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9 Tips to De-clutter Your Life
De-clutter your life and you’ll have more room to breathe and enjoy it. A decluttered home is a nice place to live. Photo courtesy of Hutomo Abrianto. Kay Morrison is a funky gal in New Orleans. She...
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Welcome to the World, Precious Baby
First, precious baby, we will take you away from your mom, aggressively wash your entire body with perfumed dye-laden antibiotic soap. We will make sure to get all that goopy vernix off you. Then...
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Why You Should Believe in Your Book and Never Give Up: Guest Post by Alisa...
Frustrated by rejection, dejection, and insecurity? Keep going! Dust yourself off. Believe in your book and never give up. Best-selling author Alisa Bowman tells you how. (Photo via Pixabay.) Editor’s...
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Teen Girls Getting Unnecessary Invasive Pelvic Exams
Teen girls are getting unnecessary pelvic exams. Your daughter didn’t need that after all. Photo by Jen Theodore. You mean my teenage daughter didn’t need to have that invasive pelvic exam, after all?...
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Are You Being Overly Critical of Your Kids?
Excess praise is harmful to children, but so is being overly critical. Are you being too critical of your kids? “What’s the matter with you?” Last week we were talking about the problem with praise, an...
View ArticleDoulas in Southern Oregon
Finding doulas to help with your natural birth isn’t as easy as heading to your local hospital, especially in a rural area like Southern Oregon. But if you’re seriously exploring options, finding...
View ArticleThe Case Against Episiotomy
“I told you I didn’t want that! NO EPISIOTOMY!” This was the recollection of my mother as she told me about my birth. On a cold January afternoon over a cup of yerba maté at the Black Sheep in Amherst,...
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Do As I Say, Not As I Do: Majority of Heathcare Workers Refuse the Flu Shot
Flu shot efficacy rates are so low that most health professionals skip the shot. Why do a majority of public healthcare workers, like this M.D., and this one, refuse the flu shot? It’s been freezing at...
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The Daily Grind: Butte Creek Mill Keeps History Alive
ETA: A fire on Christmas morning in 2015 burned the Butte Creek Mill down. The Butte Creek Mill Foundation was formed and became the owner of the mill. The Foundation is currently engaged in...
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If We’re Open About Suicide, We May Help Prevent It
Gabe Sanborn, at grandparents house in Fresno, California in January 2019. Gabe was painting with his grandparents, Ray and Patricia Sanborn and his sister Molly. Gabe committed suicide a month later....
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Two Winning College Application Essays
The college application essay is important. But how do you write one a college application essay that admissions committees will read and appreciate? After all, you can’t do well during a college...
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#FeelTheBern
He unapologetically calls himself a socialist, believes the government should be run by and for the people (not just the wealthy), and advocates for universal health insurance. What’s not to like about...
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Miracles All Around Us
I have some small articles in December’s O: The Oprah Magazine about … miracles. Do you believe in miracles? I write about the Oak Island treasure and the Tunguska event, where strange things have...
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How Do You Encourage Your Family To Become Healthier Eaters?
Babies who eat healthy food grow into healthy adults. Photo via Pixabay. We all want to be healthy. And we all want our kids to become healthy eaters. But according to this report on NPR about high...
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Swiss Travel Writer Ella Maillart
Travel writer Ella Maillart photographed here with Swiss writer, journalist, and photographer Annemarie Schwarzenbach. Photo credit Marianne Breslauer. Ella Maillart was an amazing and inspirational...
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Don’t Say Yes Too Quickly
Don’t say yes too quickly. Read the fine print. Saying yes is a rookie writer mistake. Photo via Pixabay. A rookie mistake I made a rookie writing mistake a few weeks ago that I’m still mad at myself...
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Is Portion Distortion Making America Fat?
Why are Americans becoming increasingly fat? Portion distortion is partly to blame. Are we too fat and too unhealthy? Like a lot of Americans, I struggle with my weight. I have a doctor friend who...
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Coming Up With Article Ideas
Coming up with article ideas. Photo of a circle of colored pencils. Photo credit: Agency Olloweb, via Unsplash. Boston-based Freelance writer Susan Johnston, has an excellent blog post about coming up...
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Good Taste Means Less Waste
Athena holding up the donation envelopes before she mailed them. Instead of gifts, she asked friends to bring charitable contributions A green birthday party? When my daughter Athena turned eight, she...
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Healthy Immunity 2020: The Cutting Edge of Modern Medicine
Given the power of modern medicine and medical breakthroughs, most of us think of our doctors as all-knowing. We go to the doctor to fix what’s broken. We put our trust in them and our trust is well...
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