Easy, Healthy After-School Snacks
Some recipes for somewhat healthy, quick treats to celebrate the new school year: Simple veggie dip: Light sour cream; add seasoning salt (like Lowry’s), dill,…
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Bullying—How Does a Mother Deal With It?
Have you or your child ever been the victim of a bully? If you are human and breathing, chances are you said yes. So, what…
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Are Our Kids Overcommitted?
Are you overwhelmed with your fall schedule? Do you feel like you are racing from one carpool to the next, dashing to pick up one…
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Dressing Ourselves and Our Daughters
The fashion industry and its attempts to help women accentuate their beauty began, I imagine, when Eve set to work one day to make her animal skin…
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Chicken Chili … a Family Favorite
Here is our family’s favorite chili—a real winner for fall nights! Chicken Chili 3-4 chicken breasts 1-2 cups of chicken broth 1, 14-ounce can of…
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Fashion or Failure?
Venturing out to purchase a piece of clothing for your tween or teen daughter can be down right traumatic. The clothing choices the fashion industry…
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That Painful 1%
It happened after we ate at Chick-fil-A one evening, when my husband and I drove home separately, the kids riding with me in their car…
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Bullying and “Blubber”
At the age of four, my favorite pastime became reading. My mom said I went straight from the Berenstain Bears to Sherlock Holmes with few…
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Superior Wife Syndrome
On a recent Monday morning, I had turned on the Today Show to catch our local news and weather on the half hour. As I…
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12 Fun Things About Getting Older
I don’t feel old. Okay, so I do have 14 grandchildren with another one due any day, and I think magnifying mirrors are the worst invention…
