I'm going to post this list for a private reference for a friend to review. I don't want to post it just yet to my larger blog else where. I recently reviewed the list I created before I got married, that I started when I was about 16 and pulled it out for various reasons to compare and see if I had changed any after nearly 4 years of marriage. I ( Read more... )

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TRAVEL/01/21/haiti.tourism.ethics/Read more... )

So the plan for the last several years can basically be summarized as: he goes to school first, he makes good money and then I can go to school. For about a million different reasons I'm not going to get into right now the plan that has been my whole focus for the last 3 years just went *pbbbt!* gone. And the weirdest part is - it feels really ( Read more... )

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I could be polite and cut this. But I'm not gonna. I'm wide so I take up space ( Read more... )

This is an AWESOME article. The mother of two disabled children recommends ways reach out to the differently abled and their parents. READ IT!

http://www.ldsliving.com/magazine/article/2185/Dealing-with-Difference

I just wanted to cross post here as well - if you want more regular updates on me - Facebook or Blogspot (www.fleipaper.blogspot.com) is the way to go. I've already cross posted this entry to both places and those ones have pictures ( Read more... )

So in the last 9 months I have determined the following phrases/topics of conversation are not helpful and should be avoided when talking with pregnant women (or at least this pregnant woman ( Read more... )

A study conducted by the Department of Psychology at Tulane has revealed that the kind of face a woman finds attractive on a man can differ depending on where she is in her menstrual cycle ( Read more... )

So that this discussion makes any sense at all I have to explain a bit of biology. When a woman gains weight (or more correctly puts on excess fat), her body stores surplus estrogen in the fat. Unfortunately when fat stores estrogen it converts that estrogen the two molecules over to testosterone. Now in women testosterone actually LOWERS ( Read more... )