Collection or Hoard? How to Know When You’ve Gone Too Far
Do you like to shop, even when you don’t need anything? Are you afraid to get rid of things because you might need them later? Are you creating new storage …
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Enough is Enough: Setting Limits on Your Buying Habits
We all splurge now and then. When your favorite jeans are 50% off the already-on-sale-price it makes total sense to grab another pair. When a new gadget comes out that …
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Our Strange Addiction to Cleaning Videos
While inspirational cleaning videos existed prior to the pandemic, the number of cleaning content vloggers exploded while we were all sitting home during the shelter-at-home mandate. It was a perfect …
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Tips for Letting Go of Sentimental Belongings
For Jennie, it was her collection of Swarovski figurines. Collected over decades of travels and gifted by family and friends on birthdays and holidays, her collection numbered close to one …
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Love Forty: Skirts and Sisters on the Tennis Courts
I wasn’t an athlete growing up. I never really had the chance to become good at sports. First, there was my size. I was a tiny wisp of a girl, …
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Feeling Good Vibes with Sound Bath Meditation
Meditation is one of the fastest growing trends in the US; millions of people are adopting the practice to deal with their fast paced and stressful lives. In treating stress-related …
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Should You Track Your Teenager’s Location?
The year was 2010, one year before Apple’s ‘Find My Friends’ feature was released. My son was in the tenth grade and had just started driving. So, of course, I …
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From Carnivore to Vegan: My Journey to Plant-Based Bliss
It began with a phone call from my sister. We were catching each other up on our lives– hers as a single mom and healthcare administrator, and me, recently divorced, …
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Diet Wars: Why Do We Care What Others Eat?
A paleo, a keto, and a vegan all walk into a bar…I don’t know the punchline, but I’m quite sure a lively debate ensued. Like face masks and social distancing, …
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What You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer’s
Almost 6 million people in the US have Alzheimer’s disease, the crippling form of dementia that causes memory loss and deteriorating behavioral changes, and two-thirds are women. Symptoms of Alzheimer’s …
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Carbophobia: Are Your Fears Well-Founded?
Since Dr. Robert Atkins published the first issue of The Atkins Diet in 1972, low-carbohydrate diets have been reinvented dozens of times by weight-loss gurus looking to cash in on …
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The Cayman Islands: Beyond the Cruise Port
Grand Cayman, the largest of the three islands that comprise the Cayman Islands, is a popular port for Caribbean cruise liners. Tourists shop for duty-free jewelry, cigars, rum cakes, and …
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Mocktails: All the Taste, None of the Headache
Many of us have been drinking our way through the quarantine to deal with the stress, or sheer boredom, of being sheltered at home over the past couple of months. …
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Meat Lovers Will Swoon Over These Meatless Meals
The vegan diet, which excludes meat, seafood, eggs, and dairy, is more popular today than ever. The US News and World Report’s 2020 diet rankings places the vegan diet in …
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Four Breathing Exercises for Reducing Anxiety
You would be unusual if you weren’t in need of a little stress relief right now. The good news is, that may require nothing more than your lungs to achieve. …
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