TOP 100 FAMILY SITES
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| Stay-at-home dads say experience well worth it NEW YORK -- Mike Biewenga, a stay-at-home dad for the last four years, noticed something funny when he took his daughter to story time at a nearby library. Gathered around the reader in a circle, mothers sat farther from him than from other moms. pantagraph.com |
Grandkids are great, but name change not always so welcome WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- It wasn't that Adair Lara wasn't thrilled about her daughter's pregnancy. It's just that at age 52, Lara was, well, way too hip and young to be a grandmother. And she spent the next nine months trying to avoid the name "Grandma" -- a word, she says, "that lay in wait for me like a pair of dentures in a glass." pantagraph.com |
Ecology Action Center calendar winners BLOOMINGTON -- The Ecology Action Center has will distribute it's 2009 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle calendar at it's annual America Recycles Day celebration, Nov. 15 at the Children's Discovery Museum in Normal. pantagraph.com |
Year in review: Politics dominated pop-cultural landscape In any normal year, it would be impossible to discern a coherent theme from a year of American pop culture, try as we journalists might. This year was different. pantagraph.com |
108 super uses for your (not so) ordinary household objects Some ordinary, unassuming household objects have hidden superpowers. And most of these items cost less than a couple of bucks. There are cult followings of vinegar and duct tape. Entire tomes have been written about the virtues of baking soda. pantagraph.com |