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• April 2008 - Spring Clean Your Life: 6 Easy Steps
  I'm not sure what got into me last weekend, but, before I knew what I was doing, well, I was cleaning my house: dusting; de-cluttering; bagging up clothes for the Salvation Army... the full Monty of domesticity. My husband, a neat freak by nature, thought he'd died and gone to heaven.
  
  
• March 2008 - How to Say NO – and Mean It!
  Are you a pushover? You know: a person who can't say no? Or, as my handy-dandy desk dictionary defines it, someone who is "easily taken advantage of" or worse: "defeated." Ouch!
  
  
• February 2008 - 6 Ways to Be a Better Friend
  A few weeks ago I got a phone call from my friend Jeffrey, who lives in the Boston area. After chatting for about 45 minutes about his day job (in the health-care field) and his acting gigs (he's a gifted actor and comedian), we moved on to discuss his wife's job, family, the housing market... the usual stuff old friends chew the fat about on a Tuesday morning.
  
  
• January 2008 - 10 New Year's Resolutions to Keep NOW
  1. Be nicer to loved ones. If you are my husband, daughter, parents, friends and relatives... that means you! I vow not to snap, pick at, be rude to or in any other way ...
  
  
• December 2007 - 8 Ways to Beat Holiday Stress
  As we gear up for the holidays, it's easy to feel overwhelmed and under stress. After all, there's so much to do, and so many details - major and minor - to organize and oversee: There are presents to buy (and wrap!); a home to decorate; food to prepare ... You can have a stress-free yule if you have the right tools, and the right ...
  
  
• November 2007 - Gratitude: 5 Ways to Express it Authentically
  Like most crazy-busy women, celebrating my good fortune doesn't happen all that often, if at all. I know I'm lucky, but I don't dwell on it. Not only does giving thanks tend to feel somewhat self-serving and self-indulgent, there's something slightly cheesy about purporting to being grateful. It feels unseemly, somehow.
  
  
• October 2007 - 7 Ways to Boost Your Creativity
  You’re no Frida Kahlo but love to paint? No Anne Tyler but writing is your passion? Or maybe you can’t act your way out of a paper bag but dream of performing Lady Macbeth to a packed house (even if it is community theater)?
   
• September 2007 - 5 Easy Ways to Deal with Difficult People
  There are people out there who are... oh, how can I diplomatically
  put this?... ready, willing and able to drive the sanest, most
  patient person on  Planet Earth absolutely and positively NUTS.
   
• July 2007 - The Divas' Guide to Relationships: 7 Lessons from the Superstars
  Relationships have their ups and downs: their ecstatic highs and their abysmal lows. Navigating your way along this proverbial
  Freeway of Love, however, can be a tough nut to crack. For
  inspiration, I've turned to seven soulful songbirds for their sassy
  attitude and kick-ass advice...  
   
  
• June 2007 - Make Room for “ME”!
  The concept of “Me Time” is nothing new: We’ve all heard ad infinitum about the importance and merit of carving out a chunk of time to concentrate solely on your own wants ... the question remains: Once you make the effort to find the time necessary to really focus on yourself, what do you actually do with it?
   
• May 2007 - Stop Wasting Time: 10 Terrific Timesavers
  With 24 hours in a day, eight or more of which are spent in your pajamas, it’s possible – no, make that probable – that you’re not accomplishing as much as you’d like. Chances are, you feel as if there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done.
  
  
• April 2007 - 7 Ways to Self-Appreciation
  Being “Self-ish” involves self-care and self-appreciation; self-liking instead of self-loathing. It also means that before you can be nice to others, you’d better be damn sure that you’re nice to yourself.