by Jennifer Kerr | Dec 12, 2013 | Trends
This past month Twitter became a public company; you and I can owe a piece of the technology phenomenon by buying stock on the NY Stock Exchange. It opened at $45.10, and last I checked, it was trading in the low $40s. If you happened to buy Facebook when it was first...
by Julie Fisk | Nov 21, 2013 | Trends
It was the day after Halloween, and as I swept into a local store to grab a few items I skidded to a halt in disbelief: Christmas trees. Up. Decorated. What the what?!? I almost checked the date on my phone to make sure I hadn’t accidentally skipped 30 or so days....
by Kendra Egeland Roehl | Nov 11, 2013 | Life Issues, Trends
Many people may know that online or cyber bullying among children and teens in our country has become a problem in recent years, but did you know that this same meanness is now becoming more prevalent amongst adults as well? In fact, one source stated that three out...
by Esther Aspling | Oct 28, 2013 | Trends
I can remember my first Halloween like it was yesterday. I was 13 and my mom was letting me dress up as the often feared and all intimidating ‘mime’ to attend a church harvest party. But even with the limitation of being a mute clown, I thoroughly enjoyed dressing up....
by Julie Fisk | Sep 26, 2013 | Life Issues, Trends
There is a whole generation of young women (late 20’s and 30’s) getting cancer — simply because they were “daddy’s girls” at age ten. These daddies* worked with asbestos in the days when the public didn’t know it was scary...
by Guest Contributor | Sep 16, 2013 | Trends
By Noël Fanti One of my oldest friends celebrated her birthday last week and, after more than ten years of gift-trading, I found myself surprisingly stumped about what her present should be. As I browsed through shelves of scarves, cosmetics, bestselling books, and...
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