How Does Blood Clot?
Overview Blood clotting, also called blood coagulation, occurs in reaction to a wound to halt the flow of blood. This happens so that blood loss will stop and also so that the wound will be closed and no bacteria or…
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November 1, 2015 Friends and Peers
It was said that you cannot be hurt by someone you don’t care. This also implies that you will be hurt the most by someone you love and care the most. Who can be him? A friend. The feeling of…
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Should the United States Legalize Gay Marriage
Okay, are we really having this discussion? And by this discussion I mean the one about gay and lesbians and their right to marry. It seems like this issue has taken center stage on all of our local media outlets….
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Dating after Divorce or the Death of your Spouse
Deciding to get back into the dating pool after the death of your partner or after a divorce can be a very intimidating prospect. Wondering if you have waited long enough, are emotionally ready to date someone new, and how…
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Menopausel Muffin Tops
November 1, 2015 Skin and Body
Scaling Muffin Top Mountain I’m really not partial to muffins. In the fantasy land of delicate puff pastry, muffins strike me as a somewhat overweight unattractive stepsister. Too dense, no decadent sugary frosting on top, no center core of lighter…
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Love Relationships
The likeness and love are totally opposite thing in fact.Likeness arises in mind but love is by your heart. As mind and heart are two different things, similarly likeness and love differ from each other. Some people think logically and…
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Love Relationships
The “first love” experience leaves behind many memories that will last a lifetime. First loves can never be forgotten, no matter how hard you try. First loves are just that…the first. This is the first time we experience feelings so…
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Ways to Avoid Emotionally Unavailable Men
As I watch many of my friends get married or get into long-lasting relationships, I ask myself “what exactly goes wrong with each of my relationships that causes the guy to hate me and me to suffer cruelty, worthlessness, and…
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Dating Tips for a Successful Relationship
“Relationship is understanding. It is a process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself-To be is to be related. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person” We must form relationships in…
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Friendship Issues Advice
November 1, 2015 Friends and Peers
To become the world’s best neighbor is not an easy task by any means, simply because there are always issues that are difficult to overlook or settle between those that live within a close proximity of one another. In many…
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Gay Marriage in the us and why it has not been Legalized
Two women stand at an alter. Both are in pant suits; one has a pixie haircut, the other has hair to her shoulders. They are the most beautiful when they look at each other, classic love… kind of. Of course…
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How Men can Suffer from Poor Body Image
November 1, 2015 Skin and Body
Men can suffer from poor body image because they are continually exposed to images of the ‘perfect’ male body whenever they watch a movie or read a magazine. Although this has been a problem long-faced by women, increasingly men are…
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When to tell your Friend they have Bad Breath
November 1, 2015 Friends and Peers
People are always concerned with making sure they are in top form when in social situations, pleasant smelling breath being one criteria for being in top form. People are also very concerned about making the wrong impression or offending someone…
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Love Relationships
As Jeremy Piven’s character once said to John Cusack’s character, Jonathan in the movie Serendipity, “You are a JACKASS! You are! You’re my HERO!” This statement in itself is a contradiction in terms for how can a JACKASS be a…
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Why Women should Learn to Embrace their Curves
November 1, 2015 Skin and Body
Nothing saddens me more than to watch a “red carpet” event on television and hear how the reporters just fawn over the actresses, telling them how beautiful they look, when in reality, a lot of them look like skeletons covered…
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Good Times to Start a Date
There’s no time like the present! So, you probably work with this guy. You see him every day. He says hello to you in the mornings; always very casually as he pours his cup of coffee. He looks over his…
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Looking Good at Beach
November 1, 2015 Skin and Body
Whether you are going on a cruise, a faraway get-a-way, or you are just going to the pool, if you are over 50, and readying for the water panic is in the air! Not to fear, there ARE things you…
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Love Relationships
The question is, has love finally left the building? When men who you know to be married with children proposition you with offers of sex or “fun” as they put it, and everyone else seems to be cheating or involved…
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Soul Mates do they really Exist – Yes
Soul mates: Do they really exist? Soul mate, a wonderful term that instantly makes a person think of two people that are completely as one, that were born for each other. A lovely thought and one I believed in until…
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Dating after Divorce or the Death of your Spouse
It’s a fact of life that sooner or later, we are going to have our hearts broken by someone that we love. When a relationship ends, we are left with an emptiness, a void, where there was once a person…
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Friendship Issues Advice
November 1, 2015 Friends and Peers
The truth is this, being a teen today is harder than it has ever been before. We need to be mindful of the pressures you face in this time and place. As adults in your life, we should never underestimate…
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Why Women should Learn to Embrace their Curves
November 1, 2015 Skin and Body
The idea that women should be thin and pre-pubescent looking is a relatively new one. Perpetuated by the fashion industry, who really only want tall coat-hangers to display their designs upon, the under-nourished waif look is one that few women…
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Body Image why do Women try so Hard
November 1, 2015 Skin and Body
It seems that women have always been defined by their physicality. Whereas women can find a man attractive because of his wealth, power, and humour, men tend to be attracted to good-looking women rather than because of any of their…
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Love Relationships
Love is a many splendor thing or should we say things? You hear people saying I love that dress, love that car, I love this house, I love that table set you bought, I love the cologne he has on,…
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Love Relationships
Love and fear. Fear and love. Which comes first? Do we love first, or fear first? Do we love first, and then fear this very loving? Or do we fear first, and then miss out on some of this love?…
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Should Homosexuals Receive all the Rights and Benefits of Marriage – Yes
Look at marriage in the most basic broad terms, its purpose in history, and its function now. Consider your own preferences and the “icky” factors influence on your position. Let’s not forget the separation of church and state thing also….
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Love Relationships
OK – here I go again. A topic we can’t escape no matter where we go, no matter what we do, no matter if we’re alone or with friends it’s always part of a conversation somewhere at some time; Love…
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How Sex Affects a Friendship
November 1, 2015 Friends and Peers
The dynamics of a boy/girl friendship can be complicated already. Friendship, by definition, is a relationship between two people that share a mutual respect and concern for each other. This alone involves some degree of intimacy. If you develop feelings…
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Ending a Friendship
November 1, 2015 Friends and Peers
Ending a friendship is almost impossible for some people. There are some, despite numerous and varied complications in a friendship, who will never give up on it. Somewhere in this person’s psyche, there is the belief that things will get…
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Is there such a Thing as the Perfect Body
November 1, 2015 Skin and Body
There is no such thing as the perfect body size, but this won’t stop ordinary men and women believing there to be. People come in all different shapes and sizes, but because the media controls what images people are exposed…
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Everything you need to know about Dating
Everyone knows dating can be brutal. Minutes can seem like hours as conversations run dry or someone gabs the night away about topics you don’t care about. There are a couple of good ways to test drive a date before…
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