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Keeping Burglars At Bay While Vacationing
Coming back from a holiday to a home that’s been broken into can ruin the entire trip. Morgan Murphy from Southern Living recently offered these tips for securing your home before you go on…
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Holy Lesbian Batman!
I kid you not, DC Comics has ordained Batwoman as their new prime minister for the gay and lesbian community. I heard it on the news yesterday. It is true, Batwoman will be coming…
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Grab Your Sunscreen – it’s Global Warming Time!
Finally, someone has made a movie (after writing a well researched book) called An Inconvienant Truth about Global Warming, that nagging little impending doom that a lot of conservative folk don’t like to admit exists. Politics…
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One Crazy Mutha
A few nights ago, I went to a showing of Blue Velvet at the Belcourt Theater here in Nashville. Wow. I had seen it, in five minute increments, throughout my life but never in…
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Education for the Masses – or a few
As someone who is becoming increasingly disheartened by the public education system in our country (especially since my son has started public school) I get really excited when I find an example of a…
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New Study Suggests that One-Third of American Adults are Diabetic or Pre-Diabetic
Catherine Cowie, director of the diabetes epidemiology program at the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, released new research that suggests one-third of U.S. adults are either diabetic or pre-diabetic.…
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One Shot Vaccine for Measles, Mumps and Rubella Feared to Cause Autism and Bowel Disease
A popular vaccine — often called MMR for measles, mumps and rubella — has been found to have a link to autism and bowel disease. Although the initial research was heavily scrutinized by other…
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Finding Nutrition Facts for Weight Watchers
WeightWatchers uses a tool called POINTS Tracker that helps you keep track of the food you’re eating each day. The idea is that you have a point range that you need to within in…
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Uncommon Goods
One of my closest friend has started showing up to my house in really great, unique jewelry… She has a necklace with a typewriter key as a pendant among many, many other cute little…
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And So Summer Begins…..
Well, we are not yet three hours into our first day of summer (Joseph’s last day of school was yesterday) and we have already had three time outs, two injuries (due to my son…