Most girls today know not only the literary story but own the video-cassette, DVD, Barbie doll, Halloween outfit and a myriad other commodity products. Indeed, how many of us as adult women have not at some point invoked the services of a ‘fairy-godmother’ or held back on committing to a perfectly good relationship because we were waiting for our ‘Handsome Prince’ – our own ‘feel-good-movie’?

As rooted in our childhood memories and cultural make-up as the ‘Cinderella’ narrative is, we do not hold the copyright to the tale. Multiple variations of the tale exist; the earliest recorded version dating as

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Your old trusty PC has finally wheezed its last dusty breath and you decide that perhaps it’s time to throw caution to the wind and cross the threshold of that super-chic, ‘newest generation technology’ emporium: ‘The Apple Store’.

Unless you are an ‘ultra-geek’ and have spent many hours in the company of a small herd of computers, your journey to the Apple Store is likely to be overwhelming. Even just a quick trip to the online store has the regular you or me upside down and inside out. Apple’s product selection is simply astounding! Once you have managed to stop yourself from salivating over the sheer beauty and craftsmanship of so many of the designs and products and begin to focus more seriously on function….

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While I have to agree that working with one’s spouse can be an enormous challenge, I believe that it is simultaneously an extremely fulfilling, wholesome, and rewarding experience.

I have often reflected on the irony of how two people who have chosen to dedicate their lives to each other; to love and cherish one another for all time, promptly spend most of their waking time apart. If you cannot maintain a compatible work relationship with your spouse how do you expect to run a healthy and functional marriage?

Marriage requires an enormous amount of active cultivation and effort. More often than not however, couples become complacent and tend to neglect their marital relationship due to the pressures and stresses concomitant with an overwhelming work load. This is compounded in a relationship where both spouses work or actively participate in a full-time career. How often have you found yourself coming home from work and simply vegetating in front of the television or, even more common, how many perfectly functional marriages eventually deteriorate into a resentful breeding ground for petty bickering over….

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US Flag Day Poster 1917

At first, such a conspicuous display of raw patriotism filled me with unease. The fervid national identity shared by every American citizen had yet to become agreeable to me as such a sentiment was wholly unfamiliar to my own experience. I come from a land torn apart by violence and strife, a place where neighbors murder each other at the slightest provocation and where poverty walks hand in hand with corruption and greed. So you see, it is very seldom that ordinary citizens feel compelled to display their national flag with a sense of pride or patriotism.

It did not take long however, before I too came to approach the American Flag with a degree…

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