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Happiness for Sale
January 31, 2011Is anybody happy? I wondered. If the volume of self-help books (How to Feel Better, How t...
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Home Alone
January 24, 2011I vowed to put work aside this winter vacation and unwind, because learning how to relax is the key to greater life ba...
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The Boob Pillow II
January 17, 2011For weeks after writing “The Boob Pillow,” I dreamed about breast enhancing products. I couldn’t ge...
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The Boob Pillow
January 9, 2011We gals have long vocalized our complaints about unwanted chest lines that blemish our otherwise sexy cleavage. You k...
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The Key Question
January 3, 2011While picking up Thai take-out recently, my husband Chris and I ran into friends Robin and Ben who were enjoying their last...
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The Domino’s Effect
December 27, 2010When I was young, before Netflix and computers, Saturday nights meant curling up on the sofa dressed in footed pajamas, ord...
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Holiday Cards: Signed, Sealed, Delivered (and Outsourced)
December 20, 2010December is a time of year steeped in tradition---a time when we catch the holiday spirit, a time when we celebrate with fa...
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Yogi Bear Hunt in New Jersey
December 9, 2010WARNING: This movie trailer may include content that is mildly rude and not appropriate for young children, animal ri...
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Exercise for Your . . . Face?
December 6, 2010An anniversary is a day of remembrance---when we remember how good we used to look when we first got married. It&...
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Are You What You Drive?
November 29, 2010There’s an old cliché, “You are what you drive.” Corvette? Mid-life crisis; Chrysler Town &a...
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The Truth Fairy
November 22, 2010If you were at a party and someone told you that a winged creature in tights would fly to your house during the night and d...
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I Don't Dig Earworms
November 15, 2010Some melodies are hard to shake. They can lodge in your brain as relentlessly as the accelerator on a Toyota. &n...
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Why Did the Camel Cross the Road?
November 8, 2010Last summer my family took a trip to Israel. After my visit to one of the holiest, most magnificent and diverse desti...
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Mallomar Maniac
November 1, 2010April 1, 2010 Dear Nabisco, I am a Mallomar maniac. I can’t get enough of that luscious graham cracker ...
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Stop & Shop’s New Automated System: “Scan It” or “Can It?”
October 24, 2010I was on a routine outing at Madison Stop & Shop when I witnessed a platoon of ordinary civilians brandish laser guns a...
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Facebook Addiction?
October 17, 2010I’ve finally discovered, through Facebook, a great way to find old friends, schedule events, play games, and send virtual gifts,...
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Bah Stink Bug
October 10, 2010What’s bugging New Jersey? Lots of things. Tics, bedbugs, Governor Christie….. but it’s the stink bugs ...
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Raising a Column
October 4, 2010When I created my new humor column---a compilation of humorous storytelling, life observations, and investigative reporting---I learne...
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Raising a Column
September 21, 2010When I created my new humor co...