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J. Ellen Fedder is a freelance writer from the Pacific Northwest. She's a professional tutor and has written two books. She actively writes for AC and writes several blogs. J. Ellen is married and is a recent empty-nester.
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B.S. Home and Family Life Education, M.Ed. Special Education
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Live with eternity in mind.
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Learn if you can take too many vitamins and if over-consuming vitamins does more harm than good.
Learn why blogging is the perfect way to launch into writing for more than a hobby.
After a stroke or brain-injury, old friends are important, especially when aphasia makes establishing new friends difficult.
Read this food review about a chocolate diet-friendly dessert flavoring and ice cream topper.
Here are some typical and some not so typical house-sitting concerns that you might want to have on your house-sitter list.
Here's an effective plan for helping you identify, set and reach your short-term and long-term attainable goals.
Before you launch into a new diet, here are 5 questions to ask about any intended diet plan.
Here are 10 tips to help prepare you for that first job interview.
Here are several household tips you can follow to conserve energy in your home and save money.
Discover 15 tips to help you make getting your daily 8 glasses of water a bit easier.
Learn valuable tips for whipping egg whites with perfection.
Read this food review and discover why Walden Farms Whipped Peanut Spread is the dieter's choice.
Got a stuck drain? Here are 4 ways to unclog drains naturally.
Learn how do battle with your blemishes and win. Read what causes adult acne, how to treat it and home remedies you can try.
Save money, effort and time with an organized pantry. Here are tips to help you get organized.
Learn why The Giving Tree is a classic children's book.
Learn how you can get rid of ants in environmentally non-toxic ways that are safe for kids and pets and are relatively inexpensive.
Don't throw out that shirt with the oil stains on the front. Instead, try one of these tips for removing oil stains from your clothes.
Why toss and turn another night? Why plod through another day tired and sleep-deprived? With these 15 tips for getting a good night's sleep, you should be able to achieve your goal of better sleep.
Learn how to select the freshest salad greens and how to make your salad greens keep longer.
Here are several suggestions for removing cigarette smoke from mattresses.
Your visit to the salad bar sounds like a healthy plan, but learn why it may not be so, in terms of fat, calories and carbohydrates.
Been asked to lead a discussion group and you don't know where to begin? Here are 10 helpful tips for leading a discussion group.
Read how legalism shows it's ugly face and how the Fruit of the Spirit cures it.
Learn why having a support group - whether it's a diet support group, health condition support group, or a recovery support group - makes a world a sense.
Learn how one couple's hospitality is making a difference in the lives of several homeless individuals.
Make a difference in your friend's closet. Give him or her your fat clothes and learn how to do it without insulting your friend.
When it comes to lowering your carb intake, these tips can do just that for you while allowing you to still enjoy some of your favorite desserts.
Learn why mushrooms are a dieter's friend and why mushrooms are a diabetic-friendly vegetable.
Learn how to make this easy, kid-friendly craft. It's perfect for birthday party decoration and fun.
Stressing out over company, overachieving in the kitchen - does this sound like you? Learn a lesson in attitudes and priorities from a familiar Bible passage.
Read why ak-mak stone ground sesame crackers will easily earn a spot in your cupboard, no matter how funny-sounding the name might be.
Are you tired of eating your peanut butter sandwich the same old way? Improve your peanut butter sandwich. Here's how.
If you're a diabetic searching for a substitute for potatoes or another great vegetable for dips, jicama is a tuber you'll want to get to know.
Here are 40 rainy day activities to take the boredom out of your day.
Equip yourself to ride out the hard times. Let these 12 tips help you survive the recession.
Follow these tips to help you take control of your sodium intake.
If you'd like to eat more beans, but you're concerned about the gas potential, give these bean tips a try.
It's not all about the price. Learn what other factors determine if you're really getting a bargain on a food item purchased at a discount food store.
Learn how aphasia affects communication and read how my husband and I deal with some of the communication challenges.
