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A Decade of Morals — Have Yours Changed?
By
Padmini Mangunta
As the decade winds to an end, it’s natural for us all to look back at the years behind us. Last night I shared a drink with a friend and reminisced about Y2K. I thought back to the friends I celebrated with, the relationships we had all been in — and how far we each…
Buying Your Child’s Gender: Would You Do It?
By
Padmini Mangunta
This comes to no surprise to those of you who have heard various versions of my emphatic utterances “I’m in no shape to have or raise a baby right now thank ye very much,” but I must say I’m fairly ignorant about the next generation science of babymaking. So I was interested in reading this…
Smoking: When Do I Say Something?
By
Padmini Mangunta
Holly Rossi over at Fresh Living asks a question in her post, When Should You Confront a Smoker? A great question in my opinion, and it got me thinking. My dad was, quite simply, the definition of a chain-smoker. And he was a doctor, which made his addiction an unforgivable hypocrisy in my mind as a…
Holiday Gift-Giving: Why Do We Do This to Ourselves?
By
Padmini Mangunta
Time for the holiday shopping frenzy! Unless, of course, you’re one of the crazy folk who checked shopping off their holiday to-do list back in August. (You know who you are, and I just don’t like you sometimes.) I’ve culled my gift list considerably over the last five years or so, but I still suffer…
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