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Monthly Archives for November 2011.

Free eBook from Girlfriendology!

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It’s so easy to get caught up in the craziness of the holidays. Between parties, visitors, shopping, cooking, cleaning, and traveling, the most wonderful time of the year can also be the most stressful time of the year. Girlfriendology, the online community celebrating female friendship, has put together a free eBook with tips and tricks…

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Covert Affairs gift pack: We have a winner!

And the big winner of the USA Network Covert Affairs gift pack is…..Mariah! My most exciting story is traveling to London and Paris with 20 college students. After the same student burnt out her hair straightener, broke the pull-handle on her 50 lb suitcase, left her purse with brand new camera, passport and all money…

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Business Traveler Interview: Aliza Sherman and Danielle Smith

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You guys have heard a lot from my experience at Blog World, but I haven’t shared everything. One of the best workshops I attended was about empowering women to be public speakers, run by Aliza Sherman, Jill Foster, and Danielle Smith. Aliza and Danielle recently wrote MOM, Incorporated, about how to have a family and…

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Travel News This Week

It’s early in the week, but there are already some interesting travel stories out there. CNN has an interesting look into the future of airport security. What does the future hold? Well, thermal lie detector tests and cloned drug and illness sniffing puppies, for starters. Yowza! Worried about keeping clean on the road? MSNBC has…

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TSA Pie-Laws

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This year for Thanksgiving, my mother’s entire family is going to her house for dinner. This amounts to about thirty people, including my immediate family, plus my grandmother, uncles, aunts, cousins and their kids. Because there are so many people, everyone is bringing something for the meal so no one person is responsible for feeding…

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Contest! Win a Covert Affairs Gift Pack! (closed)

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I just discovered this show, and I have to say, it’s awesome. In Covert Affairs, Piper Perabo stars as Annie Walker, a CIA newbie who must balance her complicated personal life with a professional life that’s anything but boring. With episodes filmed on location in some of Europe’s most beautiful and interesting cities, the scenery…

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Avoiding Sinus Infections

The past six weeks have been very travel-heavy. I was gone every week, sometimes twice a week, culminating in the last week where I flew on 12 separate flights. This proved to be too much for my sinuses, and now I’ve got a sinus infection and am on a two week regimen of antibiotics. By…

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