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What would you do if you had less than five months to live?

That’s how long my elderly neighbor has to live – less than five months. She won’t celebrate Christmas this year. OK, so, I am being very blunt today and a tad bit cynical but if you are my facebook friend, you know what kind of a week I had. I don’t mean to start the weekend with this grim thought but let me tell you a little background on this [...]

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Seaweed (Wakame) Salad Recipe

It has been sweltering, smoldering, hot, humid, and yucky pooh! The weather has been acting like a baby with diaper rash! Cranky! And so am I, frankly. But even though it’s hot, we have to eat, right? But what? The last thing I want to do is to be in the kitchen using heat to cook or grill in this outdoor heat. I can’t  tell whether this weather is making [...]

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Thank You Origins!

Epilogue I had fun writing the last two posts about my experience of buying make up. But the most fun part was reading all the comments AND receiving this “Thank You” card from Origins. They made my first experience as a make-up buyer very special. Thank YOU Kali and Theresa at Origins. I will be back for more. (I guess they did their job of getting ME as a customer.) [...]

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How to buy make-up for a teenager. Part 2

This is the second article of a two part series written by my fifteen years old daughter Emily. She wrote in her first article how she learned to “choose” make-up. In this article, she goes to the Mall to actually “buy” her first make-up. On my birthday, my mom and I went to Sephora at a local mall. Make up was going to be my birthday present and I was [...]

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How to choose make-up for a teenager. Part 1

This guest post is written by my fifteen years old daughter Emily, who recently discovered what it’s like to buy make up for the first time. Her experience couldn’t be more timely as “The Story of Cosmetics” by Annie Leonard will be released today. See the video after the article. Many girls start to play around with make up when they are young. But when they become older in their [...]

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Earth Divas Hemp Bag Giveaway Winner

We have a Earth Divas Hemp Bag Giveaway Winner! Erin from Long Island, You are the winner! Congratulations! And thank you all for participating!!

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How green is your orange juice?

This might not be news to some of you but it was an eye opener for me. At least the numbers anyway. I mean, I knew my orange juice didn’t just appear in the grocery stores like magic and that it needed to be grown and transported but I didn’t think about the details of how it creates such a huge carbon footprint. So here is the low down on [...]

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My 7 links challenge for Problogger

Today’s post is a blog related exercise that Darren Rowse of Problogger is challenging me to do. And I happily take on the 7 links challenge because he is a blogging genius who pushes me to continue to blog even if I hit a slump now and then. Anyway, the challenge he proposed this time was to look at my previous blog posts and come up with 7 links to [...]

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