Daughter on Shine

Always the Quiet Ones

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Like a lot of babies, when my daughter Roxie was still in her first year she had a certain reticence around strangers. At the time, we chalked it up to separation anxiety otherwise known as "please don't pass me to Granny or Grandpa or I'll scream my head off."

Mike Tyson opens up about daughter's harrowing death

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In an interview that was both riveting and unsettling, former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson--famous for his allegedly abusive relationship with ex-wife, actress Robin Givens, as well as the 1997 comback fight that ended with him biting off the ear of opponent Evander Holyfield--talked about…

Moms mean business

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by Vicki Larson (Around the Watercooler - Mommy Tracked)

Forget about father-son businesses; although that’s the model still ingrained in the American psyche. Mother-daughter businesses are the new black. I have no idea how they do it; honestly, most women I know have such complicated relationships with their mothers without having to worry about ordering, restocking and bookkeeping, it’s a miracle they still talk at all.

But it seems sort of romantic to go into business with someone you love and know so well; who better than a mother, father, sibling or husband to work with? Whenever a big-box chain store threatens to move in to our neighborhood, we tend to rally around the tiny mom-and-pop store that we’ve been shopping at for years. We love mom-and-pop- run businesses — they make up more than 80 percent of the nation’s companies. And although we often see them through rose-colored glasses as the cozy diner on Main Street or the quaint B&B somewhere in Maine, many are Fortune 500 corporations.