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Cover Girl Laura Bell Bundy (Interview Part II) with Melissa A. Bartell

In part one of our interview with cover girl Laura Bell Bundy, we talked about her work on stage and in song. In part two we turned our discussion a bit more toward her offstage life, including a couple of great organizations she’s involved with. Enjoy!
Eight performances a week is demanding no matter what the […]

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Man of the Moment Ben Bailey with Melissa A. Bartell

Each week, we get to journey through the streets of Manhattan with our February Man of the Moment Ben Bailey, host of The Discovery Channel’s Cash Cab, but that’s just one aspect of his life. He turned off the meter and let us question him for a change. Enjoy our interview with the comic and […]

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What’s In Your Heart by Deb Smouse

February is the time of hearts. We see it in the grocery stores and on commercials “Give your “heart” for Valentine’s Day. For the romantics, Valentines Day is a time of flowers and romance and for the cynics, it is a red and pink hallmark holiday. Women, as early as junior high, seem […]

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By Land, By Sea by Kathleen Gerard

My sister was coming off a very tumultuous love affair, and I was coming off anesthesia from surgery. Both of our stories were long and complicated. Hers started with a married man; mine, with cancer. Other than both our lives seeming to be in limbo, the only things we really had in […]

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Finding the Joy by Frances Stuart

Earlier this week, I turned 39, and it occurred to me that – quite possibly – my life is half over. If the average life expectancy for a woman is approximately 80 years, I’ve just about reached the middle. This thought truly gives me pause. Have I accomplished what I wanted […]

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Women in Business: An Introduction by Elia Sheldon

Two months before marrying the man of my dreams, I thought I was having a nervous breakdown. We’d just moved from Manhattan to the Boston area and I’d decided to use that opportunity to change careers. By my fourth day in my new job as a technical recruiter, it was clear that I […]

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Don’t Blame Me! by Samara Leigh

As I watch as the outgoing president defiantly defends his record in office and the way he handled Hurricane Katrina in particular, I am stunned. True, I vehemently disagree with his assessment of the situation (as do the facts and just about anyone whose name isn’t George). However, it isn’t the statements themselves that I […]

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Cover Girl Laura Bell Bundy (Interview: Part 1) with Melissa A. Bartell

There are many kinds of Journeys that we take in life: the one from child to woman, from wannabe to star, and from the place we’re born to the place we eventually live. In part one of our interview with Laura Bell Bundy, we discuss her Kentucky roots, her writing process, and the way she […]

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Man of the Moment Brian D’Arcy James with Samara Leigh

Brian d’Arcy James is a lucky man, indeed. He loves what he does for a living, has a beautiful wife and daughter, and just recently celebrated his tenth wedding anniversary. James has enjoyed a lengthy and successful career on Broadway that shows no signs of slowing down. Over the past two decades he’s played a […]

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Following My Heart, Retaining My Spunk, and Being Constructive by Deb Smouse

It’s been years since I have been a regular church-goer. It isn’t that I don’t have faith; it’s honestly that I have discovered that I don’t need to be IN a church to find my God. On occasion, however, I do find comfort and peace in attending Mass at a Catholic Church.
No, this […]

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Communication Error by Bev Hamel

Never mind that I am a communications major. Never mind that I tried to bundle and save a year ago with one wired carrier who drilled holes in my roof and supplied me with a wireless TV system that never worked and phone lines that went dead during thunderstorms. Never mind the undiscovered leak […]

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With a Little Bit of Luck by Melissa A. Bartell

Generally speaking, I don’t believe in luck. Or at least, I don’t believe in it as something controlled by external forces. I think horoscopes are entertaining, and fortune cookies are just for fun, and the tarot is an interesting experiment, but I could never let any of these things inform my decisions or guide my […]

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Embracing Your Inner Humbug by Shanna Trenholm

By the time you read this, unless you are my editor, another holiday season will have come and gone. The only reminders of merriment and excess that remain are the tree that needs untrimming, the extra five pounds around your waist from eating one too many potato latkes, and the vestiges of that nasty hangover […]

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