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Cutting Grocery Costs without Cutting Nutrition
Simple, healthy, and affordable ways to weather the rising price of food
by Karen Collins, R.D., American Institute of Cancer Research
Grocery prices are projected to increase again in 2008 – that’s following 2007’s highest annual increase in 17 years. But surviving these tough economic times doesn’t have to mean sacrificing good nutrition. Some simple strategies can help you cut food costs and eat more healthfully, too.
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7 love rules you need to break
‘Cosmopolitan’ magazine lists nonconventional tips for happier relationships
These relationship secrets go against conventional wisdom, but “Cosmo” believes in shaking things up. Colleen Rush shares seven new rules for today's relationships:
Just because you’ve always done something one way doesn’t mean it’s the right way. Remember how much your life improved when you finally gave up super-low-rise jeans, dating only bad boys, and dial-up modems? Relationship experts say that ditching the following seven love rules can be just as liberating — maybe more.
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Holding Her Head High
Actress Janine Turner Inspires Single Mothers
New Book Uncovers Moving Stories of Single Mothers Throughout History
by Janine Turner
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Nashville, TN – History yields to all types of mothers. Helena Augusta, abandoned single mother of Constantine, helped forever change Christianity. Widowed single mother Belva Lockwood would become the first female presidential candidate in 1884. And Harriet Jacobs, a slave, chose to live in a small airless attic for 7 years so her children could have freedom while diligently fighting for her own freedom and her children's safety.
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Wandering Hearts
by Donna J. Grisanti
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On the cusp of World War II, Raine Foster buries her beloved grandmother and flees impending marriage. After faking her own death, she forges another life intertwined with three strangers. Their lie-sealed odyssey encounters forbidden love, racism, natural disaster, and murder. Wandering Hearts is a romance for men and women who love to work the earth and tend the home. Grisanti documents with skill and compassion a way of life that has disappeared from the consciousness of younger Americans, although not from their grandparent’s. Bounteous, thoughtful, unselfish, kindhearted, it’s the story of people who deserve these adjectives and the hard work that hides behind them.
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How I focused a spiritual lens on celebrities
by Jenny Roemer from Spirituality.Com
You could have called me a celebrity junkie. It’s not a term I like, but on a typical lunch break at work you’d find me surfing the Internet to find articles about the latest pop singers or to get the skinny on celebrity romances. And if you tried to talk to me in line at the grocery store—forget it. I’d have my nose buried in the magazines at the checkout displays.
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A stranger's care transcends a language barrier
by Marta Greenwood from Spirituality.Com
My elderly Iranian parents have managed to live in New York City for over twenty years without speaking English. My sister lives several hours away and I live in London. So when a car backed into them as they crossed the street near their apartment in November of 2004 they felt a million miles from home and family. Critically injured, they were rushed to an intensive care unit.
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What if you could dedicate an entire year to spiritual study?
Imagine how much you could learn about your potential, your strengths, ways you can grow. Now there's a way to do just that-a structured approach to reading the best-selling book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.
A Daily Journal: Reading Science and Health in a Year offers a new level of connection to Mrs. Eddy's internationally loved resource for spiritual seekers. It presents the inspiring message of Science and Health in daily sections, with space for writing insights, experiences and ideas. It includes a section of reading group discussion questions to inspire shared contemplation and study. There's also an online version at spirituality.com.
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There's no "mid-life" in eternity
by Annette Bridges from Spirituality.Com
I’m almost 50. Half a century. For 21 years of my life, I focused on raising my only child. Then she graduated from college, married and moved to another state. Some people experience mid-life crises at this stage of life—I know I started thinking things I’d never thought about before.
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Daily prayer instead of daily binge
by Tresha Thorsen from Spirituality.Com
For many years, I suffered with bulimia.
The binging and purging started gradually when I was in high school and continued into my early adulthood. I would eat and eat—junk food or anything that was pre-packaged and quick—and then I'd make myself throw up.
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The citizen at prayer
a Spirituality.Com commentary
If there is any venue where it is essential to be neutral, it is in the sacred region of the heart where prayer takes place. In this elevated sanctuary, thought can witness spiritual reality unembellished with personal agendas, emotion or habit. It is a place where personal will submits to the unchanging spiritual nature of things and the heart responds with a humble, “Thy will be done.”
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Imagination Training
a Spirituality.Com commentary
When the panel investigating the September 11, 2001 attacks announced its conclusion that a “failure of imagination” prevented US officials from understanding the urgency of the al Qaeda threat, it seemed to exonerate everyone.
After all, imagination isn’t the first skill that comes to mind for job descriptions at the CIA, the FBI, and other protective agencies. Generally, these groups are depended on to rely on facts, not conjecture. And, while it might be a desirable attribute of individuals working in those fields, imagination is difficult to quantify and thus hard to judge.
