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School’s in and busy moms are now even busier. Where’s the time to plan a family night that the kids will love? Don’t stress and skip the guilt. Disney has planned a fun-filled evening that’s complete with healthy and easy dinner recipes.
Join Mickey and friends as they rock, ride and rally in “Mickey Mouse Clubhouse [...]

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Baby lust and infertility prompted writer Matthew M. F. Miller to blog. Later his blog was published as “Maybe Baby: An Infertile Love Story.”
Miller speaks plainly from the emotional impact of male infertility to
the marathon sessions of baby making and get-us-pregnant treatments.
His writing is straightforward, honest and laced with dry humor. (My
favorite kind.)
“Infertility treatment is [...]

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Where should we live? My husband, Jimmy, and I were losing our home in a foreclosure and needed to find a place to rent.
“I’m done with the idea of white-picket fences and the exact-right school district,” I said while scrolling through ads on Craigslist. “We should live somewhere for the experience of it.”
Jimmy agreed.
An old [...]

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Don’t miss The Great Fresno Tweetup 2! This is the second year FresnoBeehive.com has partnered with The Fresno Grizzlies to host a place for local twitterers to meet and mingle.
Summer nights don’t get any better than Fresno tweeps, cold brews and The Grizzlies. Tickets to the event are only $5. (More info here.)
Wait … it [...]

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Lacey ate more than normal for a newborn, but kept losing weight. At about a week old she started vomiting and having episodes of pain that made her act as if she was on fire.
“I thought she was going to die, she was that frail looking,” said Lacey’s mother, Lisa Roche. “It [...]

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Sean Astin gave me gray hair. Seriously, it wasn’t enough the child-star of “Goonies” donned hobbit feet as a grownup in “Lord of the Rings.” Oh no, he had children and is now the star of “Special Agent Oso,” one of my 6-year-old son’s fave Disney Channel shows.
This whole circle-of-life thing boggled my mind and [...]

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There’s life after foreclosure. I know, because I’m living it.
As I sit here, surrounded by flat cardboard waiting to be taped into boxes, mounds of laundry scattered and trampled into soft carpet, garbage bags full of toy scraps, battered and ripped children’s books interspersed with black shriveled and stiff banana peels, I’m relieved.
Yes, relieved.
Three years [...]

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Astrology was boring until I read Hazel Dixon-Cooper’s first book, Born on a Rotten Day. Her descriptions of the dark side of the zodiac were biting, hilarious and spot-on.
So much so, the book needed to be shared. Forget turkey. At a Thanksgiving dinner, I read Hazel’s astrological passages to family and friends. There were affirmative [...]

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ARIES RISING, the first of Bonnie Hearn Hill’s Star Crossed series, was about a teen coming into her own power. Today I’m talking with Bonnie about TAURUS EYES, the second in the series.
Q: I just finished reading TAURUS EYES, and I find it a little more mature than ARIES RISING. What made you [...]

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Cancer. It’s a subject most of us avoid until we can’t. The dreaded C-word diagnosis happens to others, so why think about it? I know I’ve avoided the subject. That is until I met Dr. Mark Fesen, patient advocate, highly-regarded oncologist and author of Surviving the Cancer System.
Dr. Fesen is as tall as an NBA [...]

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Oh man, it’s hard to feel confident choosing products for my children while being barraged with fear-marketing and dramatic it-will-harm-them headlines.
Do we really need a hands-free soap dispenser because the push-top on typical dispensers can collect germs? Lysol seems to think so. And what’s up with organizations parenting my parenting? It was a real pain [...]

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Family night plans? Oh, let’s get real. I’m never going to be the mom that plans a themed-evening with the hubs and kids. My soul wants to, but my schedule, inability to plan and my let’s-just-wing-it attitude red flags that.
Thankfully the folks at Playhouse Disney have a pre-planned, easy-to-implement solution that includes healthy recipes, a [...]