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Style & Beauty > Body Image Summer beauty: Overcoming body image issues: 1 of 74
There is nothing more beautiful than a woman with self confidence. A healthy outlook can cover any number of slight flaws and can help you embrace your own body in a way that could make anyone envious. That is the true secret of beauty: Attitude is everything.While this concept is easy to believe in the winter, with the help ... More..
Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Loss of a horse: 4 of 20
Roses for Silko was just a horse. I'm reminded that by people, when they hear me talk about her. Reminded by people who are not horse people, that don't understand that "just a horse" means she wasn't a champion, but she was extraordinary as an individual, as most horses are." Rosie" was a race horse. Her funny ID pictures fr... More..
Style & Beauty > Cosmetic Procedures True stories about breast augmentation: 1 of 5
I was 52 when I had my breasts done. I guess you could call me a late bloomer.Oddly enough, I had the surgery after I left the plastic surgery field, where I'd worked in Management for several years and listened to hundreds of women call in, lament about their breasts, and price the procedure. They had found a kindred soul in... More..
Relationships & Family > Elderly Parents & Care Caring for your elderly parents: 5 of 22
Eventually all of us will become caregivers or need care giving, but nothing can truly prepare you for becoming a caregiver to your own parents. Before my position as Director for the Center for Positive Aging, I worked as Director of Admissions for an Alzheimer's Facility. The guilt, the sorrow and the long good bye of aging... More..
Society & Lifestyle > Lifestyles Cowboy humor: True stories about horses: 13 of 48
There is a reason why they serve drinks at horse sales. And I don't mean colas. At least that is the excuse I give for my father buying his 12 year old daughter an Arabian Stallion as her first riding horse. Strangely enough, the story has a happy ending.Ibn Saka was a race horse with a pedigree that was two feet long, stampe... More..
Pets & Animals > Horses (Other) Guide to owning and buying a pony for your children: 6 of 15
A good pony is a valuable beast and not a bad investment. When sadly outgrown, a good pony could increase in value. More people are looking for a good pony than an expensive show horse. And, like wine, they can improve with age. Of course this is a generalization and it is dangerous to generalize about ponies, moody creatures... More..
Health & Fitness > Exercise & Weight Loss Best exercise for thigh reduction: 6 of 15
Beautiful thighs come in many sizes, and for the athletically inclined that size may be larger than is dictated by current fashion. We aren't talking about fat, though. Overweight thighs can only be reduced by restricting calories, and personally I believe that you have to restrict sugar, but that's my opinion. Standard squat... More..
Health & Fitness > Pilates & Yoga Yoga poses: Child's pose: 2 of 4
Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of a child in the womb perfectly demonstrates the Child's Pose of Yoga. The pose does more than emulate the egg like shape and tucked posture; indeed, the child's pose gives one that feeling of floating, that lack of resistance and peaceful calm reflected in the the subject of that drawing.I attend... More..
Pets & Animals > Horse Care & Health Horse anatomy: The throatlatch: 1 of 1
A beautiful, clean throatlatch is a mark of elegance and breeding in a horse no matter the breed. Like all things that suffer for beauty, the throatlatch is routinely sweated down in halter horses to enhance the length of neck and set off a beautiful head. This is especially true of Quarter Horses where the full jawline that ... More..
Relationships & Family > Communication Issues Why it's important to listen to the elderly: 20 of 37
The wisdom is in the eyes, and the wit is often sharp and to the point. A wrinkled face can be a deceptive mask where knowledge is concerned. Aging is a natural progression away from being observed to being an observer. There is freedom in losing anxiety over the superficial. If we learn to listen without prejudice against ag... More..