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Life Lessons: Karen Moline

By   /  September 14, 2012  /  Career, Family & Home, Life Lessons, The Latest  /  No Comments

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Today’s Life Lessons subject is someone very dear to me. Karen Moline and I met years ago, thrust together by an agent who thought we might work well together on a then, unnamed book project. The agent was right; we DID work well together and the result was, Good Enough Mother, The Perfectly Imperfect Book [...]

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Life Lessons: Roberta Lasky

By   /  September 12, 2012  /  Career, Family & Home, Life Lessons, The Latest  /  No Comments

Roberta Lasky Life Lessons

Are you happy at the moment? YES!  Over the moon.  My husband, kids, me, my mother, my brother and cats are happy and healthy.  What more could I ask for? If you could go back and say anything to your 16-year-old self now – what would it be? Do not worry, especially about what people [...]

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Monday Morning Motivation: 3 Ways To Make The Most Out Of The Life You DIDN’T Plan!

By   /  August 27, 2012  /  Career, Family & Home, GEM Approved, The Latest  /  6 Comments

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  Monday Morning Motivation: 3 Ways To Make The Most Out Of The Life You DIDN’T Plan!  I’ve been a bit introspective this month, thinking about how far we’ve come over the course of the last year. To say it’s been light years would be a bit of an understatement. We’re on the cusp of [...]

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Life Lessons: Natalie Pabon

By   /  August 24, 2012  /  Family & Home, Life Lessons, The Latest  /  No Comments

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    Are you happy at the moment? I am happy in my own way. I am content with life and excited about the future, but I still have a ways to go before I hit “happiness” by societies standards. If you could go back and say anything to your 16-year-old self now – what [...]

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Life Lessons: Tricia Oakes

By   /  August 23, 2012  /  Career, Family & Home, Life Lessons, The Latest  /  1 Comment

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Are you happy at the moment? Not to steal Rene’s moniker, but I’m good enough. Nothing is terrible, but I feel like I’m struggling a lot with the, “Is this it?” question. Degrees, marriage, house in the ‘burbs, kids. Is this it? Trying to figure out how to convert on the goals I have for [...]

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Life Lessons: Sara Varney

By   /  August 17, 2012  /  Family & Home, Health & Beauty, Life Lessons, The Latest  /  No Comments

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Are you happy at the moment? Happy? Yes, but more importantly I am grateful for where and who I am in this moment. If you could go back and say anything to your 16 year old self now – what would it be? “This too shall pass.” At 16 I was clinically depressed, suicidal, and [...]

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Life Lessons: Shelby Knox

By   /  August 15, 2012  /  Career, Family & Home, Life Lessons, The Latest  /  1 Comment

Are you happy at the moment? Yes, because I’m finally learning that happiness doesn’t equal perfection. I’m starting to trust that I do know what I want and how to get it and take concrete steps toward my goals. Right now, I’m focusing on loving the stumbles as much as I love the triumphs because [...]

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Our Story Begins: Why I’m Teaching My Kid To Face Reality, Not Chase Reality (TV)

By   /  August 12, 2012  /  Family & Home, GEM Contributors, Our Story Begins, The Latest, Travel  /  3 Comments

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I took a random look this week at my iTunes store. Checking through the list of shows that are most popular on the Apple site was more than a little disconcerting.  Show upon show in the menu spelled out “reality” show after “reality” show. I place the word in quotes because there’s absolutely, positively, nothing [...]

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Life Lessons: Ellen Gerstein

By   /  August 3, 2012  /  Career, Family & Home, Life Lessons, The Latest  /  1 Comment

Whoo Hoo!  BlogHer12 is seriously in effect now.  It’s all about learning something from each other, right?  Ellen Gerstein is like family in these parts.  I (Ella, the assistant.  Rene is BlogHer12′ing) met Ellen at Disney Social Media Moms where we gushed over Rene, snarked and compared notes about speakers and discussed what real pizza [...]

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Life Lessons: Kelli Williams

By   /  August 2, 2012  /  Family & Home, Life Lessons, The Latest  /  No Comments

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Hi, BlogHers! How excited are you to be in NYC and surrounded by all this phenomenal blogging talent?  Well, we wanted to give you guys a chance to meet your fellow BlogHers here.  Share a few Life Lessons with women who are taking time out this week to broaden their horizons and see what’s new [...]

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