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Fighting for My American Dream
The Week magazine’s statistics sidebar, called The Bottom Line, offers the following tidbits in its August 30 edition: Existing home sales hit a four-year high, rising more than 6 percent in July to a...
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Women in Power Having Sex
My philosophy about drug-taking athletes, adulterous movie stars, and embezzling politicians is that everyone is doing it, they just got caught. I am able to separate the public face of these people...
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Put down that phone and pay attention!
I finally admitted something was amiss when my 11-year old daughter said she needed an iPhone “so that when we’re in the living room watching TV, I have something to play on just like you and Clara...
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Bacon and kale walk into a bar…
I remember learning in college that Freud’s concepts of the ego, superego, and id can be imagined as a man riding a runaway horse while whipping himself. When applied to food and our dietary habits,...
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Driving Myself Crazy
A year and a half ago I totaled my car on one of my city’s major freeways. I was the third car in a 5-car pile-up and although I walked away unhurt, the psychological damage lingers. I think it’s...
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What happens when the village is MIA?
Here’s the tweet that appeared in my Twitter feed yesterday: I don’t always see eye-to-eye with the politics of my family and friends, but I generally try to just stay quiet, preferring long-term...
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How do you teach integrity?
Honesty, responsibility, integrity, a good reputation, trust – these are all values that we as parents think we model in our homes and teach to our children. How do you handle it when something goes...
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Leading Ladies Go to Vegas
I started this blog over a year ago to speak specifically to women, to encourage them and share ideas for becoming fearless, for being “the leading lady of your own life.” I am pleased to say that many...
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Live like no one else will, so later…
…you can live no one else can. Thus spake Dave Ramsey, my financial guru of choice. I’ve been re-reading his Total Money Makeover lately because while some people are caught up in visions of...
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Dream a Little Dream
The first post for the new year means it’s time for a new theme – the lens through which I plan for the year ahead. I’m not big on making resolutions, but I do like to set some goals. My theme for 2013...
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