We’ve all been there. The job interview, opening up your latest investment statement, stepping on the scale, receiving a gift, going on a date. You think one thing is going to happen and, uh oh, not what you expected. Expectations...
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I read the article erase that panty line. I’ll admit to it. Let’s be clear. It was less about whether or not my panty line shows. It was, I hoped, simply an easier way to get past the angst of...
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Do you set low expectations for yourself? Do you create a detailed assessment of every possible thing that could possibly go wrong? If you do, those are good things. Really. Do you feel comforted? Julie K. Norem, PhD a professor...
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It appears to me that if one is savvy enough one can negotiate through life without committing to anyone or anything. Here's how it works. Attending a formal fete? Nothing to wear? No problem. Two enterprising young Harvard B school...
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Get your lascivious fantasies under control, it's not what you might be thinking….I'm pretty certain, personally, I've never even met anyone named Mickey. The Mickey that is being screwed with is our beloved, long venerated, multibillion dollar industry, lifelong iconic...
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Walked down the aisle in my supermarket, filled up my cart with, among other things, mayonnaise, white wine vinegar, baking powder, baking soda (what IS the difference?) checked out. Wondering what I am preparing to cook? Not a thing. I...
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but, if Momma was a wrinkly mess, well, chances are that you will be too. It’s hereditary. The Loma Linda University Medical Center in California recently presented a study to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. “Using facial imaging and...
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Relationships are hard. Whether it is married folk, parent and child, business associates, singles,all are having to figure out what they need to do to find, keep or negotiate in order to achieve a successful relationship. The amount of articles...
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Do you? Have you blown a job interview because you couldn't stop your stream of consciousness? Didn't have that second date because you clearly used up all of the words you were allotted in your lifetime on the first date?...
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I imagine most of us have, at one time or another, met someone who boasted a membership in Mensa. A quick overview is that it is for those who are deemed genuises. And can prove it. And, for those of...
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I must admit, I have a morbid fascination with “before and after” pictures. Really. I can’t remember not stopping dead in my tracks when reading a magazine or newspaper (that’s when you REALLY have the time) for looking, comparing, evaluating,...
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Do you speak computer? Does Berlitz have a course? Who writes this stuff? PINGING: "In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated.[1] An XML-RPC signal is sent...
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In just a few days we turn our clocks back one hour. That's after we have confirmed with at least a dozen people that it is, absolutely and definitively, "fall' back and "spring" ahead. Then we spend the next 5...
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Eavesdropping. We all do it. While strap hanging over some folks on the subway, waiting for a movie to start, ordering at a take out counter. But those encounters only provide snippets of conversation. Not the really good stuff. The...
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A docent. A lecturer, a tour guide, an explainer of things, capable of pointing, nodding and smiling. I can do that. I am pretty certain that to be really effective I would have to attempt a British accent. It seems...
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As it should be. When Sendak wrote “Where The Wild Things Are”, more than 50 years ago, it was either derided as too dark for children, or hailed as an incredible opportunity for its readers to unleash their “collective imagination.”...
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Slain any dragons lately? Leap a moat in a single bound? Out jested the court jester? Me neither. Yet, friends tell me that their experiences in the on line- find your soulmate, honey, baby, sweetie, space- require some Herculean tasks...
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I like my side effects to be along the lines of dizziness, headaches, that sort of thing, don’t you? However, with obesity (or severely chunky, or thighs rub when you walk, or not fitting into anything you own) which are...
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What do you visualize? The Moon's landscape? The Southwestern desert? The Dow Jones? Yet, for some, "pits and valleys" actually refers to the body's mars and scars. These crevices have been permanently etched into skin that had been pulled, stretched,...
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I was there, at the first reading of the Ephron sisters staging of “Love, Loss and What I Wore.” Which is probably totally irrelevant, other than demonstrating that I do get out, from time to time. Anyhow, the biggest laugh...
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