7 Things Not To Say To Your Child | Eating Disorders Increasing Among Kids
Your 8-year-old may have an eating disorder. Think the idea is ridiculous? Think again. According to Johanna Kandel, founder and director of the Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness, based in Florida, “Some research says that as much as ten percent of those with eating disorders are under the age of ten. What I’m finding at [...]
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Are Unemployed People Lazy? | Paradigms Of The Employed
Among politicians and others in the the lines of the employed – those who have not been laid off in this abysmal recession or in others - there’s an insidious belief that the reason someone remains unemployed is because s/he’s lazy. The thinking goes – if they were really trying to get jobs they’d have [...]
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The 11 (and counting) Sides Of Me | Holidays & Multiple Personalities
I’m in, what feels like today, a fight-to-the-death battle with the holiday blues. Even though, I know I have many, many, many things to be grateful for. Even though, I know I have the life I have because of the choices I made. Even though, I’m not sure there are many choices I’d change if [...]
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Giving Thanks – A Video To End Stereotypes About Women & Cheerleaders
A goal of mine for this blog, Borderless Thinking, is to write about differing perspectives; to challenge yours and my prevailing thinking on issues, particularly women’s issues. This 2 minute video of more than 50 current and former professional cheerleaders who are also science professionals or enthusiasts fits the bill. (I discovered the video on [...]
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3 Women Supporting Other Women|It’s No Anomaly
I have a thing for women. Not in a sexual way, but there are feelings involved. Feelings of support, feelings of easy conversation, feelings of connectedness. And despite Umair Haque’s, hypothesis in the Harvard Business Review that social media is largely home to weak, artificial connections, what he calls thin relationships, I have built several [...]
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What Do Today’s Politics Teach Our Children?|Dissing The President
Two weeks ago, both the Democratic and Republican leadership were invited by President Obama to a bipartisan summit at the White House to be held this past Thursday to discuss “how we can move the American people’s agenda forward.” Only the Democrats showed up. The Republicans, in the cocky milieu generated by the mid-term elections [...]
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10 Things I Hate About You or Taming My Own Shrew
The 1999 movie The 10 Things I Hate About You, starring Julia Stiles and the late Heath Ledger, was loosely based on Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew. By 1999 I had successfully tamed the shrew that resided in my head – the shrew that had, for years told me I wasn’t good enough and [...]
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