Author: candacebd
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The Best Book to Read When You Need a Career “Do Over”
Feeling like you’re trapped in the wrong job can be suffocating, making the moment you clock out feel like sweet relief—only to be drowned out hours (minutes?) later by the crushing realization that soon enough, you’ll be back. That’s no way to live, and Jon Acuff’s new book, Do Over, proves life doesn’t have to…
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A 3-Minute Habit for Leaving Work at the Office
As you’re inching through gridlock traffic on your way home from work, while you’re trying to whip together dinner, with every office-related one-liner on your favorite sitcom, it creeps into your head. You should check your email, just to make sure your boss didn’t send something urgent. What’s the point of tomorrow’s meeting? Am I…
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The Most Decadent Banana Pudding Recipe You’ve Ever Tasted
Sex and the City may have made Magnolia Bakery world-renowned for its cupcakes, but anyone who’s been there will tell you the real star of the sweets shop is its banana pudding. It’s lighter, and airier, than the traditional recipe — the texture is more like mousse — and like any respecting Southern banana pudding,…
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What’s Keeping You From Your Best Work? These 3 Words Will Set You Free
There’s a saying in journalism that rings so true a friend tattooed it on her body: Kill your darlings. Whoa, whoa, whoa — don’t panic. As morbid as it sounds, it has nothing to do with serial killers or crime sprees. It’s a reminder that in order to create something truly compelling and great, you…
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How to Make an Anti-Gravity Cake
I can’t resist a good prank, joke or pun. When April Fool’s Day rolls around, I love seeing what fake creations Google’s touting, what faux posts Emily Schuman has crafted at Cupcakes and Cashmere, but especially, what fakeout foods people have cooked up. Remember when Family Fun showed you how to make fake chicken drumsticks…
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What We Really Mean When We Talk About ‘Potential’
‘Potential’ is a powerful word — it gives us hope or dashes it, depending on how it’s used. It’s something we’re always trying to live up to, yet something we hope we never fully reach. After all, how sad is it to think that you’ve reached your full potential, and there’s no chance for improvement…
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How to Get Your Best Haircut (and Color) Ever
I don’t know what happens to me when I sit in that swiveling chair at the salon, but it’s like my brain short circuits. I start babbling in rambling sentences, using hair terms I don’t fully understand—but hey, that magazine told me to suggest it!—gesturing at photos wildly, until I finally mumble something along the…
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Create Your Own Artist Statement for Life
Painters, illustrators and other artists of all ilks create a two- to five-paragraph statement that introduces people to their work and, by extension, who they are. It’s displayed in galleries, so visitors can get a sense of the artist while taking in his or her work. It answers some of those questions that arise when…
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How to Make a Font Out of Your Handwriting
People have said for years that email and texts have killed the handwritten letter. Some have gone so far as to declare that penmanship will be lost forever (you’ve heard those debates about whether cursive should be taught in schools, right?). We’ve found a practical solution: Turn those scribblings of yours into a font! Then…
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Slow Cooker Cream of Chicken and Wild Rice Soup
Not all recipes make it onto Collegiate Cook and Life Between Weekends. Some are such an epic fail they never even make it to the photo-taking stage, while others take countless iterations to get right. I spent an entire year searching for the right Cream of Chicken and Wild Rice soup recipe. Yup, one year.…
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The Toxic Truth About Being Passive Aggressive
Deep down, I’m a peacemaker. I always want to smooth edges, help people understand the other person’s side, and deflate a tense situation as quickly as possible. That tactic has helped me as a manager, student advisor and coffee-date companion over the years, but there’s an ugly shadow side to that need to cool things…
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Celebrate Pi Day This Weekend (With Mini Apple Pies)
By far, the most exciting part of middle school math was the hallowed day of March the 14th, when the algebra and pre-algebra teachers would band together to celebrate Pi Day. If you weren’t part of this jubilant festival and have no idea what I’m talking about, essentially this was the day when math instructors everywhere…
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