Welcome to the very special St. Patrick’s Day Edition of the Carnival of Family Life! The luck o’ the Irish is certainly with us because there are a wide variety of excellent articles amassed here for your reading pleasure! No blarney — just fact! Enjoy them all! Visit the contributors' sites and be sure to leave them a comme

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How sure are you that your online activities will not jeopardize your current life circumstances, including your employment, or your future prospectives for success? In this series of articles, prudent online practices are discussed. First topic: The selection of an appropriate email address for business and professional use

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Super Blogging sponsored a group writing project which includes a great collection of links! There is a lot of valuable advice collected here! Don't miss these excellent tips! Make sure you check out Social Media Mega Project at Colloquium, which is one of the articles highlighted here, focusing on BLOGGING ZOOM!

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Announcing the Social Media Mega Project, a group writing effort sponsored by Inspiration Bit and hosted at multiple sites, including Colloquium. In particular, Colloquium's focus is upon Sk*rt and BLOGGING ZOOM! Participants are invited to write a post & publish it on their own site, linking to participating host sites or ser

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“Mom, we were in an accident” are the words every parent dreads. I heard them on the phone this past week. This is my entry for Blog Your Blessings Sunday, so you know that all turned out well. But sometimes it takes a scary moment for us to realize just how grateful we should be every moment of every day. We get so busy that we forget to b

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The Carnival of Family Life ~~ Christmas Edition is live! Come check out all the WONDERFUL entries this week. There is a wide variety covering an expansive breadth of topics. Come check out the many posts included and leave a comment at the author's site letting them know how much you enjoyed their contribution! Next week the Carnival will

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What does Christmas mean to you? You can participate in this meme just by reading the guidelines here, publishing your own entry, and then letting JHS know so that she can provide a link to your site! In her article, JHS shares memories of Christmas (including a couple of videos),pays tribute to the late, great Dan Fogelberg and includes an

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I received these in an e-mail and laughed so hard, I just had to share them. For parents of older children, these photos will bring memories of similar experiences. For those of you with little ones, they might be painful reminders of very recent incidents! Let them serve as a cautionary tale for those of you contemplating parenthood! Enjoy

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Do you believe in angels? JHS does and shares a story about her mother's encounter with an angel during a family crisis. JHS believes that angels are with us all the time, protecting and inspiring us. She also believes it was a real angel who brought her mother the "peace that passes understanding." Share your thoughts after you read h

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JHS explains that she began blogging on Blogger since she was a neophyte and unaware of the different software platforms. It was easy to use and effective, but after becoming more proficient, she migrated her site to WordPress. She argues that the migration process but not entirely painless, but worthwhile, enumerating 13 of the reasons why W

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JHSEsq's first reaction was, “Are you kidding me?” Fifty thousand words? In only 30 days? JHSEsq pondered whether to join NaNoWriMo. Are you participating? Why or why not? What is the most difficult aspect of completing 50,000 words in thirty days? The easiest? Share your thoughts, triumphs, frustrations and . . . does anyone else thin

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How is your blogging experience? Does it feel like the cafeteria back in high school where the "cool" kids monopolized certain areas and the other kids were excluded? Or is the blogosphere an open, welcoming place? One blogger suggested the former, causing JHSEsq to ponder the question and share her own conclusions. Join the discussion!

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Is there something you have dreamed of doing, but haven't? A goal you haven't met? A hobby you have longed to take up, but have not gotten around to doing so? It is NEVER TOO LET to pursue a long-held dream. JHSEsq explains how she finally fulfilled her dream of playing the flute -- and in short order found herself playing it at Carnegi

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Have you ever been romantically involved with someone who turned out not to be the person they led you to believe they were? Have you ever unwittingly been drawn into a romance that ended badly? Have you ever dated someone that you would never have dated had you known the truth? Read JHSEsq's true story of the surprising way in which she

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Until you have watched a parent or other loved one slowly disappear as a result of Alzheimer's disease, you cannot understand how devastating and grief-inducing the process is. The author describes her mother's slow descent into oblivion and how she grieved the loss inch by inch until her parent's death was a relief -- and there were no t

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