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On this week's Growing Bolder Radio Show, Marc and Bill interviewed the great-great-granddaughter of etiquette queen Emily Post. Anna Post is pretty hip and has a great new book about wedding etiquette. She's about 18 months too late for my own nuptials (although I am thinking of anonymously sending it to my cousin who wore white to my wedding, but I digress), but it's still packed with lots of...

As some of you may know, I am expecting my first child. Like any first-time mom-to-be, I'm filled with excitement, nervousness, sheer joy and of course, questions. Everyone in the world has an opinion about what I "absolutely should" and "absolutely should not" be doing. And that advice covers everything from exercise, food, products to buy and ways to decorate. But the one area that really...

I don’t see it as my business to tell other people what to do, but it is hard to be quiet when I notice that what needs to be done isn’t being done right and so sometimes I do put in my two cents whether it is appreciated or not. Like when I told my husband Johnny Bob that he was re-doing the roof on our shed all wrong – I spoke right up and yelled out, “you don’t know what in the hell...

It's an interesting year for me and my family. Today, my mom is celebrating her birthday. On this day 29 years ago, she was 29 years old, pregnant with me, and -- as it turns out -- just four days away from delivery. This year, I turn 29. The same age as my mom was when she had me. It's bizarre to think that I have passed the age where my mom gave birth to her first child, almost five years...