
Most of us already in the work force have vivid memories of practicing cursive handwriting back in elementary school. But love it or hate it, 80% of the states are now phasing it out of the public school curriculum.
What’s replacing it?
Keyboarding skills.
Now as someone who spends hours a day at her computer, I can certainly appreciate the need for students to be able to type…
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I was gathering book notes yesterday and discovered this juicy tidbit reported by David M. Garner and Ann Kearney-Cooke, both experts on body image. Their study reported:
70% of women felt depressed, guilty and ashamed after looking at fashion magazines for a mere three minutes.
And I get it.
Page after page of gorgeous, fit women. Page after page of drool-worthy clothes and jewelry. Page after page of…
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You know that feeling you get when you’re cleaning out your closet and you know you should get rid of something but you’re afraid that you just might need it one day?
Well, I have that same feeling with paper and information.
I admit it. I’m a Clippaholic.
I save snippets of text, quotes, pictures, ads, articles, recipes. You name it. I save it.
But until this past year…
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Right now, we are in the middle of the earth’s sixth mass extinction and it’s our own dang fault.
We humans have pumped up the rate of species extinction by a factor of at least 100 and at least one renowned Harvard biologist, E.O. Wilson, predicts that within the next twenty years, we’ll have become so good at increasing the rate of extinction that the factor…
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For a charity auction benefiting the Umberto Veronesi Foundation, Pucci stuffed its colorful scarves and men’s ties into plexiglass ornaments and created a very modern, ultra-chic little christmas tree.
This designer tree will be exhibited in Rome and auctioned off with a starting bid of 500 euros.
But you can dig out your vintage scarf collection and create your own do-it-yourself version for much less that.
It’s a…
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