When it comes to making the most (or least?) of downtime, I’m a huge offender. I L.O.V.E. being lazy when I have time off. I…
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They’re playing baseball in McCarren park and I am immediately hit with the dusty smell of my childhood: dirty gloves, pebbles in bat bags, the…
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Have you heard of the email marketing service MailChimp? If you haven’t, and you subscribe to any company mailing lists, I can pretty much guarantee…
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I DON’T THINK that anyone would disagree with the statement that things are rough in the work environment these days. For a number of reasons…
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I suspect that the saying “Absence makes the heart grows fonder” uttered by a well-meaning friend or family member to someone in a long-distance relationship…
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Let’s add a literary twist to an old saying: a book a day keeps the frown away. According to a study commissioned by the U.K.’s…
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She’d often shout at the TV. But she never watched sports. And the only bets she placed were on the inevitable errors of others. Her…
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Shortly after I moved into my first “big girl” apartment in Boston, I caught the HGTV bug. Seven years later, I’m looking for my first…
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At the risk of stating the obvious, writing can be a very difficult thing to do, whether you write for personal fulfillment or for an…
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Every country is different, and while we pride ourselves on being a nation that offers us so much freedom and possibility, sometimes we have a…
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I’m going to let you in on a little secret, Kirsten: this whole notion that women should stay home, nurture, mother, prepare meals? Your mom…
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We’ve all had that friend. You know, the one who always complains about being “stalked”* by some guy that she went on a few dates…
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