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About Reagan, Bernie, and Alzheimer
by Shirley Schwaller from Spirituality.Com
A friend once confessed it’s hard to know how to pray for someone trapped in an empty shell of a body that doesn’t work.
“We lost Ronald Reagan 10 years ago to Alzheimer’s,” said more than one commentator about America’s former president.
Another person lamented to me he didn’t know how to pray when his aunt, who had Huntington’s disease, became so impaired physically she could no longer speak, walk or eat. “I didn’t know whether to pray for her to go quickly and end this misery, or not,” he said.
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Images of Inhumanity vs. The Whole Picture
a Spirituality.Com commentary
In 21st century warfare, images can be as devastating as bombs. Whether terrorist “photo opportunities” of executions or evidence of abuse by soldiers against prisoners, instant communication allows the average citizen back at home to be hit with painful images of man’s inhumanity to man.
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Peaceable Response
a Spirituality.Com commentary
People commit offenses all the time. On the highway, in crowds, at work—wherever people get together—there are opportunities to cause and feel affronts. And, many instinctively want to strike back. Movies, TV, video games and such set up scenarios that justify not only striking back, but doing it in an overwhelming way. Even news reports often show examples of “shock and awe” tactics, with people trying to get even for atrocities by committing even worse atrocities.
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The Swimsuits Issue
by Amanda Tucker from Spirituality.Com
"You are perfect…made in God’s image...”.
Hah! I have a hard time buying into those thoughts when I’m standing under the harsh fluorescent lights in a tiny dressing room with mirrors on all sides, trying on those little pieces of fabric called a swimsuit.
When I was a kid, this annual trip to the mall used to be exciting—swimsuits meant summer vacation, days at the pool. But as I got older, the swimsuit-shopping trip meant only one thing—frustration at my failure to be thin, to be pretty.
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"Eternal Sunshine" Remembering the good
by Meg Dendler from Spirituality.Com
If you could completely erase someone from your memory, would you do it? Would life be happier if you could remove every sad memory or heartbreaking event? Those intriguing questions enticed me to see Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
In the film, Joel (Jim Carrey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) have gone through a bitter breakup. Impulsively, Clementine has Joel totally erased from her memory through a new technological process. Deciding what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, Joel arranges to do the same. But in the middle of the process he realizes in addition to losing his bad memories, he is also losing all of the wonderful, loving and joyful memories associated with Clementine.
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Running the race of life with patience
by Sarah Nelson
Once, years ago, when I was feeling overwhelmed as a mother with three young children, I phoned an older and wiser friend for comfort. After I poured out my woes, she told me, "Dear, I just think you need to be more patient." I nearly hit the roof!
Patient? I didn't even like the word! Doesn't being patient mean sitting around until things just somehow get better? I thought being patient meant being a wimp. To be told I should be more patient was not helpful. I swore I would never speak to my friend again.
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The Super, Sexy, Single Mom on a Budget
by Renee Rayles
Whether it's time or money, budgeting is part of being a mom...
The book is a quick reference guide designed for the busy, single mom who has little time to read while running the mom taxi, cooking dinner, helping with homework, and trying to fit in a date night every now and then.
Your 5-minute guide to protecting your identity
Here are 20 steps to protect yourself from identity theft -- and seven ways to clean up things if you become a victim.
Thieves may sell your information on the black market or use it to obtain money, credit or even expensive medical procedures. Unless you're vigilant in protecting your records, you'll have to work even harder to repair the damage to your credit.
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Get back in the game! Dating after divorce
Dr. Laura Berman offers smart strategies for finding romance again
by Dr. Laura Berman - TODAYShow.com contributor
Dating is often a risky and adrenaline-pumping adventure, but when you date after divorce, hearts aren’t the only commodities on the line. Between kids, potential step-relations, money issues and exes, dating after divorce can be a tricky and stressful undertaking.
Rather than delve into this stress, many divorcees choose to isolate themselves from dating and romance. Indeed, a recent study found that 55% of divorced women reported having “zero” sexual encounters per month, 22% said they were “lucky” to have sex 1-3 times a month and 13% reported having sex 3-6 times per month.
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My Story as a Single Mom
by Gail Showalter
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Author Gail Showalter is looking for stories from single mothers to use as examples in a book that will reveal how personalities affect the different ways we handle difficulties. This submission should tell of a situation that you found yourself in as a single mother. It should tell what you did and relate that to your own personality and temperament. In other words, why you did what you did when another person of a different temperament probably would have done it entirely differently given the same circumstances. To find out more about the submission, CLICK HERE.
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