It isn’t news that food prices are spiraling out of control. What makes it worse is that other living expenses are also climbing into the stratosphere, causing most families to look at their grocery budgets to see where they can make cuts to save money. While it’s necessary to take a hard line during these troubling financial times, you don’t want to have to...
It can be hard to start over and make new friends. When you move, yes, you still have your friends “back home” and you keep in touch with them, but you need to make new friends, too — friends that live near you, have similar interests as you, and that will help you out when you...
If you don’t have a huge budget for decorating, that doesn’t mean you have to come home to the same exact surroundings every single day. If you’re bored with how your home looks, change it! It doesn’t take that much effort, and it doesn’t even have to cost any money unless you want it to. Moving...
When I first started learning about the chemicals found in most makeup, I was appalled. I knew that beauty products weren’t perfect, but I couldn’t believe that a few common ingredients found in the vast majority of makeup brands were seriously detrimental to my health! Alas, it gets worse. Because product labels and advertising can be...
If you’re like most women, you’ve undoubtedly asked yourself at one time or another if what you’re feeling towards someone you’re dating could be love. Let’s face it, the dating world is already complicated — and it’s not getting any easier! To further complicate matters, our emotions don’t always make themselves clear. So, love vs. lust...
We had come just so far in the family counseling process. The sixteen-year-old daughter was no longer hitting her ten-year-old brother or her mother, mom wasn’t crying and laying in bed all day long anymore, and dad was making a concerted effort to come home in time for dinner each night. Even with all the progress,...
The most important objective of the keto diet is to enable your body to get into the metabolic condition, which is also known as ketosis. The ketosis diet comprises of low-carb and high-fat food consumption. One of the effects of this diet is raising the levels of ketones in your blood and urine. Once you get...
So you’ve met someone, and it’s going really well, but… they live far away. Maybe in another part of the country, or perhaps in another country altogether. Most of your friends tell you you’re crazy for sticking with it, that it’ll never work, and that you may as well bail out now before it ends in...