Read how tent camping once again became a recreation for us even with my husband's disabilities.
Did you know there are easy, cheap and natural ways to get rid of spiders using stuff you already have in your home? Here's how.
Learn these diabetic diet strategies and you can attend a potluck with confidence.
Here are several examples of events in your life that you may have missed as miracles.
Here are 10 tips you can try to get your child to eat more vegetables.
Here are 10 summertime picnic tips to help you plan for your next summertime picnic event.
Have you misplaced anything lately? Here is the top 10 list of most misplaced items.
Take a look at the many health benefits of eating apples and learn the best way to add apples to your diet plan.
Learn what makes a nut serving, how to keeps nuts from going rancid, what to look for in products using nuts, and new ways to use nuts in your cooking.
Learn how your dehydrator and juicer can supercharge a plan for better health.
Learn why the Jerusalem artichoke is a diabetic-friendly vegetable, and learn how to shop for and cook with this tuber.
Learn what you can do to reuse or recycle your wire hangers.
Learn how to saute vegetables without oil.
Here are 7 ways to more successfully commit to a vegan dietary change.
Read a paraphrased, personal application of Psalm 23.
Learn how to pad your resume with qualified work experience, when you thought you had none.
Discover 5 very good reasons for getting up before noon.
Here are 10 conditions that can result from negative physical or mental stress.
Here's how to help an aphasic communicate better as a passenger in the car.
Here are 10 reasons for declining health.
When you can't afford the calories, snacking's not an option. To keep from snacking, here are 10 tips that can offer you anti-snacking alternatives.
If you eat too fast or know someone who does, here are 20 tips to help slow down the eating.
Read these 8 parsley tips to learn how to make parsley more than just a garnish on your plate.
Learn what several churches are doing to help homeless families in the tent community.
Here's how to throw a taco salad potluck that's easy on time, is convenient and makes a great indoor or outdoor meal.
Read this article to learn how to bake potatoes, find plenty of baked potato topping suggestions, and learn how to throw a baked potato potluck where your guests bring the toppings.
Learn why my gluten-free meal was anything but gluten-free. Also, find out how gluten hides behind certain terms used in ingredient labels.
To remove heel calluses and prevent them from reoccurring, here are several inexpensive home remedies.
Learn why some gardeners use grass clippings as mulch and why others do not.
Learn what can trigger a hot flash and how to avoid the triggers.
Learn how to grow, harvest and use peppermint leaves from your own garden.
Learn why funding a dependent adult child may not be what's best for him or her.
Learn about gooseberries and how to cook with them.
Tired of paying the price for cilantro at the supermarket? Here are 10 tips to help you grow cilantro with good results.
Honor a mother who might not be remembered on Mother's Day. Read how you can make a difference.
Achieve greater tomato productivity by following these 10 gardening tips.
Discover some practical uses for popsicle sticks in the home.
Why eat leftover roast turkey the same way for days after a holiday dinner? Here are 7 ideas for meals you can make with leftover roast turkey.
Memorial Day, Fourth of July and Labor Day are patriotic summer holidays that call for a picnic. Here's a great picnic game idea for lots of players.
Learn tips for growing garlic in your home garden.
Learn how to grow rosemary at home and how to use rosemary in your cooking.
Learn what preparations and purchases prove keys to survival in times of disaster.
Soldier suicide brings with it a social stigma which affects the family and how the soldier is remembered.
Learn the conditions needed for growing a great patch of raspberry-producing plants.
Learn ten legal and safe ways to get rid of your old television set.
Learn why it matters where we invest our money.
Learn how to make healthy food choices when you know the general rules for healthy eating.
Learn the value of recycling bricks and find ten great project ideas for your leftover or used bricks.
Learn why diabetics of any age are at greater risk for getting cataracts.
Here are some blackberry picking tips and tips for baking a classic blackberry pie.
Do you want more consistent results when you bake cookies? Here are 10 tips for better cookie baking.
