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Summer Maxi Dresses: Will You Be Wearing Them?

What’s all this fuss about Maxi dresses?  They’re apparently all-the-rage right now.  You’ll find them featured in every store, and you’ll see fashionable women wearing them around the mall as…

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Best Books for Tween Boys

Tween Boy Book Recommendations

I have an avid, voracious reader on my hands.  He turns 11 next week, and he’s read just about everything he’s been able to get his hands on.  I spent…

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Tom's Shoes

My Obsession with TOM’S Shoes

A while back, I decided that TOM’S were quite an ugly shoe.  Over the years, they’ve grown on me a bit.  I suppose that seeing more of them around these…

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Punishment

How to Punish Your Kids: Choosing Appropriate Consequences

Kids are adorable and fun and sweet and cute and perfect. Yeah, not all the time. There are times that they throw the Mother of All Tantrums (in the middle…

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Money- Saving Kitchen Tip: Sponges

To Whom It May Concern: I’d like to file a complaint about sponges, please.  I find them rather expensive since I tend to go through them so quickly as they…

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Moo.com Business Cards

Moo.com Business Card Giveaway

It’s a giveaway- yay!  Details at the end of this post. I hope you’re familiar with MOO.com already. They’re an uber- cool company to order business cards from. Recently, they…

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Getting Skinny Update

Getting Skinny- an Update- 2 Months Later…

By “skinny” I mean whatever weight makes you feel good about yourself (not actually skinny skinny model skinny).  My feeling is… if you’re feeling skinny and healthy- then you’re skinny…

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A Visit to Joshua Creek Hunting Ranch, Boerne, TX

Last month I spent some time at Joshua Creek Hunting Ranch, in Boerne, Texas (just outside of San Antonio).  I’ve never hunted before.  Ever.  Never really had any desire to…

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Skinny

Getting Skinny and Staying There

So you’ve had your fun with food this year… and the scale is tipping the wrong way… and you’re not fitting into your favorite jeans… and you’re just plain miserable….

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Teacher 1

What Do Teachers Want for Christmas?

Before I took on food as a career, I was an elementary teacher for 12 years.  Here’s me in action back in the early 90′s!  I’m teaching my first graders…

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