Bridget Magnus

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  1. Yin and Yang of Healthy Living, Part 2

    2/5/12 5:30pm by Bridget Magnus
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    You will never get in shape through diet, and you will never control your weight through exercise. Yesterday, we talked about diet. Today we talk about exercise. Together they work like two halves of a fitness and health puzzle that fit together perfectly.  Read more >

  2. Yin and Yang of Healthy Living, Part 1

    2/4/12 1:42pm by Bridget Magnus
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    You will never get in shape through diet, and you will never control your weight through exercise. A little explanation here. My office is beginning a "Biggest Loser" style challenge this week, and this post is in support. Yes, I know everybody sensible did their posts on this topic at the beginning of the year. Perhaps this will help those at risk of falling off the New Years Resolution bandwagon. It's never too late to start new, good habits. Those of you who have sworn off diets permanently should feel free to scroll down to the closing bits.  Read more >

  3. Faithful Place: Too Faithful Family

    9/12/11 9:30am by Bridget Magnus
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    People snap the way they snap. Tana French's Faithful Place is a mystery set in modern day Dublin -- mostly on a quiet little street by the same name. Faithful Place is a tired old development of 16 nearly identical row homes. Most of the occupants have lived there since they were born, like their parents before them. A few of the homes are occupied by much reviled "yuppies." And then there's dilapidated Number 16, unoccupied and in disrepair longer than anybody can remember, which has seen the misdeeds of countless teenagers over the years. Frank Mackey left in 1985, became a cop, and tried very hard to never look back.  Read more >

  4. The Beach Trees: "All Truths Rise to the Surface Eventually"

    7/18/11 9:00am by Bridget Magnus
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    If I had to describe Karen White's The Beach Trees in two words, those words would be "surviving loss." In these pages you'll find one heirloom painting, one murder mystery, three missing women, and a whole lot of truths nobody wants to face.  Read more >

  5. "Getting to Happy"? Happy to Get It [SPOILERS]

    6/14/11 10:30am by Bridget Magnus
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    Alright, true confession time. When the email came through asking if I wanted to review Terry McMillan's Getting to Happy, I didn't actually read the description. I signed up thinking it was a self-help book. When it arrived, I realized my mistake: "A sequel to a book I've never read? What was I thinking! Who are these characters?"  Read more >

  6. A Discovery of Witches: "Which" is a Pronoun, Except on Halloween

    6/6/11 5:30am by Bridget Magnus
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    Deborah Harkness paints a rich world around Diana Bishop, the last in the lineage of two powerful families of matriarchal witches. She has given up witchcraft to study -- of all things -- Medieval manuscripts about alchemy. But her life changes forever the week a genuinely magical manuscript lands on her desk and an ancient vampire enters her life.  Read more >

  7. "Nobody in America Lives Like This," Except They Do

    5/8/11 1:30pm by Bridget Magnus
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    Jean Kwok Girl in Translation is fiction, but clearly there are characters and incidents drawn from her own childhood. The main character, Kimberly Chang, is a new immigrant from Hong Kong who works in a sweatshop -- much like Kwok as a child.  Read more >

  8. Mothers Day Blogswarm for Maternal Death

    4/25/08 8:54am by Bridget Magnus
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    The ArchCrone and the ShortWoman are proud to announce a Mothers Day blogging event called the Mothers Day Blogswarm for Maternal Death.    Read more >

  9. Is America Ready for a Woman President?

    1/4/08 2:17pm by Bridget Magnus
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    Please, do not mistake any of what I am about to say for any sort of endorsement of Hillary Clinton whatsoever. This is not about Hillary. The question of whether Hillary Clinton or Elizabeth Dole or Nancy Pelosi is prepared to be our "Iron Lady of Politics" is another issue altogether. You'll hear it at parties, you'll see it alluded to in blog posts and political cartoons. Everybody suspects it is something the political strategists ask themselves behind closed doors. It's only happened on television. The question is "Is America Ready for a Woman President?"  Read more >

  10. Words of Advice for College Students

    8/23/07 3:32pm by Bridget Magnus
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    Hey guys. I know this is a pretty cool time in your lives: you are legally grown-ups; you are making new friends, some of whom are from wildly different places than you; you are either deciding what you want to do "when you grow up" or actively working towards it; some of you are living on your own -- or at least not with mom and dad -- for the first time.  Read more >

Bridget Magnus

Full Name
Bridget Magnus
Member Since
March 2006
About Me: 

I am a research analyst and professional Realtor who writes about the Economy, the World, and other Important Things. You can find my work at ShortWoman.com.. My professional blog is at BridgetMagnus.com. I write about health, fitness, and anti-aging with my husband at Age Against the Machine. I also post at The Moderate Voice. 

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