Cold Weather Date Ideas
The best way to decide on what to do on a cold winter date is to find out first what your companion for the occasion would like to do. You could make your plan a surprise, but then you’d take…
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Author Archive: Ted Sherman
Remembering Peoples Names when you first Meet
October 24, 2014 Communication
It takes some mind gymnastics to make yourself efficient in remembering people’s names after you’ve heard them for the first time. We all know memory hotshots who have the knack, and after they meet a dozen people at a social…
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Personal Time is Essential for Working People
October 24, 2014 Communication
Everyone needs personal time. We may be workaholics and super-ambitious, but our minds and bodies can stand only so much of stress and time-consuming hard work. Lack of rest and relaxation can be damaging to everyone’s working career, as well…
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Best Locations for a Family Reunion
We just returned from a family reunion in Florida in late March. All in all, it was a pleasure to meet and schmooze with folks we just don’t see often enough. But there were some drawbacks. All the out-of-town visitors…
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Outdoor Winter first Date Ideas
You’re determined to make the outdoor winter first date with that special someone a big success. Now that it’s cold outside, you’ll have to come up with all kinds of bright ideas of how to plan it. You want the…
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Questions a Girl may ask a Guy on the first Date
There’s virtually an endless variety of fun questions a girl may want to ask a guy on the first date. The exercise can be just as informative as it is amusing for both girl and guy, and it can serve…
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Tips for Vacationing with in Laws
Oooh, what fertile ground for a string of stand-up comedy jokes. Jeff Foxworthy and his redneck TV pals could do ten hours on this without taking a breath. If Larry the Cable Guy were your in-law, would you want to…
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A Geeks Guid for Meeting new People
September 19, 2014 Friends and Peers
Calling someone a geek can be an insulting slur, usually intended by people to label those who excel in school or are uncomfortable meeting new people. However, it could also describe many of us who just can’t seem to take…
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Tips on Dating in the Workplace
Anyone who considers dating a fellow worker needs to consider all aspects before taking that iffy step. Some tips can help when romance or other urges induce you to enter into a relationship that may change from associate to acquaintance…
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Ways to Start a Summer Romance
To start a summer romance, you need to be at the right places at the right times. Seek out locations where you’re most likely find the best opportunities to mix with the people who are right for you. Magazines, books…
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How to Make the most of a Summer Romance
Summer is for relaxation, finding new places to explore and seeking opportunities for new experiences. For the young and some not-so-young, summertime is for romance. When it happens to you, to get the most meaning and pleasure from the relationship,…
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Moving on Aftere a Bad Break up
Maybe the best advice for getting over a bad break-up is in the lyrics of a 1930s song from a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movie: Nothing’s impossible I have found, for when my chin is on the ground, I pick myself…
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Ways to Reclaim me Time
September 3, 2014 Communication
Everyone needs me time. Both the body and mind must have that personal break in routine to continue functioning effectively. It applies to the busy stay-at-home mom, who must spend many hours of the day and night with childcare and…
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Harsh Realities Outgrowing Friendships
August 29, 2014 Friends and Peers
First of all, you should never be so arrogant that you consider you’ve “outgrown” someone. Friendship is a precious jewel, and should never be thrown away like an old shoe. Among all your beloved possessions, a true friendship will never…
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Activities to Bring a Family Closer together
Creating activities to bring your family closer together has limitless possibilities. Parents can create many moments, hours and days to encourage every member participate together. The activities may include games, projects, entertainment, parties and other kinds of togetherness. The events…
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Tips for a Family Reunion in the Park
Make your family reunion in the park a most memorable occasion for everyone. Choose an appropriate theme and follow through with solid plans that will appeal to everyone in the family. Some suggested tips may help you put on the…
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Frugal Family Fun Ideas
The poor economy and inflated gasoline prices have hit just about every family’s budget. Consider the costs of the typical family outing. You drive to your favorite local restaurant, and then all go to the movies. Add parking and gasoline,…
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Family Fun Ideas for Springtime
Family projects are natural in the spring, because that’s when Mother Nature shows the way by bringing out the new green on trees and colors of flowers. Your family can catch the mood of the season by creating your own…
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How to Stp Senior Citizen Abuse
Senior citizen abuse is an ongoing problem that doesn’t usually make the headlines. When it occurs at nursing homes and other senior care facilities, there’s a reluctance to talk about it. However, it does happen, and the situation must be…
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Effects of Moving in together on Children
August 13, 2014 Marriage and Divorce
There’s a movie that clearly exhibited all the effects, good and bad, of a couple moving in together with children. The appropriate title was: Yours, Mine and Ours. There were two versions. The 1968 original starred Henry Fonda and Lucille…
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Singles the Solo Dining Guide
I don’t enjoy dining alone, but when it is necessary, I often take along a non-human companion. Sometimes it is the daily newspaper or a magazine. Sometimes it is a business paper I need to read carefully. There may be…
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What to do if your Relationship is in Trouble
For couples just beginning a relationship, they’re usually so enamored of each other, they never even consider any future troubles. They’re also blissfully unaware that all couples, no matter how loving they are at the moment, will eventually have relationship…
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Why Relationships Fail
There are scores of reasons why seemingly solid relationships fail. Especially in today’s free societies, where more than half of all marriages end in divorce, traditional commitments are not as binding as they were in previous generations. Some examples may…
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How to let go of your Summer Romance
Some summer romances should stay exactly that way, ending when the season is over. On a cruise or far-off resort, people meet and find the occasions to be very romantic and dreamlike. However, when they must face the realities of…
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Fun Things to do with your Boyfriend
There are many fun things to do with your boyfriend during the dog days of summer. If your relationship is really close and loving, most of those fun activities are just too obvious (and strictly private) to list here. However,…
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Tips for Choosing Meaningful Tattoos
Meaningful tattoos? That makes about as much sense as suggested meaningful ways to hit yourself on the head with a hammer. The only meanings tattoos can have is that anyone who decides to graffiti up his body has to be…
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Why do People Judge Gays and Lesbians
People judge gays and lesbians harshly for many reasons, but the main one is the influence of the family and social environment of their early lives. Rogers and Hammerstein expressed it well in the lyrics of Carefully Taught from the…
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Ending a Loveless Relationship
July 2, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
There are many ways to successfully end a loveless relationship. In most situations, it isn’t necessary to do it without hurting the feelings of the other person. If you can do it with consideration, it can be beneficial for your…
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Ending an Abusive Relationship
July 2, 2014 Relationships and Family - Other
The most important aspect of ending an abusive relationship is to face reality. Determine when there is no question about attempting to continue staying with the offender. Abuse, whether physical or emotional, is rarely a one-time happening. Most simply: Get…
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How Family Vacations can Enhance Togetherness
Vacations together away from the routines of home are one of the very best ways to bring families closer together. If it happens at the beginning of summer, parents will get the hint of the kids’ great anticipation as they…
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