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Q&A: Bauble Stockings Founder on Turning a Family Tradition Into a Business

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Growing up, Kate Stice Stewart would shop for a special Christmas gift for her mother. She, her brothers and their father would nestle it—or a clue about it—in a small needlepoint stocking on the tree, and it would be the last gift opened. Kate Stice Stewart: It’s 2017, and I’m on my laptop searching “fair trade.” She agreed.

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4 Ways to Truly Forgive and Forget

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Then think of a small gift you could offer this person. In the emotional relief of letting go, Enright says, you might discover “the paradox of forgiveness: as we give to others the gifts of mercy, generosity and moral love, we ourselves are healed.” What psychological wounds might they be nursing?

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9 Battle-Tested Tips to Turn Stress Into Success

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Only when we believe high-stress situations are a gift are we able to seek and find that gift. — This article was published in April 2017 and has been updated. Tom Shieh , CEO of Crimcheck. Focus on what you have. A few years ago, I was approached by a large corporation seeking to acquire a stake in my company.

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The Problem With the ‘New Year, New You’ Mindset

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I understand it’s meant to inspire, reframing the stroke of midnight as the gift of a fresh start. This article was published in January 2017 and has been updated. And although I love the hopeful eye with which many gaze, I have to admit that I have a problem with the “new year, new you” mentality. New year, new you!

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

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In the predawn hours of a Saturday morning in January 2017, an arsonist set fire to the Victoria Islamic Center, a mosque in Victoria, Texas. In March 2017, Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s Modern Love column, “ You May Want to Marry My Husband ,” appeared in print and online in The New York Times. Neighborly Love. Jamie Friedlander.

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Natasha Graziano Has Built a Brand on Matters of the Mind

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In 2017, she bought an Instagram account from a fashion blogger (she had been a model right out of high school); at that point, she already had half a million followers of her own. Each of us has our own gift, but not one of us has the same gift.”. Her modeling savvy helped her get there. “If Why are people following you?

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What I Learned the Year We (Nearly) Skipped Christmas

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This trip was part birthday gift, part Christmas escape, part Florida homecoming. She thought that doing something different, something lighter on gifts and heavier on togetherness, would be good for us. Now we had an afternoon to do the thoughtful gift-selecting that my mom normally takes months to do. This is Texas, after all.

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