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Morning! I’m Alive!!! First up today, I wanted to direct you to a super fun interview I did over at Health Blog Helper ! I answered questions like : Lessons I have learned from blogging How many hours a week I spend blogging Tips for a successful blog Why I started Oh She Glows Mistakes I have made and more! Health Blog Helper is the newest website to hit the healthy living blogosphere . Matt, the author of Health Blog Helper (and also of No Meat Athlete) and Alison from Mama’s Weeds teamed up to do the interview.  Matt created HBH to help health bloggers with the blogging aspect of their blogs and offer advice on what they can do to improve their skills, content, site set up and more. I absolutely love Matt ’s approach to this blog. Matt gives you amazing tips on improving traffic to your blog, but he does it in a manner that is totally modest , caring, and humble . That is a really hard thing to do, but he does it well. ~~~~~ Thank you all for your congrats yesterday. Blew me awa...

Congregation Beth Israel Events WEST HARTFORD — Congregation Beth Israel , 701 Farmington Ave., is hosting the following events. All events are at the congregation, unless otherwise noted. For more information, call 860-233-8215 or visit www.cbict.org. Shabbat Splashdown Pool Party and Havdalah: Saturday, Aug. 26, from 6 to 8:30 p.m., at the home of Cantor Phillips. Address provided upon RSVP. CBI's group for young professionals and graduate students hosts a light dinner with fun in the pool. A short Havdalah ceremony brings the sweetness of the evening into the rest of the week to come. Guests are asked to bring a drink or dessert to share. RSVP to Cantor Phillips by Wednesday, August 23, at lphillips@cbict.org. Celebrate CBI: Sunday, Aug. 27, from 4 to 6 p.m. Enjoy food, fun, family, and friends in this end-of- summer celebration , free and open to the public Torah Study will take place every Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m. Clergy will lead a spirited exploration and discussi...

You are going to love my simple and inexpensive $ 110 Bathroom Update ! I am thrilled to be joining the Better Homes and Gardens Live Better Blogger network where I’ll continue to work on creative home ideas to share with you! You know how I LOVE to use creative ideas for decorating my home. $110 Bathroom Update Makeover 110 Bathroom Update | Update and makeover your bathroom inexpensively. Bathroom Decorating ideas and more. on TodaysCreativeLife.com" width="600" height="900" /> Our first challenge is to Decorate a New Space and that was the kick in the pants I needed to update my guest bathroom. A bathroom that doesn’t get used much, meant it’s always on the back burner. Out of site, out of mind.      Update and Refresh! I can’t believe I completed this whole bathroom make over update for $110! Budget decorating is one of my favorite hobbies in the whole wide world! It’s easy to make smart decisions when shopping BHG at Walmart! The online selection is...

Pretty much since I learned to walk, I have had an unusual disdain for waste. I noted the inefficient route of the school bus and wondered why it couldn’t just pick us up at a few centralized locations. Tracked my allowance with multi-year forecasts and kept the dollar bills organized in a photo album. Always cast a fiery eye towards a fridge or a front door left open , a car left idling , or a credit card bill left unpaid . This odd condition has proved to be profitable over the years, as I have naturally sought out ways to use less energy and waste less money, with very positive side effects like getting to spend more time outside and retiring from work relatively early. This is the reason the concepts of money and energy efficiency mingle so freely on this supposedly-financial blog: you can look at your energy consumption as a very close measure of the wastefulness of your life. The ideal life, even a very modern one, will require you to spend very little of your earnings buying ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - When aging parents can no longer care for themselves, having a conversation with them about their future is never easy. Fortunately, there are people who have made it their life's mission to help you figure out what your loved ones can afford when it comes to their long-term care, and where they should spend their golden years. When my dad turned 92 years old in August 2016, his suddenly failing health was a rude punch of reality. Up until then, I had seen him as the strong, quick- witted police officer everyone in Trenton, New Jersey, knew. But suddenly it was up to my sister and me to be his caregivers. We did our best until he passed away in January, but the crash course we received in elder care was eye-opening. Senior living arrangements Once adult children get a handle on their parents’ finances, it’s time to figure out what type of care they can afford. My father soon needed more help than a home health aide could provide, and rushing to find the ri...

It is a common trope in boxing that fighters are a product of their environment. And on Saturday night two fighters from two different worlds meet in a money- spinning clash befitting of the gaudy extravagance of the Las Vegas strip .  But Conor McGregor's clash with Floyd Mayweather is a fight forged on the streets of two cities, more than 3,500 miles apart and a world away from the lights of the Nevada desert.  At first glance, they are two men with little in common. A cocky son of a drug-ridden American ghetto and a brash kid from a working class suburb of one of Ireland's proudest cities. When they meet in the ring, they will be joined only by a mutual desire to be the best. But where did their journey to the T-Mobile Arena and one of boxing's richest ever fights begin? Floyd 'Money' Mayweather takes on Conor McGregor at the T-Mobile Arena on Saturday night in a huge cross-over clash Irish superstar consistently talks about the influence of his roots and fea...