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The Other Side of Center Parcs

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If you have children or grandchildren, you probably know about Center Parcs. It’s the holiday place where you have a cabin in the forest and travel by bicycle to the main indoor area, which contains a gigantic pool complex. The various pools, indoors and outdoors; slides and flumes; heated and bubbly; with or without waves, […]

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Inspirational Women: 7 Questions with Julie Hoverson

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Give us your “elevator speech” – a snapshot of who you are, what you do for a living, and how we should “know” you.
Hi! I’m Julie Hoverson. My real life job is 15 years as a word processor in intellectual property law, but I’m mostly known for a wide variety of extracurricular […]

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Movie Review: Then She Found Me

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Remember Helen Hunt from Mad About You? Well, in 2007 she made her directorial debut in a movie she also produces and stars in. Then She Found Me is a movie that seemed to fly under the radar, which is surprising as it’s actually a really nice film.
The movie tells the story of April Epner, […]

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Product Review: Yorkshire Tea – Decaffeinated

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About five years ago the doctors advised my husband that he needed to go onto decaffeinated tea. We tried a number of brands and they all had a pink tinge and a tinny taste. I decided that if ever I was advised to drink decaf tea I’d ignore the advice because it tasted so disgusting. […]

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Quick & Inspirational: Chatting with Kristin Hannah

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Give us your “Elevator” Speech as to WHO you are and WHAT it is that you do for a “living”. And how should we “know” you?
Elevator speech, huh. That’s an expression I’ve never heard before. Perhaps it’s like elevator music–the white noise that fills time as we move between floors. Anyway, […]

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Fly Me to the Moon

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40 years ago today, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon, and changed the world forever. Today, as NASA runs special programming, as the international space station hosts the greatest number of astronauts and scientists it ever has, and as people around the world mark the anniversary in their own way, what I […]

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Your Turn: Books on Film

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It’s 4 in the morning, and my husband and I just got home from the midnight show of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. I’m not going to review it here at ATG because, while I’m a great fan of the books, I am generally disappointed by the movies - not that they’re not enjoyable […]

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Restaurant Review - LuLu’s Waikiki

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Last month I was fortunate enough to ditch work for almost a week and vacation on the beautiful island of Oahu.  It was my third trip to Hawaii in five years.  I’m trying hard to make a habit of it!  One of the only drawbacks to vacationing is that you are often forced to eat […]

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From the Editor: Welcome to One for the Road (July/August 2009)

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It’s summertime in the Northern Hemisphere, which makes me think of one thing:  Summer Road Trip.  Road trips are filled with adventure and perils as well as comfort and destinations.  This is exactly what we were thinking when we planned the July / August  issue of All Things Girl is about; the happenings along the […]

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