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The Swastika in Our Neighborhood

2/9/12 11:02am by BeyondSiri
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While walking with my 8-year-old son near our home in Manhattan, he spotted a purple swastika scrawled across a billboard advertisement. As I took in the complexities of the situation, my son uttered words that made my heart break...  Read more >

"House, M.D." Is Cancelled. Somehow Life Will Go On. Somehow.

2/9/12 11:00am by mommywantsvodka
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House, M.D.

Today is a sad, sad day.Not only did I wake up and break a nail while getting dressed, but I learned that one of my favorite television antiheroes will no longer be, well, my favorite television antihero.That's right - after 8 blissfully long seasons, House, M.D., will end it's run this May. I am heartbroken.  Read more >

Review: I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You, by Ally Carter

2/9/12 10:57am by leahmsilverman
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I'd Tell you I Love You Ally Carter

I keep finding myself daydreaming about turning back time and enrolling into spy school instead of high school.  I’m pretty sure I would have been awesome at that.  I also loved the pop culture references.  Especially the Buffy and Spike ones.  And I loved the sisterhood among the girls at the academy.  The love interest was cute (if not particularly spectacular) and its always fun to go on the first love journey with a new character.  Read more >

What Kids Can Teach Us

2/9/12 10:30am by Natalcho
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A couple of weeks ago when I was in Bulgaria, I had the pleasure of spending a little bit more time with my two nieces. The older one is at an age where she begins to question the world around her, her critical reasoning is developing and she is starting to appreciate that things are more complicated than she might have thought. My niece only needed one week with me to teach me some very important life rules that I will try to live by from now on.  Read more >

Dealing With Adult Bullies

2/9/12 10:18am by Chivas Sandage
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Bully

As I walked along the narrow, tree-lined, lovely-even-if-in-disrepair road that leads to our little house in our own particular corner of a town I’ll call Paradise, I saw the bully next door approaching me. He isn’t a scowling little boy or even teenager, but the scowling grown man who rents the house and barn next door. “Scowling Bob” rode slowly toward me on his red motorcycle.  Read more >

Hit a Plateau? Challenge Your Body!

2/9/12 9:28am by InspiredRD
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This post is the sixth in BlogHer’s Inspiration to Fitness series.  To start from week one, click here.  Read more >

Organizational Thursday: Making Your Entryway Work For You

2/9/12 9:08am by Organizing Made Fun
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How to organize your entry way.

If you've got a way into your house, you likely have an entry. It may be small, large, skinny, or wide but somehow you enter in one door or another. I want to show you two ways you can organize your entry.  Read more >

Do You Respond to Comments?

2/9/12 6:00am by Melissa Ford
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To respond to comments or not; in the comment thread or directly through email; to use your time to read more blog posts or to hold more conversations... these are the dilemmas many bloggers grapple with, including Sophisticated Dorkiness who asks what people tend to do with their comments.  Read more

You Be the Jury: Ultimate Betrayal or Love Story

2/9/12 2:14am by The Spinsterlicious Life
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A woman marries the man of her dreams. They're a fairy tale come true. Except for one thing -- her husband was once her best friend's live-in boyfriend. Is such a betrayal forgivable when it's true love? You decide.  Read more

"Real Women Have Curves" and Other Ways You're Not Helping

2/9/12 12:21am by jacqueline.allain
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Posting a picture of Sophia Loren or Christina Hendricks on your Facebook as if it were some sort of radical, daring alternative to opressive patriarchal beauty standards is foolish at best, and harmful at worst. Seeing these kinds of images doesn't make me feel good, it makes me feel like being a womanly, curvaceous Venus is the only alternative I have to being super-skinny. The reality is that I, like many women, am neither very skinny nor lush and voluptuous. I have fat on my thighs and small boobs. I am imperfect. Where do I fit into this dichotomy?  Read more >