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Tips to Help You Choose to Be Healthy

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There is knowing what you need to do to be healthy and then there is doing it. And that’s just the rub for most of us, isn’t it?  We know what we need to do.  We rationalize not doing it for a moment, and that landslides into every…
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Vivan Las Surrealistas!

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This post is in honor of Las Surrealistas, a group of female artists that include Frida Kahlo.  As mothers we have many titles—nurturer, chef, cleaning lady, chauffeur, analyst, accountant, tutor, cheerleader, so-and-so’s mother, etc.…
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Teaching My Son to Break the Rules!

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Like most moms, I have tried to teach my son to play by the rules in life. This includes team sports, which I must confess to having known very little about until I found myself raising a bundle of budding testosterone who loves basketball…
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Party Recipes with Latin Flavor

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With the Super Bowl, Grammys and Oscars all happening this month, there will be parties across the land. Regardless of whether you love football more than music or movies or vice versa, we’ve cooked up a menu that will work for any party.…
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5 Things Jeremy Lin of "Linsanity" Teaches Women

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Jeremy Lin has literally risen from obscurity into an overnight sensation. My Twitter feed and headlines flowed with Lin lingo: Be my VaLINtine, The Knicks Lin again, newfound followers call themselves Linatics—you get it. And I can’t…
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Why Women’s Magazines Are Detrimental To Your Self-Esteem

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My stepdaughter recently asked us to buy magazines for her Girl Scout troop. My partner Joseph and I agreed, and she sent us a list of options and an order form. Joe and I decided we’d each choose one subscription. He made his choice quickly,…

Best Latino Vids of 2011

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We first fell in love with single dad Jorge Narvaez and his adorable six-year-old daughter Alexa almost exactly one year ago when their first YouTube video went viral. Their heartfelt cover of Home by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros was…
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Teach Kids How to Fight Possible Abduction

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Many of us were amazed by the strength and smarts of 9-year-old Calysta Cordova, the Colorado girl who outsmarted her abductor by calling 911 and making a scene in a convenience store to call attention to her situation. You may recall that…
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Real Romance: A Single Latina’s Quest for True Love

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Yep. Here it is: early February the time of year that, in the past, has induced a gag reflex in me and the burning desire to crane-kick random strangers in the style of Mr. Miyagi. A time when everything suddenly goes all shades of pink,…