Give Yourself the Gift of Fitness

I love to give gifts, especially to my children.  Although it’s not as fun anymore, now that they prefer money or gift cards. In this season of giving, it’s important to remember our own needs.  Not necessarily the material ones but our health.  So how about giving yourself the gift of fitness? Maybe you are the person who has never been very active.  It could be that you don’t even really struggle with your weight, so what’s the point. Too often we look at exercise as a way to lose weight or tone up.  But it’s good for your heart … Continue reading

Can Your Homeschool Blog Earn Money? {Part 3}

In, Can Your Homeschool Blog Earn Money?, Part 1 and Part 2, I discussed the background information you need before starting a blog that has the potential of earning you a profit.  If you missed those two posts, please take time to read them as blogs without a proper foundation do not earn profits. Not all profits can strictly financial but we all want to know now to earn cold hard cash.  There is no easy answer but there are avenues you can take to drive your blog to the bank. Here are some of the most popular ways to … Continue reading

Insurance Blog Week in Review – July 8 – 14, 2012

Every week, the Insurance Blog Week in Review brings you a quick and easy way to “ketchup” on the blogs that have been posted here in the past seven days. There could be anywhere between twelve and fourteen blogs that appear. Which ones did you miss? Jan Brewer Wants to Take Away Health Insurance Benefits Arizona Governor Jan Brewer wants the Supreme Court to allow her to terminate health insurance coverage for the same-sex partners of state workers. An appeals court would not allow her to do that. The Insurance Podcast Roundup went up on July 9, 2012. This time, … Continue reading

Insurance Blog Week in Review – July 1 – 7, 2012

Each week, the Insurance Blog Week in Review gives you a quick and easy way to “ketchup” on everything that has been posted here in the past seven days. There can be anywhere between twelve and fourteen blogs that appear. What did you miss? Just the Facts – About the Health Insurance Tax The Supreme Court ruled that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional. Many people are confused about how the individual mandate tax will affect them. This blog gives you just the facts about that tax. The Insurance Blog Week in Review went up on July 2, 2012. As … Continue reading

Insurance Blog Week in Review – June 10 – 16, 2012

Each week, the Insurance Blog Week in Review brings you a quick way to “ketchup” on all of the blogs that went up in the past seven days. There could be anywhere between twelve and fourteen blogs that appear here in a given week. What did you miss? Protest in Chicago Over Birth Control Mandate About 500 people attended a protest in Chicago to express their dissatisfaction about the federal requirement that employer sponsored health plans must cover birth control. Just One Ticket Can Raise Your Car Insurance Premiums Drive safe this Summer! You’d be surprised how much one traffic … Continue reading

Want to Design Your Own Blog for Free?

Ebook: How to Design a Blog for Free: A beginner’s guide to creating a professional design on a budget. By: Jacinda Vandenberg Cost: $4.99 Book Summary: In it, I explain in complete detail every step it takes to create and install your own customized headers, buttons, banners, Facebook covers, photo tabs, eBook covers, social media icons – as many things as I could possibly think of! I’ve included visuals for each step, and made the installation process a painless ordeal by providing codes you can simply Copy & Paste. You don’t need Photoshop or any other expensive tools since everything … Continue reading

Insurance Blog Week in Review – May 13 – 19, 2012

Once a week, the Insurance Blog Week in Review gives you a brief description of all of the blogs that were posted in the past seven days. There could be anywhere between twelve and fourteen blogs that appear here weekly. Did you miss something? Now is your chance to “ketchup”. Governor Christie Vetoes Insurance Exchange New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has vetoed a bill that would have set up an online marketplace for health insurance. He feels that it is too early to set up his state’s insurance exchange, and is waiting to see what the Supreme Court decides about … Continue reading

Give Writing A Try – Write A Family History Story

Sometimes, it is nice to take a break from your current genealogy research project and try something a little different. Writing a family history story is a fun way to put some of the facts that you have gathered into a larger context and preserve information about the life and times of one or more of your ancestors. Wait, what’s that you say? You say that you can not write a family history story because you are not a good writer? That is okay. You do not have to be a published author, or anything close to that, in order … Continue reading

When Life Gives You Lemons …

A father in Texas was diagnosed with cancer. His six year old son decided to raise some money to help pay for his father’s medical bills. He opened a lemonade stand. Amazingly, he managed to raise more than $10,000 in one day. The little boy turned lemons into lemonade, and lemonade into money. Randy Cox lives in Gladewater, Texas, with his wife, Tonya Cooley Cox. They have three sons: Drew is six years old, Jake is four years old, and Micah is only seven months old. Randy, who is 30 years old, was recently diagnosed with seminoma. Seminoma is a … Continue reading

Deciding Where to Give Birth

When you got pregnant, you took care to choose a prenatal health care provider or team of providers that you could trust to provide the best care for you and your baby throughout your pregnancy. As the time for baby’s arrival draws near, you may be faced with another major health care decision – where to give birth. For example, you may be working with midwives and preparing for a home birth until something happens late in the pregnancy which requires that your care be transferred to a hospital. That just happened to me. You could also be planning to … Continue reading