Category: Parenting
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Recipe for happiness
I don’t know if it’s a fact of my upbringing or something hard-wired into me, but it’s the small things that get to me. Little details of life make me happy, and little details of life drive me up the wall. I am dismayed or angry but never depressed about war, poverty or hunger; a…
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What do you do to stay healthy?
My wonderful and insightful publisher here at Santa Cruz Parent, Parmalee, just sent out an honest and brave assessment of her health. I thought it was a wonderful way for her to start us into this holiday season. Like her, I find it (almost) possible to skip Halloween candy, but then along come all these…
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Every day is Halloween
Last night we went to a Halloween party a friend’s house. My husband’s work is nearer to their house than ours, so he decided to ride his bike straight there, and thus ended up arriving before us. When I walked in, it would be an understatement to say that he was shocked. I’ve never been…
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Back from beyond…
Yes, it’s true, my blog is back online. Sorta. There was a major miscommunication, and now I need to rebuild the whole thing. So until then, please enjoy my blog posts back at my old blog site, and I will be adding more here when I can.
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Scientists need help! Moms to the rescue!
I read recently that scientists are hard at work in laboratories trying to make the H1N1 (swine) flu virus become more virulent. They are trying to figure out whether it could become more virulent on its own by trying to force it to do so in the lab. Some of these scientists may be moms,…