Father’s Day Gifts …or Gifts for Dad for any occasion… There’s nothing that makes a child happier than to give a homemade gift to Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, or Teacher. Making a gift not only helps develop hand-eye coordination and other developmental skills, it also builds self-esteem which are necessary for growing up healthy. Helping [...]

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The following information was given to me by my employer in regards to the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) offer of free or low-cost, affordable health insurance to children and families. I hope that by my posting the information for my readers to find, more low income families will learn about the affordable [...]

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Making Home Affordable Program The Making Home Affordable Program helps homeowners who have fallen behind in their payments for reasons out of their control. I have a family members who became delinquent in paying their mortgage. Unknown to them as first time home buyers, they had been taken advantage of by the irresponsible financial industry.  [...]

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Ask Dr. Oz: Cancer Prevention Clinic, May 21 Are you over 50? Have you had your colonoscopy yet?  If not, what are you waiting for?  I’ve had two, my husband has had 3, my 91 year old stepmother has had three also. Tomorrow, May 21, Dr. Oz will be discussing types of cancer prevention on [...]

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PTSD and the Viet Nam War My Junior English class is reading The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. The book is a memoir based on his experiences in Viet Nam during the war. Some of the stories within the book are fictional but represent the affect the war had on the young men placed [...]

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