Learn about the nutritional benefits of teff and how to cook with it.
Fresh ground horseradish is a real taste experience. Learn how to harvest, select, prepare, and store horseradish, and pick up a few cooking tips.
Learn 5 creative and tasty ideas for applesauce.
What do you do when you have to move furniture and no one is available to help? Here are 10 tips to make your task easier.
Learn how to make a peanut butter pine cone bird feeder with easy instructions and lots of tips.
Learn some practical uses for newspaper, ones that you are apt to use.
Learn how to make you own homemade fruit leather.
When smoking bans are disregarded, business owners and nonsmokers are negatively affected.
Find out what seeds are worth saving and learn tips for harvesting, drying and storing your saved seeds.
Learn what else you are eating along with your peanut butter.
Experiencing writer's block? Here are 50 places you can look for Associated Content article inspiration.
Learn how to harvest, preserve and cook rhubarb with these 25 rhubarb tips.
Learn 10 tips about hummingbirds and hummingbird feeders that will help you attract and keep hummingbirds in your yard.
Learn why hanging your clothes to dry is a good choice during a recession or anytime.
Recession-proof your food budget by gardening or bartering. Here's how.
Are you in charge of planning a classroom party? Here are some strategies and tips to help.
Learn how to extend the life of your cut flowers by reading these tips.
Learn how to make your own tangy homemade sauerkraut.
Learn how you can reuse bottled water bottles and soda bottles for camping.
Learn 10 practical ways you can reuse or recycle rubber bands.
Learn why we accumulate clutter and how we can stop.
Got leftover holiday ham? Here are 7 tasty snack and meal ideas for using up the leftovers.
Here are some healthy reasons to get more walnuts into your diet.
Here are some generalizations about church size and what to expect from each.
Learn the difference between worldly sorrow and true repentance.
Read this analysis of the classic poem by Robert Frost, "The Road Not Taken."
Here are 10 great gift ideas that are age and gender-neutral.
Learn what issues are likely to dislodge older church members and lead them right out the church door.
Learn how church home groups work and how groups benefit the church and individual members.
Find out what you can do to kick-start your child's bedroom cleaning.
In 7 steps, learn how the Lord's Prayer models how we should pray.
You don't have to eat leftover pot roast the same way the second time if you follow these tips.
Learn 3 tips for helping your special needs child behave or speak in more socially acceptable ways.
Learn what agave nectar is, where it comes from and how to use it in your cooking.
Learn how to cook with honey using these 8 helpful tips.
This article focuses on major reasons for favoring school uniforms in both public and private school settings.
Learn how memory association can be used to improve academic scores or remember people's names.
Improve reading comprehension through use of pre-reading activities and oral reading practice.
Here is a technique students can use to take notes more accurately and more quickly.
When a caregiver is needed, finding the right one is important. Learn what factors to consider in your search.
Read about the top five motivators for blogging.
Here are the basics for teaching a unit on modern haiku to elementary and secondary students.
Here are some great Easter party ideas for public school classroom teachers and their parent volunteers.
Learn how to express pure religion at the practical level.
Here are 5 tips for cutting carbs in your diet naturally.
Launch your teen with these two important tools for life.
You probably can't find an easier recipe for red beet eggs than this one.
Learn why it benefits a church to recharge its Sunday School program, rather than dropping it.
Here are ten nostalgic gift ideas to help you give the perfect gift.
When your teen says "no" to college, what do you do with his or her college fund? Learn what you can do to help your teen succeed both now and in the future.
Learn how to prepare for and tutor your first lesson with a new student.
Learn what you can do to have specific Bible verses handy, where and when you need them most.
Want a salt-free, preservative-free taco seasoning blend? If so, this recipe is for you.
Enough with the butter and jam! Discover 10 new snack and meal toast-topping ideas.
Learn what it means to have good community blogging etiquette.
