Bonding on Shine

I Fell In Love With My Baby... But Not Right Away

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My mother dreamed she was floating in velvet stillness, swimming among the stars. She noticed one of the glittery specks glow a bit brighter than the others. She squinted at the star and knew it was her daughter. "I picked you," she told me, tucking the bed sheets around my schoolgirl…

One Cheese Sandwich With A Side of Naked

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In an effort to spend more time together, cut out expensive dinners/babysitters and get healthier, Rex and I now walk and brown bag it three days a week. On the one hand, I love it. We're facing this potentially scary economy together. We're both busting booty to get home on time for each other. It means he schedules meetings around me. I work in writing around him. We no longer just do what we do in a bubble, then bump like two ships in the night at the end of a long, exhausting day.

7 cheap date ideas

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A lighter wallet is no excuse to turn date night into a luxury. Get out of your sweatpants, put down the cold pizza, and check out these budget-friendly date ideas that will get you off the couch and into each other's pants.

Real You: Empowering Women Through Networking

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How do you network? Is it with other women business owners or with women in the same or similar line of work? Have you considered joining a woman’s organization that would add meaning to your life—and to the lives of others? Here’s the message: Don’t isolate...

Growing up

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"Dad," she began, as they traveled in the car alone. "I overheard mom talking with X (step dad). She can't stand how Y (step brother) is treating her. Y either ignores her, or is just plain out rude and nasty. I don't know how to help. Can you believe somebody...

A Guy's Take on Why Breastfeeding Isn't That Great (and why it is great) -- Part II

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We've covered some of the drawbacks and false benefits of breastfeeding, now here is the good stuff:

A guy's take on why breastfeeding isn't that great (and why it is great) -- part one

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I know a guy commenting on breastfeeding is just asking for trouble. Raising ire be damned, I think it's a personal choice for a woman to breast feed and no one should be bullied into it, especially if said woman may not have the choice. My wife was such a person, a woman ostracized for her...

Should Your BFF Breastfeed Your Kid?

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More and more moms are letting other women breastfeed their babies. Momlogic.com pediatrician Dr. Cara Natterson weighs in. Today on "Good Morning America," experts discussed a growing trend called "cross nursing"--a practice where mothers allow other women to nurse their...

What 18 years of friendship will do for you

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My friend Rod, who I have known for 18 years--can you believe that? It doesn't seem right, that I've been alive for way more than 18 years--is leaving tomorrow afternoon, after staying with me for a full week. On the one hand, yay! I get my house back and my days back and the...

Surprising ways to bond with your partner (that don't involve mud wrestling)

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Maybe mud wrestling or nude volleyball is a tad extreme (or depending on what kind of couple you are, the answer to all your problems!?), but life being as stressful as it is, blah, blah, blah, it helps to remember that relationships take as much work as everything else in your life.