The D-Word: Divorce Through A Child’s Eyes

See divorce through the eyes of a child

Review and Giveaway Divorce coach, blogger and author Tara Eisenhard has experienced divorce both as a child and a spouse and she’s now packed her experience and wisdom into The D-Word, Divorce Through A Child’s Eyes. The D-Word is written for parents who are facing divorce and ideally they would read this before talking to [...]

Children and Divorce Video Review and Giveaway

Children and Divorce video from Professor Child

The Holiday season is here. We’re in the thick of it and along with all the shopping, the travel, the family get-togethers and the festivities, there are couples who are resolutely keeping the lid on their decision to divorce because they don’t want to spoil the Holidays for their children. That’s just one example of [...]

Been There. Not Done Yet Review and Giveaway

Been There. Not Done Yet

Back in August when I was at the BlogHer conference in New York I attended a PR event hosted by the BoomBox Network. There, one particular product caught my eye – a line of T-shirts with the inspirational messages, “Been There. Not Done Yet.” and “live age-lessly.” Just recently I caught up with ndy® creator [...]

Two Parents One Plan Review and Giveaway

Two Parents One Plan

I’ve recently connected with Empowering Parents and the Legacy Publishing Company which offers a number of parenting programs. I was asked to review its program Two Parents One Plan and I have one copy of the program to giveaway. First, let me say I’ve done a couple of parenting programs in the past including one offered [...]

Estroven Menopause Product Giveaway

Estroven Menopause Products

In addition to being National Disaster Preparedness month, September is also National Menopause Awareness month. At the Blogher 2012 conference I went to in August there were a number of companies promoting menopause-related products and encouraging bloggers to talk about “the change.” I’m very conscious that these companies all stand to gain from what could [...]

Give the gift of a picnic

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Browsing 1001 Picnic Baskets.com for ideas for Christmas gifts, I came across this wine case: Called the Escape from the Platinum Collection, this case has a hard outer shell which I like – it’ll help protect that special bottle of wine from knocks and you can be sure that you’ll arrive at your destination with [...]

Putting the Joy into Christmas Cards

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Yeap .. it’s that of time of year again although I expect some of you are way ahead of me and already have your cards ordered or even purchased. Not me … I’m just beginning to feel the panic of not having even chosen the photo to use this year let alone the card design. [...]

Talalay Pillow Giveaway

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THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED This past week, I’ve been testing a Leggett & Platt Talalay Latex pillow and although it’s been an adjustment I am now a big fan. Before I tell you about the pillow, let me explain that Leggett & Platt is to mattresses what Intel is to PCs. It manufactures mattress [...]

Magnetic Partners: Why what attracts us also tears us apart

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Having just finished Susan’s series, it’s a good time to post a book review for Magnetic Partners: Discover How the Hidden Conflict That Once Attracted You to Each Other is Now Driving You Apart, by Stephen J. Betchen (Free Press, May 2010). The fun part about this too is I have copies of the book [...]

Hanes Earth Day Giveaway

Congratulations to @Bucksome from Bucksome Boomer’s Journey to Retirement – Bucksome won the random drawing for the Hanes eco-friendly Earth Day T-shirt. Her current post is about birthday freebies since April is her birthday month. Happy Birthday – I hope you enjoy this surprise present. And by an odd coincidence, Bucksome and I are going [...]