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Archive for January, 2009

Product Review: Soap & Glory Great Shakes Hand Cream

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Is winter weather causing your skin to sing the blues? Every year, I struggle with flaky and dry skin and even cracked skin on my hands. I’ve tried half a dozen potions and lotions and while some help a little, I hadn’t stumbled on one that helped a lot.  ‘Til now, that […]

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‘Enjoy yourself. It’s later than you think.’ (Chinese proverb)

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Is it just me, or is 2009 already running away with you too? It’s hard to believe that the Christmas hols are over, the New Years Eve party is all but a distant memory (for more reasons than one) and January is pretty much done and dusted. Hmmmm… Do you think it’s an age thing or is time […]

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Your Turn: Self Help Books

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At the moment I am studying with the Open University in UK. I also own up to working for them. The course I am studying is creative writing and the course book is “Creative Writing, a workbook with readings”. It is edited by Linda Anderson and published by The OU and Routledge. This book is […]

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Inspiring Women: Dame Anita Roddick

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The Body Shop is one of my favourite shops. I love the products from the body butter to the lip gloss. Yes, I turn into quite the girly-girl every time I step into my local store. But, it’s not just the great quality and range of products that attracts me to The Body Shop. The […]

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Sound Advice: Extra Protein

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The first of the year seems to bring out the dieting habits in all of us - so whether you are trying out a diet to drop some weight, trying to eat better to enhance your workouts, or following a specific diet, you are often told that you need to eat one gram of protein […]

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Book Review: Bones to Ashes by Kathy Reichs

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My dear husband knows my favourite authors and often buys me two or three books at Christmas. What better present can there be than a book by a favourite author? This book I received last year and I filed it in a bookcase and didn’t find it again until recently. An old skull turns up […]

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Sound advice: Your writing

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I really enjoy reading all those submissions that come into Writings, even those that don’t quite fit our style. This month we have a riveting serial with part 2 in February. I was almost late for work because I couldn’t stop reading it! There are lots of contributions from our favourite writers and some fabulous […]

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Product Review - Leaf and Rusher Tx Acne

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Sometimes you discover new products in crazy and untraditional ways.  That being said, here’s a story leading to a product review for you.  Just about a year ago I was in Palm Springs, CA for the weekend.  It was a rainy and cold evening in January, and my party was eating outside of all things.  […]

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Book Review: Drop, by Lisa Papademetriou

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If you’ve seen the movie 21, or read the book on which is was based, Drop, a young adult novel by Lisa Papademetriou, may seem a bit derivative. Or at least familiar. This is because it shares a core theme: young people making a killing gambling in Vegas, and trying not to get caught.
But the […]

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Product Review: Starbucks Perfect Oatmeal

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It’s the first of a new year, a time when we all vow to “eat healthier”.  But here it is the first “hump day” of 2009 and your busy schedule has left you wondering when it is you have the TIME to eat better.  Instead of resorting to a muffin or other such baked goodness […]

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From the Editor: Welcome to Journeys (Jan/Feb 2009)

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Often in life, we are in the “hurry up and get there” mode. Life is a series of obstacles all geared towards the end result. There is a different school of thought, however, and that is the journey on our way to the destination is just as important as the actual end-point. […]

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