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99Top Ten Passive-Aggressive Gifts for People You Hate
I know it isn't nice to say this out loud, but most of us are faced with at least one situation every year that requires us to purchase a gift for someone who we wish was not even in our lives. What? You...
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92How to Survive a Stay in an American Hospital
OK, yes, the title is a little inflammatory, but only a little. I actually saw an article with (almost) this exact same title in Woman's Day while sitting in a waiting room back in early October. Woman's...
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81Woodstock Turns 40
I don't remember Woodstock. I wasn't there. The stock joke, of course, is that if you do remember Woodstock you weren't there, but trust me, I really, really wasn't there. I was 16 in 1969, looking forward...
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82Classic Children's Books by Margaret Wise Brown to Give or Keep
When I was a child in the late 1950s my mother used to read to us all the time. She read all kinds of things to us: Edgar Allan Poe's poetry, Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book, Alice in Wonderland, Walt...
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95Top Twelve Explanations for Alien Abductions
The movie The Fourth Kind came and went and I missed it, due to emergency family issues on the health and home front. I was going to write this hub before the movie blew out of town, and I did want to see...
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90Bimbo Bashing and Other Inglorious Sports
With the release of her autobiography Going Rogue, Sarah Palin is everywhere again. (Did she ever go away?) The Divine Mrs. P is on the news, making the talk show circuit, in bookstores, on the...
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95Facts about PTSD
PTSD, or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, is a psychiatric problem that affects people who have survived deeply disturbing or traumatic events. Some of the most common symptoms of PTSD include: Flashbacks,...
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83Bright-Sided: A New Book by Barbara Ehrenreich
When I first saw the smiley-faced balloon bobbing across the cover of Barbara Ehrenreich's new book Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of PositiveThinking Has Undermined America, I immediately hoped...
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85Slow Money
Once upon a time, investing in the stock market meant choosing a company you thought would do well in the world of commerce and then putting some of your own money into the game. If the company you chose...
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86Swine Flu in Kalamazoo (for You Too!)
I haven't been writing much over the past two weeks, first because my partner Bill was hospitalized with severe gut pain, and then surgery, and then complications from surgery. Then, after that, when we...
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