Tome of the Mommy: The Fighting of the Tree
For some of us, holiday rituals are our happiest memories. For others, they are the flint that sparks our greatest fears. Maybe memories of unhappy holidays past haunt us. Or maybe we stress out at the...
View ArticleI Got Married and Other Mistakes #3: Message from Hell
Previous Panel Cartoonist Barbara Slate has her pencil on the pulse of every woman’s nightmare: life without love. Her slant on relationships is a bittersweet bonbon. She has created characters for...
View ArticleI Got Married and Other Mistakes #4: Mommy Dearest
Previous Panel Cartoonist Barbara Slate has her pencil on the pulse of every woman’s nightmare: life without love. Her slant on relationships is a bittersweet bonbon. She has created characters for...
View ArticleDuchess Digest: Five Friends You Need!
We all know the saying, “Friends are the family you get to choose.” And we all know friends in our life that are so amazing we love them like our family. I have always known friendships were important...
View ArticleMother’s Day: What We Really Learn from Our Parents
Josie’s mother, at nineteen Years ago on Mother’s Day weekend, I buried my own mom. It was a bittersweet occasion. She’d been ill for the last two years of her life: with a myelodysplasia, a disease...
View ArticleDuchess Digest: Three Lessons When Life Sucks
There are times in life when stuff simply sucks. You know there are people far less fortunate in life than you are (although you know those who are far more fortunate as well). You know that there are...
View ArticleHome for the Holidays…or Maybe Not
Scores of single women around the country are selecting Thanksgiving recipes, booking travel arrangements for December—and trying not to think about yet another year of being cornered in the kitchen by...
View ArticleI Want What She’s Got! Creating an Outrageous Life
One of the best things about this time of year is the clean slate feeling we get when the New Year rolls around. This “fresh start” energy makes excellent fuel and motivation to get on with the...
View ArticleReducing Holiday Meal Frenzy
Is it your turn to host the holiday dinner this year? Lucky You! The holiday season can be stressful enough without the extra added pressure of making one of the “big” holiday meals for 15 of your...
View ArticleTelltale Signs of Nursing Home Abuse
It’s a loving adult daughter’s worst nightmare: She chose the wrong care facility for her elderly parent. Stories of of abuse and neglect in nursing homes runs rampant. Your memories of the love and...
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