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The Vision Thing, and a Sunglasses Giveaway

03.05.2012

When I took my prescription to be filled and the tech at Lenscrafters asked if I wanted sunglasses, I said no. What for. I only wear my glasses in my bedroom.

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Sock It To Me: Design a sock and win some cash

02.24.2012

I’m always looking for a pair of out-there shoes or socks to jazz up my outfits.

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Jump-starting A Diet With Slim-Fast Meal Replacement Shakes

02.10.2012

Moreover, I am now ready to shed the ho-hum-how-many pounds that I’ve gained since then.

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More Gifts That Keep On Giving

12.16.2011

Here are a couple more gift ideas that you can do last minute–what! you’re not done shopping yet?–and they have a dual purpose:  pleasing the giftee as well as the person who benefits from your charity. I get the catalogues for Heifer International, which inspire me to wish I had limitless funds and could buy [...]

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What to give the ungiftable…

12.05.2011

Want to make your money do more that just please the giftee? How about a twofer: you get to give a cool gift and save the environment, food chain, economy?

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Fashion After Fifty

11.12.2011

I still get all the fashion magazines but to what end, I asked myself. I can’t wear half the stuff they’re showing; I’m too old.

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Shopping for the Christmas Stockings…

08.18.2011

Even before Sondy willed the girls to me and I became their Jewish mother, we were creating extravagant Christmases together.

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The Louise Log: A Filmmaker’s Career is Reborn on the Internet

07.28.2011

She wrote of her move from film to video in an essay called “How the Internet Revamped My Filmmaking Career” for Internet Evolution.

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The Case for Falling in Love

07.15.2011

“This is a book for those who are tired of hearing that men and women dwell in two mismatched emotional universes…”

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Weiniegate

06.07.2011

Was ever a surname more apt? I cannot resist sharing three links about the much [hmmm, what word shall we use? you fill in the blank] ____________ A. Weiner. For the quite serious news account from, of course, a person of the male persuasion, I give you Michael Barbaro of the New York Times. For [...]

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