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By Annie Tucker Morgan | Divine Caroline If you’ve gone shopping for a baby outfit anytime in the past sixty years, you know it’s virtually impossible to enter a children’s-clothing store without getting lost in a divided sea of pinks and blues. For girls, there are flowing pink dresses, fluffy pink sweaters, and floppy pink hats, all adorned with flowers, butterflies, ...

Someone you know just lost their job. Yikes. You want to be supportive. You want to help them see the positive side of their misfortune. You want to buy them a drink. And you should! But please, tread carefully. The time directly following a layoff is a delicate one. Your friend will want your help, but they may not be ...

1) What's Said: "Maybe you're not trying hard enough." What's Heard: "This can come off sounding like you're passing judgment on effort," says Anderson. "It's better to encourage a single person to explore new relationships to the extent they are comfortable and to extend themselves in ways that feel natural and not forced." Next Page: Wear more makeup → [page] ...

Selling a used car on your own is about as much fun as a burned-out transmission. The typical strategy: Slap a sign in the car's window, run a few classifieds and cross your fingers. No wonder so many folks trade in their cars at dealerships. Doing so is high on the convenience scale, although it can come at a steep cost. ...

Now that I’m underemployed and juggling multiple jobs (herein referred to as “freelancing”), a whole new set of rules are in play. This week, for example, I learned that the interview process for freelancers is not what I’m used to; this is not your grandma’s office interview. For starters, they’re not called interviews – they're called meetings. Second, they don't take ...

One of the most common complaints I hear from women is that men don’t listen. Be it at work where their good ideas are ignored or at home when their spouse totally forgets what she told him. Why can’t men listen? They can, if you follow these five steps. So the next time you want to talk to your male ...

If you’re a lucky owner of a furry four-legged companion (or a few of them!), you probably understand the heart-wrenching guilt of having to leave them at home all day while you’re working. Oh, how they suffer. No one to toss a toy around for them. No one to take them outside … or to let them back in. No laps ...

by Wendy Atterberry of TheFrisky Recently, the good people at AskMen.com revealed their list of the “Top Ten Things Men Shouldn’t Do In Public,” which included definite no-no’s like picking their noses and peeing conspicuously, and debatable no-no’s like crying (Come on, what if his dog just died? What if he just watched The Notebook for the first time?). Interestingly, they ...

Last week, the nation was taken on a wild goose chase for a missing child. And wild it was. Kooky, even. This week, everyone's talking about whether or not the Heenes will be charged with staging an elaborate hoax, and whether or no they are fit to be parents. In case you haven't heard (and we're pretty sure you have!), the ...

You start off the off the holiday season by unconsciously consuming a whole crop of candy corn around Halloween, followed by a whopping Thanksgiving meal, and many more days in December of holiday party finger foods and calorie-laden cocktails. No wonder that many of us gain a significant amount of weight from November first right into the New Year. In fact, ...

    Subtitling and captioning prime objective is to quickly widen the potential audience of a video material through adding textual information. But how can this objective benefit the audience? Is there a difference between captioning and subtitling? Amazingly, subtitling and captioning can offer more than meets the eyes.   First, subtitlingcan be defined as a simple addition of a text ...

Ancient wisdom teaches us, we create our reality ~ What Are You Thinking gently brings us to this state of awareness in the present...

Sajida Faraj scoops mashed potatoes and peas onto her plate, not quite sure of the history behind her first Thanksgiving meal. But she knows how thankful she is to be at a church in Atlanta this November, lining up for turkey, stuffing

Hundreds of bargain-hungry shoppers stepped on a fallen Wal-Mart worker, who died Friday morning, after the crowd knocked down the store's front doors -- and the worker -- during the "utter chaos" of a Black Friday shopping melee, Nassau Coun

As I crammed myself onto a crowded train this morning, I noticed there was a very pregnant woman standing near me, jammed in tightly and hanging on for dear life. I looked at the passengers sitting in the seats that are supposed to be surrendered to the elderly, physically challenged, and other people who need to sit, and all of them ...

TOKYO - A 43-year-old Japanese piano teacher's sudden divorce from her online husband in a virtual game world made her so angry that she logged on and killed his digital persona, police said Thursday.

1. In this recession, you are more likely to keep your job. A lot of people are losing their jobs right now, but it is disproportionately affecting us men. In February 2008 the unemployment rate for men and women who had gone to college but did not graduate was the same: 4.1 percent. Today it's 8.9 percent for men but only ...

Gender stereotypes abound. But there’s no doubt about it – men and women are different. And we’ve all wondered, at one point or another, what life was like for the opposite sex. With so much misunderstanding between the sexes, we set out to dispel the myths and separate fact from fiction. Except, we’re shaking things up a little. Instead of the ...