It’s almost January. You packed on a few during the holidays but you’ve sworn to yourself (it’s your New Year’s resolution and everything!) that you’ll hit the gym hard in the new year and finally lose that baby weight. Too bad your babies are, uh, not really babies anymore. They won’t sit still long enough [...]
Here, Home, Hope chronicles one woman’s midlife crisis as she attempts to establish her purpose in the world. While I’m nowhere near a midlife crisis, I found that Here, Home, Hope touched on an issue that myself and many other twenty-somethings are concerned with: identity. Women with children leaving the home and women with children [...]
Writing is my favorite thing to do. As a blogger, it’s something that I do almost every single day and it’s a craft I’ve woven into my profession as a marketing consultant. It seems that many bloggers forget about the writing aspect of their posts in the midst of all the photos, videos, product reviews [...]
The Chocolate Diaries by Karen Scalf Linamen promises “secrets for a sweeter journey on the rocky road of life.” Mixing recipes with quirky stories and advice, The Chocolate Diaries is like Chicken Soup for the Soul…with cocoa. The recipes are to-die-for, although that’s to be expected from the woman who has also authored Just Hand [...]
With my first baby due in about a week, I’ve been thinking a lot about how my husband and I will connect with our child. It seems that traditionally, there are a lot of ways that fathers connect with sons and mothers connect with daughters. Dads teach their boys about sports and show them how [...]
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