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“I Googled ‘what to do when your best friend has cancer’ but that didn’t give me answers,” asked my best friend the other day. “What can I do for you?” We were on the phone, 200 miles apart, and she sounded sad, the kind ...Read More

This is a repost of an original piece I wrote for BlogHer.com.  I’m always on a hunt for more time—to spend with family, do the laundry, read a great book, sleep—and many of my friends feel the same way. Just last week I had a ...Read More

A few years ago, at my first BlogHer conference, I met fellow blogger Norine Dworkin-McDaniel, who was funny, driven, and on a first name basis with practically every attendee. Norine, along with comrade-in-arms, Jessica Ziegler, had a plan, and that plan was to find the ...Read More

This is a repost of an original piece for BlogHer.com.  The one thing I thought I had a chance at getting this Christmas was for my kids to believe in all of the magical elements of the holiday for one more year. Santa Claus. ...Read More