The best way to make sure you have last-minute child care is to plan ahead — make this a New Year’s Resolution!
Here are four tips for setting up a back-up plan before you need it.
1. Collect a pool of babysitters. Keep a file somewhere in your kitchen with this list of babysitters, their names, […]
Right about now most of us are lacing up our new athletic shoes and donning our ambition. We will, we vow, get into supreme physical condition. This time we won’t quit. Next Tuesday every gym from here to eternity will be full of well intentioned recovering indulgers, determined to get rid of the poundage that […]
Lots of people want to date and marry within their own religion, race, or some other group that they belong to. For Jews, one of the most sure fire ways to meet someone with similar religious beliefs is at the synagogue!
Try these:
* If you’re a Jewish single parent, check out the other single parents at […]
War veterans who lose limbs as a result of their deployment deserve to be treated like heroes — and treating them like elite athletes is a good start — but it’s not enough.
Psychologically, war veterans who are amputees suffer special psychological and physical circumstances when they re-enter civilian life. Some of the feelings that […]
It’s said the definition of a dysfunctional family is a family with more than one member. In the newly released–on DVD–movie, Little Miss Sunshine, it takes six to incite the riot that will entertain, if not shake, your psyche to its core.
Brilliant directing causes squirmy discomfort from the start of the movie. The Hoover family exists in utter chaos. In the first few […]
The flu season may just be beginning, but many employees are not calling in sick because of the sniffles. Instead, they’re using sick days to handle holiday-related stress like shopping, being with family, or taking mental health days.
How do absences — legitimate or due to personal needs — impact employers and businesses, and what […]
DO have reasonable expectations for the evening. You probably won’t meet Mr. Right tonight, and be engaged six months from now. You will probably have a good time or a bad time — that’s right — one or the other. Your choice. Decide in advance what you’d like to do, and stick to […]
Marriages break up for two reasons — sex and money. If couples are responsible about these two things then they will have a good shot at a happy marriage.
Like lust, romance comes and goes, but running a relationship is the basis for stability that allows lust and romance to settle in and stay. A shaky […]
Don’t ignore the holidays — acknowledge that they will change your fitness regime. Then, make the following adjustments to stay fit and feel good during the holiday season:
1. Schedule — re-schedule. Take an honest look at your schedule, and instead of trying to squeeze exercise into your schedule, don’t squeeze anything in. One of the […]
I’ve been getting a lot of mileage out of Christmas here. Don’t see getting this much material out of Valentine’s Day and President’s Day but Christmas has provided bountiful commentary.
Christmas brings out the best in some and the worst in others. I have one person in my life who absolutely loses it every year in […]