Learn how to add more flaxseed into your diet, and learn some of the precautionary measures regarding flaxseed consumption.
Here is an easy low-carb recipe for chocolate soymilk and hot cocoa.
This product review covers cost, taste, nutrition and cooking ease of Leonardo Tuna Dinner boxed cheesy pasta.
Learn several tutoring techniques for helping students who have b and d letter confusion and p and q letter confusion.
If your child is bored in the classroom, here are two possible reasons.
Reading with speed helps struggling readers improve comprehension.
If you are looking for a short vowel phonics technique that can unlock reading for an early learner or can help an older student master short vowel sounds, this phonics technique is one that gets results.
Learn five of the most popular reasons why teachers enter the teaching profession.
Looking for an easy, budget-friendly tuna casserole recipe? Here's a keeper.
Teachers quit for a variety of reasons. Learn why even good teachers leave the profession.
Learn how to help a child master the long vowel sounds.
Discover some great classroom party ideas for celebrating Valentine's Day.
Read the top 10 excuses heard from students for failing to turn in homework.
Here is a St. Patrick's Day snack idea that kids will love, and the recipe doesn't include adding green food coloring.
Short 17-syllable haiku about the crocus.
Here is a fun St. Patrick's Day limerick.
Learn how to have a fun outdoor party involving watermelon contests.
Learn why blueberries are a nutritional powerhouse in your diet.
Learn what common egg substitutes can take the place of eggs in cooking or baking.
Learn why that personal television set in your child's bedroom, may not be a good idea.
Learn why crossing off calendar days is a good thing.
Learn why it makes sense to shop the Dollar Store first.
Learn why it may not be safe to take expired vitamin supplements.
It's time we take up the assignment and intercede for those we touch on a regular basis.
This short Valentine poem highlights enduring love.
Here is an easy to make, delicious, cake-like recipe for chocolate zucchini brownies.
This Spicy Nut Oatmeal Cookie recipe has extra flavor and spice.
Here's a recipe for a butter cookie that's sweetened with agave nectar and is topped with hazelnuts.
Here's an easy butter cookie recipe using agave nectar as sweetener and topped with hazelnuts.
Here is an easy and delicious recipe for making sliced marinated cucumbers with dill.
Learn why change is certain and why you can expect it.
Some of these reasons are directly related to the child, while others are more related to the parent. Here are 30 reasons why a parent may choose to homeschool his or her child.
Learn why gardening in raised beds just makes sense.
Here is a nutritious, easy to make, low-carb smoothie recipe.
Learn 5 reasons why teachers pass failing students.
Learn why students cheat and the importance of consequences.
Valentine poem written as Valentine acrostic in series of 3 haiku.
Read about places that welcome volunteers, what it takes to volunteer, and benefits of volunteering.
Learn some church shopping techniques to help you in your search for a new church home.
Kitchen junk drawers are a depository for everything we don't know where to put and a receptacle for things we don't want to throw away, because the items have value and we might need them.
Here are 10 reasons why church attendees or members decide to leave a church.
Here are some home remedies you can try to help reduce snoring and get better sleep.
Learn about dietary needs of celiacs and how to provide safe meals for celiacs.
Learn about 10 common mistakes made by food handlers that put the public at risk for foodborne illness.
Here are some tips to help you maintain your vegetarian regime when traveling.
Here are 5 special diets, dietary concerns for each, and suggestions of what to share with a dinner party host regarding food preparation.
Here are 10 practical ways to reuse baby food jars and other small glass jars.
If you don't see well when driving at night, consider following these 5 driving tips.
Read about 7 great ways you can reuse common dryer lint.
This article will show you how to put used pantyhose or nylon stockings to new use.
Read about the many health benefits of raspberries and the protective proterties available by eating this amazing fruit.
Read about how my dog obedience training backfired.
If given a choice, many young folks choose television, movies, games, and friends over checking out and reading a great book.
Learn why eating whole foods is a wise health choice.
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