Love can be expressed in many ways. Often a love poem is the most popular form of professing one’s love for another. Chelsea Clinton was married today to Marc Mezvinsky in an interfaith ceremony on an estate, Astor Courts, a couple of hours north of New York City.  After the exchange of vows and rings, the bride and groom read aloud a brief love poem, “The Life That I Have,” by Leo Marks, the late British codebreaker, according to the Associated Press. I’m sure this poem will become a popular …

Online Coupon Savings
As we move through the halfway mark of the summer season, we can take advantage of the many savings opportunities that come with online coupons including summer clearance sales and back to school sales, often back-to-back and overlapping. Summer for many of us means completing home improvement projects for both inside and outside along with getting ready for the next school year. By planning and researching for both, we can take advantage of the savings found online.
Save with Coupons: Home Improvement
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Best Online Learning Websites for Kids
For some, summer is almost half over, for others…school will be starting soon. It is never too early or too late in the summer to review and strengthen skills learned in school this past year. It seems that over the summer weeks, kids let their brains take a vacation, too! I see all too often kids may know their math facts or know how to read, but they don’t know how to analyze and synthesize information or understand the importance of financial literacy. Critical thinking …

Summer Time is Fun Learning Time
Summer is here and going too fast for me. As a teacher, I know how important it is to keep the learning momentum going throughout the summer. But, I also know how difficult it is to motivate the kids to spend some time on their studies when the temptation to ride their bike, hang out with friends, swim, or spend time on things they can’t normally do when they are in school. What makes learning special in the summer? It can be fun because it …

Life is stress. That’s the definition of life I heard somewhere at a time when I didn’t understand what it meant. But now with the economy in a rut, the environment going down hill faster than we can correct the wrongs, plus personal stressors…life is definitely “stress.” And we do need stress relief more than ever!
Ways to Reduce Stress
Whether it is debt relief, your career, a relationship, raising your grandchildren, or illness that is causing you stress, you need to find ways to reduce the stress you’re experiencing. Woman’s …

Summer is a season that provides many opportunities for writing original poems using alliteration. After spending a sunny summer week at the shore, spending time walking on the sizzling sand and watching my family maneuver the waves, the following summer poem came to my mind’s eye. Alliteration in poetry is used to create a feeling or a picture by accentuating descriptive words. The alliteration used in the poem just seemed to fall into place for me.  (I think the scary part is left over from the scariest park ride I went on with my …