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Healthy Lunch Ideas: Tips to Build a Better Lunchbox

Stuck in a lunch rut? Jennifer Tyler Lee, award-winning author of The 52 New Foods Challenge, shares simple tips to give your lunch boxes a boost. Back to school means back to packing lunches. With busy schedules and tired kids, it’s easy to rely on the same few lunch dishes and snacks that always deliver.…

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Let’s Change The Way We Talk About Rape

I hate using the word rape.  When I think of rape, I think of a woman being viciously attacked and forced upon. That's not my story. My story is much different.  It happened when I was twenty, freshly transplanted from Canada to the Bay Area.  Lonely and eager for friends, I found a welcoming group that loved…

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Why Our Daughters Need To Play More Video Games

Girls today are steering away from math, science and computers in record numbers.According to the U.S. Department of Education, the percentage of women graduates in computer science is at a 39-year low. In 2012, women in the U.S. earned only 19% of all math and computer science degrees (compared to 37% 20 years ago) and made up less than 25% of the workers in engineering and computer-related fields. Fewer than 10 percent …

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Creamy Turkey Salad Pita Sandwiches

This recipe was originally published by Sarah from the The Chef Next Door. Go check out her great recipes over there! The following post was sponsored by Hellmann’s Mayonnaise. Do you still have Thanksgiving leftovers in the frig? Specifically turkey? I do, and I'm always looking for new ways to use it up! I'm a big fan…