The reason you are creating a budget determines the urgency of sticking to your budget.If you’re in the first group, you don’t have a lot of wiggle room. There is no good way to regularly spend more than you earn. If you do, everything will eventually, break down and it will imp...
It seems hard to believe because we've always associated mascots as part of the school identity. I graduated from Hampden Academy, and we've just always been the Broncos. It's how we referred to ourselves in the third person throughout my entire high school career. Same for my sister who...
The second I start reading a story that begins, “Light streamed through the window and she opened her eyes. She padded to the bathroom and stared at her reflection in the mirror …” I’m skimming down to find out where the action begins. Does the reader really need to see this chara...
Jack Norworth wrote "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" in nineteen eight. One day he was riding a New York City subway train and saw an advertisement for a baseball game. That gave him the idea for the most famous baseball song ever written. Not bad for someone who had never even been t...
Let's face it, most of us didn't think the Royals were going to be a playoff-caliber team. Yet, I'm not sure most of us thought the team would be this bad. The Royals are in the cellar of the AL Central 17 games behind the Minnesota Twins. The only team more out of the ...
Psychologists Karen Gasper and Brianna Middlewood wanted to test this theory and find out if people who experienced boredom were more creative. They asked volunteers to watch video clips that evoked certain feelings, like boredom, relaxation, or elation, before testing their ability to think of dif...
The solution is mindfulness. When you understand the influences driving your behaviors, you can say to yourself, “I’m doing X because it’s what my parents always did. Is it the best choice?” 3. Siblings Can Provide Valuable Support ...
This, of course, is easy to say. The next time I feel like throwing a canvas across the room I shall try to practice what I preach, but the urge just to tweak a bit, just to repaint that one little passage can be hard to resist. ...
Briannasays November 23, 2015 at 3:09 pm How much is it to do a test? Reply IDENTIGENEsays November 23, 2015 at 5:18 pm Hi, Brianna. Testing for one possible father, one child, and one mother (mother is optional) is just $89 plus the price of the kit, which is about $24.99 ...
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