Do you consider yourself creative? No matter how you answer the question, you will spend a lot of time creating today. You’ll create an outfit, an attitude, or a way to help a friend. You’ll create a conversation or a moment to remember. You’ll make stuff. You’ll make stuff up....
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Barbie haters, take a deep breath. I’m about to say something nice about the too-pretty blonde girl we blame for messing up our body images. Playing with dolls has always been about imagining. It wasn’t Barbie’s fault that once upon a time girls wanted to imagine themselves in pink princess...
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This is the first Mother’s Day without an offspring at home, but believe me, I’m celebrating. I’m celebrating my own graduation from the most demanding stage of life in human existence: parenting children into adulthood.
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From the tenth row in the college theater, I saw it. As my daughter stepped to the front of the stage with her three fellow performers to belt out the stunning final chorus, something caught my eye. Just to the right of her nose, my daughter’s right cheek was ever-so-slightly...
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Now that February is over, I am rethinking “Heart Month.” I typically celebrate February by giving Valentines to unsuspecting acquaintances and painting hearts for my friends and loved ones. I have tried not to get sucked in to the heart health movement that seems to make “Heart Month” a clinical...
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Why is it that our most special days are often disappointing? Maybe it’s because the anticipation messes with our heads. Or maybe it’s because our friends and family are all self- absorbed cheapskates. Or maybe we just run out of time. Twenty-four hours is hardly enough time to celebrate the...
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