little Life is struggling with some of the "stuff" of...
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My Friends Think I'm the Only Liberal They Know. I Don't Know What I Am.
I'm pro guns (legally, in the right hands), but I’m pro birth control. I’m not for using guns as birth control, unless of course you count shooting the testicles off a child molester. All for that. I’m...
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Romney Wins Illinois Primary; Women Voters Key to His Strategy
On the same day that a video went viral on the "Real Mitt Romney" (the title of which caught BlogHer editor Julie Ross Godar's eye this morning since it sounded amazingly like a post I wrote), the...
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BlogHer Participates in White House Roundtable on the Affordable Care Act
Today, I attended a small roundtable discussion with 11 other women in the Roosevelt room at the White House. We talked about the Affordable Care Act and how it is playing out in the actual lives of...
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More Single Parent Rhetoric
While I'm loathe to post two semi-political posts in a row, I can't stop myself. I have to take issue with this: In an effort to encourage people to get married, Santorum has proposed eliminating...
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Cherishing Friendships that Start Online
Perhaps this is a familiar sensation for anyone who has been on the Internet for a while; that moment when you realize that your readers have been with you for so long that they have watched your child...
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How I Ate Cookies and Put $1,000 In The Bank
Saving money. Something we should all be doing, right? Putting money away for a rainy day, for those worst-case scenarios we hope never happen: I lose my job, I get injured and can’t work, a family...
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Chinese Spicy Beef Noodle Soup
This delicious and hearty-looking Chinese beef noodle soup starts as a Sichuan stew before it's ready to transform via this recipe. Cooking this dish is not only a great way to learn more about the art...
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Mormon Feminists Find Their Voice As Bloggers
[Editor's note: Women who just happen to be Mormon and feminists are increasingly finding their voices--and each other--on blogs. As Frieda Klotz reveals in a fascinating story at the Guardian, they...
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(EXCERPT) The Fault in Our Stars
If you haven't had a chance to get your hands on BlogHer Book Club's pick, The Fault in Our Stars, here's an excerpt to get you started. Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I...
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Surviving the Afterbirth
There are experiences that stick in our own memories for years. Sometimes we write them and share them with those on our blogs. Angie Kinghorn recently wrote a post that will likely stick in my mind...
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Spring is Here - Time to Trim Your Perennial Herbs
Salt Lake has been having spring-like weather lately, so on one of those warm days I went out in the garden and trimmed most of my perennial herbs, making way for the green shoots to appear. When I...
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On the Gunman at the French Preschool: For Toulouse, With Love
Toutes mes condoléances. Toutes mes condoléances. Please accept my deepest condolences. A few days ago, a gunman in Toulouse, France opened fire on a Jewish day school. A preschool. An elementary...
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Dollar Shave Club: How to Launch a Startup with Creativity, Style, and Humor
I absolutely love hearing about startups, businesses, and work that people do that comes from them owning who they are and doing it with a sense of style and humor. Today my husband shared a new...
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