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Archive for September, 2009

Product Review: TomTom GPS for the iPhone

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As anyone who knows me well will attest, I am someone who gets lost easily when driving.  Thanks to the advent of GPS, I’ve been able to get where I’m going much more quickly and with fewer wrong turns.  When we moved to New Jersey a couple of years ago, my husband’s gift to me […]

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Blog Book Tour: A Chat with Libba Bray with Melissa A. Bartell

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Libba Bray is funny, sassy, and amazingly talented. She’s also a phenomenal writer of vastly entertaining YA novels, the most recent of which is Going Bovine. She recently sat down with us to answer a few questions. We hope you enjoy her responses as much as we did.
We all know you as the author of […]

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Inspirational Women: Seven Questions with Journalist Maryann Haggerty

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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?
I have thought of myself as a journalist ever since I had my first byline in my high school newspaper. For the last two decades, I have been a […]

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Guest Post: Dr. Janine Talty, D. O., M. P. H.

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It was the spring of 1997 and I was treating one of my dearest friends and colleague, after hours in my clinic after a long day of seeing very complicated orthopedic medicine and chronic pain patients. Ron was a 57 year old psychologist who was scheduled the following morning to have a thoracotomy performed […]

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Book Review: Indigo Awakening by Dr. Janine Talty, DO

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“Do you have a sense that the world is about to change forever?” the back of this book asks. “Do you believe that you’re here on Earth to assist that global shift? Have you ever noticed magical abilities to see, feel, hear, move and transduce energy?”
If you’ve answered yes to these and other questions […]

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Inspirational Women: Seven Questions with Elizabeth Carlesswith Deb Smouse

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You might think the beginning of autumn is a strange time of year to feature someone in the golfing industry, but I’ll be honest: I’m a cool weather golfer. When the temperatures soar to the 90’s, you will find me enjoying the air conditioning. And when the temperatures are in the 40’s […]

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Product review: (the fabulous) Mac Dazzleglass

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If, in a parallel universe, I happened to be Oprah and if I was doing one of those ‘Oprah’s Favorite Things’ shows, then rest assured each hyper-excited-high-pitched-screaming audience member would be receiving their very own gorgeous Mac Dazzleglass lipgloss.
I. Love. This. Stuff!
Being no stranger to retail therapy, I bought mine a few months ago […]

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Inspirational Women: 6 Questions with Karen Weinreb

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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.
I’m the author of the just-released novel, The Summer Kitchen (St Martin’s Press), about a woman who has it all–good looks, great kids, private school, Manhattan pied-a-terre, and a husband so […]

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Guest Post - Author Sandra Dallas - On Lost & Found

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Prayers for Sale, like other books of mine, deals with redemption. I’d never thought much about that until you asked me to write about “lost and found.” Lost and found is what redemption is all about. The dictionary—I just checked this—defines redemption as the act of setting free or rescuing or ransoming. […]

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From the Editor: Welcome to Lost & Found (September/October 2009)

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School is beginning and I’ve been thinking about the Lost and Found at the various elementary schools across the world.  How long will it will be before they are overflowing with forgotten lunchboxes, jackets discarded on the monkey bars, and trodden upon book bags.  Life is like the lost and found of an elementary school, […]

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