How Does Blood Clot?
Overview Blood clotting, also called blood coagulation, occurs in reaction to a wound to halt the flow of blood. This happens so that blood loss will stop and also so that the wound will be closed and no bacteria or…
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Competition between Women
August 17, 2015 Friends and Peers
What happens to best friends in a love triangle? Can a female friendship be secured from the threat of competition? When I was at school I had a best girl-friend Helen. She joined our class at 9th grade. She came…
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Caring for your Elderly Parents
Several years ago my father passed away suddenly from a heart attack and my mother lived alone for a couple of years. But, as time passed she started becoming very forgetful; so I thought it was best for her not…
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Dealing with Aging Parents Helping your Adult Child
By the age of 50, you might be forgiven for heaving a sigh of relief and dusting off the holiday brochures. You have worked hard, your children are grown, with homes of their own, your parents are comfortable. Take off…
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How to Buy Slimming Swimwear
When swimsuit season rolls around, arm yourself with this guide and look your best in a little piece of material that is high in attitude! No matter what your shape it is important to hold your body with confidence. Slouching…
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Popcorn Theory of Dating
Many articles have been written on how to choose the right mate in life, but I feel that the popcorn theory is usually quite reliable. Most couples when dating occasionally go to a movie theater or watch a DVD at…
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How to Care for Denim Jeans
Denim’s original purpose, because of its strength and durability, was strictly used for work clothes. Manufacturers, such as Levi Strauss and Lee, created the best in denim work clothes for the industrial sector. The beat generation swaggered in blue jeans…
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Caring for your Elderly Parents
Loving your elderly parents is not enough. It takes much, much more. There are difficulties and benefits when Elderly Parents and Adult Children need to learn how to live together again. What to do – when – you are the…
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Growing your Hair
A funny thing happened to me this morning as I was attempting to make myself look presentable enough to go out for a bit of shopping. As I stood there staring at my pale reflection in the bathroom mirror, I…
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Love and keep your Man
Hi, all you ladies. All I can say is if you have a man in your life, to keep him you have to please him. Obviously, I do not speak for all the ladies out there, but as far as…
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Finding the right Retirement Home
“There is a time for everything under the sun” We cannot avoid the inevitable. We are born, we live , we age and we die Somewhere in that process exists the painful task of deciding the future of your loved…
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Aging Parents never never Land Children and how to Handle the Squeeze at 50
“Never-Never land, the squeeze at 50, and how to handle the children? I am 50 now and my husband 57 and we have dealt with a couple of issues over the past few years. Reality sets in, sometimes slowly, sometimes…
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What it Means to Love Uncondtionally
To love unconditionally has a two-fold nature. As the love involves you and another, you must have character traits that you demonstrate for both you and the other person. Loving someone unconditionally with regards to yourself means that you will…
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Tips for Buying Clothes Online
As both a clothing addict and a frequent online shopper, I’ve been forced to have to learn tips and get helpful advice from friends. When I first started shopping online, I learned the paying basics from buying little art cards…
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Elderly Care why you should keep your Parents out of Nursing Homes
Nursing home abuse and neglect has risen to unacceptable levels as helpless elderly patients end up in abusive nursing homes and suffer daily at the hands of an over worked, underpaid staff. Are your parents suffering the abuse of an…
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Finding the right Retirement Home
Retirement – the idea can be either awesomely intimidating or warmly comforting, all depending on what kind of cultural/home environment we are living in and to what extent we are prepared for the day when we need to make a…
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How to Care for Permed Hair
A trip to the salon can be fun and exciting, especially when having your hair permed or dyed. A new look, a new you, gives you the opportunity to shine. If you are just adding extra body or a ton…
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How to know if a Date is going well Tips Telling if a Date is going well Dating Tips Date Advice
Dating can be tricky. The experiences vary from person to person and from one situation to another. Anxiety, confusion and discomfort can hinder you from telling whether the date is going well. The signs of a good experience are actually…
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How to Save Money on Clothes
We all want to look fashionable and have nice, new clothes. However, it is common for designer clothes to be priced at levels that most middle-class people would consider expensive or even outrageous. Sometimes this does not deter a shopper. …
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Love Relationships
Often adults deride youth when they say they are in love, or even hint at it though teen love is extremely real, and those first experiences often stay within the mind for the rest of a person’s life. These are…
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Basic Hair Care from Frizzy and Fried to Smooth and Silky
A beautiful head of hair is an important physical asset. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most abused. From coloring to relaxing, straightening to hot rolling, it is no wonder frizzy, fried hair – tops the list of common…
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Celebrity Hair Care Secrets
If celebrities put their pants on, one leg at-a-time, just like the rest of us, then why does their hair look flawless in every single paparazzi picture, no matter where or when it is taken? Whether I spend five minutes…
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What is Elder Abuse
Everybody has heard of child abuse but how many are familiar with the term Elder Abuse’? Elder abuse is as prevalent as child abuse but much less publicized. It occurs in five different forms – physical, emotional, sexual, financial or…
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Dating Tips for a Successful Relationship
Trying for a successful relationship means that one wants to be committed to that one partner, right? Therefore, be truthful. Do not lie about yourself especially if you are a guy. Lying turns a woman off and makes women hate…
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Patch Jeans
With the economy the way it is, it just makes sense to get all the wear you can out of clothes. Children can be especially hard on their pants, and even though “distressed” jeans can be popular, winter is not…
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Basic Wardrobe
A magazine article once declared that the most basic wardrobe a woman needs consists of 80 something items. That is a bit too many for starters perhaps, you think? Not to worry. Here are 14 items that you really, really…
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Tips to Protect Seniors from Fraud
Senior adults have been targeted as easy victims in a number of different scams for the last two decades now, and it’s only getting worse. Instead of just stealing money from them or ripping them off, con artists are now…
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How to Save Money on Clothes
What if you could get a pair of jeans for under ten dollars? What if you could pay less for clothes from department stores than you would where you’d buy groceries? You can, and it’s easy. You just have to…
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Love at 15
Fifteen is a difficult age. You are on the brink of being adult yet too far away to have the freedom of driving. You have parents at home and teachers at school to boss you around. Not only do you…
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Love Relationships
I love you unconditionally. These words are probably the most frequently spoken, yet so few truly know the impact they carry. Their meaning is invaluable, and to do so requires giving your heart, mind, body and soul to another in…
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Saying i Love you too much Overcommunication – Yes
Expression of affection and feelings of love can take many shapes and forms. There are those that feel it is best expressed through spoken words, those that express it through writing and then even those that express it through acts…
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