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87Trichotillomania: Things That Help
Trichotillomania is a compulsion to pull your hair or pick your skin, sometimes with the added complication of eating the pulled hair. Although the actual health dangers are few, except for those who eat their hair, the behavior is compulsive,...
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78How to train a dog to stop chewing on electrical cords?
Dogs have to chew, but you don't want them chewing on anything expensive or dangerous-- like electrical cords! With holiday decorating draping electrical cords around the house, consider these tips for training your dog not to turn them into Christmas sparklers.
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79Amazon Kindle Free Samples
Amazon.com provides free samples for titles offered for its Kindle ebook reader. The samples give you a solid "browse" through the beginning of the book, and there are clickable links to easily buy the book...
4 comments72Keeping Your Boundaries
In short, "Boundaries" is psycho-babble for "you don't get to walk all over me." Your personal boundaries might be physical, but more likely they're emotional, and the emotional boundaries are the hardest to...
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69Zombie Novels
Reviews of World War Z, Monster Island, Soulless, and The Stupidest Angel, four zombie novels that are worth your time.
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62Inferno Kindle Sample
The sample for Inferno by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle (Kindle price: $9.32) pulls you into the story right away, and only leaves off after the story has motion. Like The Book Thief and The Graveyard...
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76The Gift of Fear Book Review
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker has been given to me by well-meaning friends more than once, but I finally sat down to read it this month. This is not an easy book to read-- at several points, I had to stop and think carefully about how I felt...
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82How to Remove Wax Stains
Wax stains are a pain, aren't they? They're resistant to soap and water, and if you try too hard, you can ruin whatever you're trying to clean! There are three ways to remove wax: cold, heat, and trauma. Cold will harden the wax and make it...
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82How to Write Funny Jokes
Comedy is hard to write and hard to perform. There are people who are naturally gifted at making jokes, and most of us have blessed times when our timing is perfect and everything that comes out of our mouths just zings. But for most of us, funny is...
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76How to Knit a Sock
There are a few basic reasons to knit socks, and they have to do with the kind of knitter you are. First, there's the product-oriented reason. Handknit socks are a work of wearable art. They're comfortable, beautiful, and you can make them in any...
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