In case you are not familiar, every year there is a pre-approved list of names for tropical storms and hurricanes. This list has been generated by the gang at the National Hurricane Center since 1953. Hurricanes are named alphabetically and this year my sister’s name is on this list! Ahh…….just more material to [...]
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Most of the “challenges” I hear about are either a Discovery Health “National Body Challenge” related to losing weight or the “We Can Solve It” environmental “green” challenge that seems to part of everyone’s public relations strategy these days.There is another campaign that I wish was more visible and we could all be part of—–a [...]
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So my husband and I saw Nathan’s annual Fourth of July hot dog eating contest televised on ESPN. Have you ever gone to an all-you-can-eat buffet and eaten so much you were in pain and vowed never to return? Well, let me tell you, watching this hot dog eating contest was all pain and the [...]
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The other day my husband came across a video of this very talented kid from Boston named Bo Burnham. This kid, just doing what he loves to do, has gotten over a million hits on YouTube and now is being added to I-Tunes. Please leave comments and enjoy!
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When a friend of mine found out she was pregnant with twins and about to become a family of six, she went on a rampage looking for ways of saving money. She found all sorts of great solutions including something called the Grocery Game. It is basically a system that aligns store sales [...]
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Whether you are a democrat or a republican, there is no question that Bush has absolutely destroyed this country. Thanks to his lack of leadership, we have a weak dollar, an economic mess, a purposeless war, and a diplomatic nightmare that has made the U.S. both a joke and a target internationally. Thank goodness for [...]
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A friend of mine, who also doesn’t have time to do anything other than work and take care of things at home, recently hired a life coach. Basically the difference between a psychologist of any kind (counselor, therapists—whatever you want to call it) and a life coach is that psychologists help you deal with some [...]
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