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Nine ways being a mom makes me a better entrepreneur

Starting a high-tech startup with two children in diapers probably sounds like a bad idea. It’s never easy to balance a business with raising children, yet alone when they are 1 and 3 years ...

DATE: Sep 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Trichy parenting: How I learned to try to see the whole picture that is my daughter

Trichotillomania. It doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, now does it? When my daughter first started pulling, she was 9 and it was like a tornado of energy had ripped though her....

DATE: Sep 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Kim Cattrall: 'I am not a biological parent, but I am a parent'

Can you consider yourself a parent without having or adopting children of your own? “Sex and the City” star Kim Cattrall thinks so. “I am not a biological parent, but ...

DATE: Sep 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Here's the deal, little negotiator

Q: My 7-year-old is a big-time negotiator on just about everything: how many treats, how long for screen time, punishments, how long he has to clean. Literally anything we want to do he come...

DATE: Sep 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

The story of how a newborn's cry may have helped save her mother's life

In the predawn hours of one Saturday last September, Shelly Cawley’s husband and their newborn daughter were being escorted through hallways of a North Carolina hospital. Cawley had slipped ...

DATE: Sep 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Baggage Check: Should I unfriend my own wife?

Q: My wife antagonizes people on Facebook. She deliberately posts provocative status updates, often political, and comes across as very judgmental and black-or-white in her interactions. She...

DATE: Sep 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Can online shaming shut down the Internet's most skin-crawly creeps?

After more than 10 years in the bubbling cesspool of Internet dating, Maggie Serota is no stranger to creeps. She’s gotten messages from fetishists, from sweetheart scammers, from men decade...

DATE: Sep 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Produce Bounty directs fresh food to low-income families

Food drive directs fresh produce to low-income families

DATE: Sep 16, 2015 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Initiative aims to interest kids in fruits, vegetables

GREELEY (AP) – When a farmer offered her a bag of baby carrots at the Greeley Farmers Market, 3½-year-old Elizabeth Shaw wasn’t interested. Her father, Jon, offered her a tiny, ripe tomato, ...

DATE: Sep 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Food

Pumpkin spice

The flavor of fall, and a hint of the past

DATE: Sep 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Food

A garden pasta dish that does double duty

I confess: I am somewhat of a lazy cook. It is not that I am willing to cut corners and sacrifice good technique; instead, my strategy is to choose unfussy dishes that yield the most pleasur...

DATE: Sep 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Food