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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Aging Parents and Dependent Adult Children
Remember the good old days, when thirty-five seemed terribly old? Somewhere between then and now, you may have been the recipient of the generational curse: Just wait until you have children, and you will know.Or maybe the generational joke: Hey,…
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Financial Warning Signs your Elderly Parents need help
Parents are the masters of self-sacrifice. They managed to bring you up, they got by, made do and kept the wolf from the door without your help. After you left the family home and became financially independent they may have…
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Best Clothing Styles for Boy Shaped Women
Boy-shaped women have slim hips and thighs and a straight frame with little curve. Their main aim should be to create the illusion of curves and stay away from clothes that make them look like columns. Wear printed tops, in…
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Plus Size Clothes – Yes
Cast your mind back to the last time you went shopping for clothes. As well as all the garments hanging on the rails, the shops you visited probably also displayed some outfits pinned to mannequins. Now, while this might present…
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Tips for Choosing a Hair Dryer
As a professional stylist, there are two tools which are indispensable to me. One is my shears, and the other is my blowdryer. A good dryer not only gives me the results that I want, it saves me valuable time by…
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Men and Relationships Breaking the Mold and Learning to Love
I once watched a man and his son in a store on the water front. They were in a moment where the young boy wanted that much needed hug from his father. Did he get it or was that display…
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Why we should Care for our Parents
Why should we care for our parents? Because it is the ‘right’ thing to do. Don’t you love that expression? It’s so black and white, cut and dry – just like life. Hhmmm, not quite. What if your father was…
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Will he still Love that Person Hiding Inside
Will he still love that person hiding inside? I’m a firm believer the reason so many marriages go bad is because a man/woman did not know what was hiding inside the “real” person they were marrying. What most people fail…
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Advice on Lifes Stages Aging Parents
Statistics show that those of us in our fifties are living in a kind of twilight xone era. Our parents are old, and are children still need us. Sonetimes the pressure is more than we choose to bear, more thn…
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Caring for your Elderly Parents
Caring for your elderly parents can be both rewarding and very hard. Throughout a person’s lifetime, there are many stages that parents and children must pass through. If you are lucky enough to get to the stage where you are…
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Real Soul Mates – Yes
Yes, soul mates exist. However, just as babies aren’t dropped down your chimney by storks, so your soul mate isn’t incubating away in some magic bubble waiting for you to come along so he or she can pop out (pun…
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Best Brands of Jeans for Short Women
When shopping for jeans, those on the shorter side should go for a fit that highlights all the right features and makes them look longer and leaner. Pair with wedges or pointy-toe heels to stretch legs out even more. Skinny…
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Should plus Size Clothing be Modeled by plus Size Models – Yes
It seems obvious that plus-size clothing should be modelled by appropriately sized models. A minus sized model would get lost in plus-sized clothes, a medium sized one would look silly, and a plus sized model shows how the clothes are…
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How can i Reduce Stress in our Familys Morning Routine
Mornings at our house also used to be the most stressful time of the day. I would go in to wake up each child, only to find he had fallen back to sleep minutes later. Half-dressed and running late, I’d…
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Love Relationships
When I look at this title, “Is there such thing as unconditional love,” I believe there is, but it is hard to find. One might ask, “Why is it hard to find?” “It is because not many people want to…
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How to get Rid of Oily Hair
Hair that is oily tends to be limp, greasy in appearance, and difficult to style. This is caused by an overproduction of sebum, which is the oil that is produces by the sebaceous glands located in the scalp. An increase…
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Love and Fear
It is true that people all around the world are afraid to love for one reason or another. Love is built off of trust being one of the key factors. In some cases it may be that the trust was…
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Flirting Tips for Boomers how to do what Doesn’t come Naturally
FLIRTING: FUN OR FRIGHTENING? The truth is it can be both! It’s normal to be apprehensive about approaching new people, particularly if you’re interested in getting to know them on a personal level. Interesting fact: Fear produces the same physiological…
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How self Employment Helps Family Life
BE YOUR OWN BOSS Does self-employment help or hinder family life? Overall, my personal experience with self-employment has been positive. After spending several years immersed in the corporate culture, I left a full-time, buttoned-down career to pursue freelancing. This allowed…
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How to Mend Socks
Holey socks are not a pretty sight. Yet they get so because our feet are pretty much under stress all day and by extension whatever we put on them are too. So following are detailed instruction on how to darn…
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Should you let Parents Live with you
The question of whether or not to allow elderly parents to live with you is one that must be answered within your own family. What might be right for some families could be a disaster for other families. Personally, I…
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Love Relationships
How can you draw the thin line between love and hate? These are two contrasting feelings, yet most of us who have felt love have also felt hate in our hearts. But does hate end where love begins? Or is…
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How to Brush Long Hair Properly
Swish, swish go the long length of your hair. You may think that your hair is healthy and shiny but theway you brush your hair may be damaging your hair cuticle. And that hundred strokes a day thing is justa…
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Why are People Afraid of Love
Opening yourself up to love can be a very scary place to be. Love breaks down walls and tares down fences that have been built around the heart. Once those walls and fences are taken down you are left vulnerable…
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Become a better Husband
There’s no rocket science to being a better husband (or wife/partner). Everyone in this world desires to be significant appreciated and respected – that’s all. If you can make your wife feel all of those three elements, you will be…
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Signs of Attraction
Unfortunately, in today’s society, most people have misunderstood the concept of attraction and have this idea that: beauty, physical attraction, and sexuality are needed in order to start some form of attraction between a man and a woman because women…
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Is there a Functional Family
There sure are plenty of functional families spread all over the face of the Earth, however it would seem most are best described as functional in a dysfunctional manner. What is meant by that is there is dysfunction in every…
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A Guide to Fork Combs
To successfully style your hair, you require the right tools, and this includes an appropriate brush or comb for the task at hand. There are many different styles of combs and brushes and each has its own specific purpose and…
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How to be sure the you are in Love
Few people who fall in love will ever forget the experience. It’s one of the things that make life worth living. Falling in love tends to be one of the most defining moments in a persons life; a moment which…
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How to Instill a Positive Work Ethic in Family Offspring
Parents’ will often wonder about how to inspire their kids, and motivate them to be more resourceful and go for what they want in their lives. To instill positive work ethics in family offspring, it is all about teaching children…
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