Cari Shane Parven

Don't forget the little kid in you

Your best friend is the little kid inside of you. So says Karen Deans, Bethesda, Maryland based author, artist, entrepreneur, mother and wife who believes we should carry the dreams of our childhood with us always. She has followed her...

Money and Beauty

Do you have a friend for whom everything always comes easy? She's not only pretty and thin, but also smart and to top it off, she always gets the job. Well, it turns out that looks do really help...

The Innocence Project: Friend to the wrongly convicted Part III (of III)

16 years, two months and 27 days after being wrongly convicted at the age of 13, Thaddeus "T.J." Jimenez was released Friday from prison.Arrested in 1993, he was convicted for a murder he did not commit...

The Innocence Project: Friend to the wrongly convicted Part II (of III)

In 1982, 18-year-old Marvin Anderson of Virginia, was arrested for the brutal rape of a white woman who described to police a black man who had gotten away on a bicyle. From the very beginning, the odds were...

The Innocence Project: Friend to the wrongly convicted Part I (of III)

We’ve seen it in television shows like the Practice and in movies like the Shawshank Redemption. We’ve watched it on the news and read about it in the papers. It happens more often than any of...

Remembering love and friendship in a mix tape

Love is a Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at a Time (Random House, 2007) is a book about love, friendship, memories and a small towns. Written by Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape is a memoir of...

A dog, a dumpster, a best friend

Maya Pieters had trouble communicating until she met her best friend, Jack, a Terrier mix who had been thrown like a piece of trash into a dumpster, left to die.When she was three-years-old, Maya was diagnosed with...

Finding friendship with Holocaust survivors

Florence Golden hugged the boys tightly even before they handed her the gift."I love you," she said, stretching her arms around the tall, thin frame of 13-year-old Louis Rothstein. Then she grabbed his brother, Ricky...

Flicks and friends

Beverly Zeidenberg doesn't like American movies. "I don't get what I want with American shoot-'em-up and sci-fi movies." So she started a film club where she can watch the kind of flick she...

Have you ever asked a friend to tell you about her first period? Rachel Kauder-Nalebuff did. Part II

PART TWO:Rachel Kauder-Nalebuff had a horrible first period experience. Not only did it include her grandfather, a yellow bathing suit and waterskiing, once she had told her mother, Rachel's entire family went on the congradulatory warpath.Yet...

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