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How to Light up your Backyard Party
Every year, we host a big Victoria Day fireworks party. For my American friends this means that yes, we celebrate the birthday of a long dead English Queen, but well take our holidays where we can get them. This past Victoria Day we hosted one hundred of our closest friends and neighbours (an annual event at our place) and even managed to relax and enjoy it ourselves! With July just around the corner and …
Girls: One of the Fastest-Growing Sports Markets — and Most Ignored
Last August, a girl made sports headlines. Mo’ne Davis, 13, appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated after she became the first girl to pitch a shutout game in Little League World Series history. Wait a minute. A teenaged girl on the cover of SI. Not wearing a bikini? Another young female athlete also recently made the news.…
What’s In Your Inner Beauty Bag?
While Facebook is not the most comprehensive look at a persons life, you often learn a lot about priorities and patterns examining social media posts. Me? Youd learn that Im passionate about autism, my writing, my family and my friends. May sound like an amateur move, but I thought Id poke around the Facebook page of Felita Harris, Senior Vice President of Global Sales for Donna Karan New York, before diving …
Do You Suffer From Blogger Elbow?
As a professional blogger and an amateur stay-at-home mom, I seem to develop a new ailment almost daily: swollen ankles from sitting all day, carpal tunnel from typing all day, busted eardrums from listening to Dora the Explorer all day. Seriously, Dora needs to explore her “inside voice.”
Here’s To The “Terrible” Wonderful Parents!
Okay I admit it – one of my illicit joys is keeping a secret tally of other parents annoying, infuriating, embarrassing helicopter mistakes. From bearing my soul in Mommy WarsI discovered that other parents – in particular, other moms –