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Your Money

PDF icon No Christmas "Claus"
Fall 2007
PDF icon Fake I.D.
By Chris Sebastian. Winter 2006
PDF icon Not All Are Created Equal
Winter 2006
PDF icon Rainy Day Spending
Fall 2006
PDF icon Don't Have a Document Dilemma
Fall 2006
PDF icon Woman's Life Annuities
By Wendy L. Krabach, Winter 2005
PDF icon Dividend Scale Revised
Fall 2005
PDF icon It's the Thought that Counts
Winter 2004
PDF icon Enjoying the Good Life Now
Fall 2004
PDF icon Want To Live Your Financial Dreams? Join the Club!
Spring 2004
PDF icon Debt Information Worth Noting
Winter 2003
PDF icon Gen X Women: Think Tomorrow, Live Today
Fall 2003
PDF icon Volunteers: Don't Pass Up the Opportunity to Deduct Out-of-Pocket Expenses
Summer 2003
PDF icon Your Money: Financial Confidence, IRA Contributions for 2002, Holiday Debt Hangover Spring 2003
PDF icon Tax Tips for the Small-Business Woman
By Mary T. Deckert. Winter 2002
PDF icon What Do I Need To Know About Life Insurance?
By Wendy L. Krabach. Summer 2002.
PDF icon Guaranteed - Death, Taxes and Annuities!
By Wendy L. Krabach. Spring 2002.
PDF icon Your Grocery Cart and You
By Janet Welch. Fall 2001.
PDF icon Financial Help For Today's Woman
By Mary T. Deckert. Fall 2000.
PDF icon Buyer Beware!
The viaticals investment craze. By Valerie Benson. Winter 1999.
PDF icon Taking Control of Your Financial Future
If not now, when? By Wendy L. Krabach. Fall 1998.


Money Matters

PDF icon Keeping Up with Suzy Jones
By Amy V. Lewis. Fall 2007
PDF icon College Saving 101: Funding A College Education
By Chris Sebastian, Fall 2006
PDF icon Getting Fiscally Fit in 2006
By Carrie Shine, Winter 2005
PDF icon Wedding Bell Budget: How to Save Money on Your Wedding
Spring 2005.
PDF icon What Do I Need To Know About Life Insurance?
By Wendy L. Krabach. Summer 2002.
PDF icon Guaranteed - Death, Taxes and Annuities!
By Wendy L. Krabach. Spring 2002.
PDF icon Financial Help For Today's Woman
By Mary T. Deckert. Fall 2000.
PDF icon Teaching Your Kids About Money
By Diane Lofquist. Fall 1999.
PDF icon But Mom, They Give You Money At Work
Teaching your children the value of a dollar. Fall 1999.
PDF icon Thumbs Up!
To empowerment, by Diane Lofquist. Summer 1999.
PDF icon Goal Setting
Your plan for financial success. Fall 1998.
PDF icon Making Single Moms' Priorities Our Own
by Diane De Decker. Fall 1999.


Financial

PDF icon Save $2,005 in 2005
By John D. Nardini II, Winter 2004
PDF icon Finding Financial Happiness
By Trish Kinnee, Fall 2004
PDF icon But I Want It! Coping With An Overspender
By Janet Welch, Spring 2004
PDF icon Surviving the Financial Fallout of Divorce
By Patti Samar, Winter 2003
PDF icon Face Your Financial Fears: Don’t Let Mental Barriers Keep You From Taking Control of Your Finances
By Monica Wheeler, Fall 2003
PDF icon Holding the Cards: A Young Woman's Perspective on Taking Charge of Credit
By Jill Guest. Summer 2003
PDF icon Managing Your Employee Benefits: Taking Advantages of All Your Career Has To Offer
By Mary T. Deckert. Spring 2003
PDF icon A Woman's Primer to Opening a Small Business
By Patti Samar. Winter 2002
PDF icon Protect Your Minor Children's Financial Security
By John Ingrisano. Fall 2002.
PDF icon What Would Happen to Them if Something Happened to You?
By J.R. Ingrisano. Summer 2002.
PDF icon Women Have Unique Retirement Needs
By J. R. Ingrisano. Spring 2002.
PDF icon This Year, Give Holiday Gifts That Last
By John R. Ingrisano. Winter 2001.
PDF icon The Psychology of Spending
By Sheila Rabe. Fall 2001.
PDF icon What are Stocks and How Do They Work?
Reprinted with permission of Morgan, Keegan & Co., Inc. "Other Helpful Stock Information" by Wendy L. Krabach. Summer 2001.
PDF icon Stretching Your College Dollar
By Diane Lofquist. Winter 2000.
PDF icon Grandma's Gift
By Diane Lofquist. Summer 2000.
PDF icon Buying Your First Home
When is the right time for buying your first home? By Casey Benedict. Spring 2000.
PDF icon End-of-Year Tax Planning
Postponing income four ways and other tax tips, by John Bringard, C.P.A. Winter 1998.


Lifestyle

PDF icon Happy Anniversary
Fall 2007
PDF icon In Search of Holiday Turkey
By Patti Samar, Winter 2005
PDF icon don't go breaking your heart
By Patti Samar, Winter 2005
PDF icon The Holidays: blessing or burden?
By Victor Parachin, Winter 2005
PDF icon Have A Healthy Holiday
Winter 2005
PDF icon Defining Successful Aging
By Ed Pittock, CSA, Fall 2005
PDF icon How to put the Jolly back in Holly, Jolly Christmas
By Leigh Anne Jasheway-Bryant, Winter 2004
PDF icon Happiness is a Choice
By Victor Parachin, Fall 2004
PDF icon How to Negotiate Anything
By Susan Fee, Spring 2004
PDF icon Volunteerism: Do It For You
By Mary T. Deckert, Winter 2003
PDF icon The Age of Women in Business Has Arrived
By John R. Ingrisano, CLU. Winter 2002
PDF icon Letting Go
By Bonnie Walsh Davidson. Spring 2002.
PDF icon Alone For The Holidays
By Patricia L. Fry. Winter 2001.
PDF icon How To Help Your Kids Be Undercover Agents of Kindness
By Cathy Lamb. Summer 2001.
PDF icon Tracking Your Family Roots
By Jane Haldeman. Spring 2001.
PDF icon So, You Want to Be The Boss?
By Mary T. Deckert. Winter 2000.
PDF icon Character Education: A return to our ethical roots
By Mary T. Deckert. Fall 2000.
PDF icon Parental Guidance
More Adult Children Are Being Called Upon to Help Their Parents Maintain Financial Independence. By Drew Williams. Summer 2000.
PDF icon Living Together, Separately
Multigenerational households that work. By Karen Norris. Winter 1999.
PDF icon Girlfriends
A good friend is worth her weight in gold, by Cathy Lamb. Fall 1999.
PDF icon Divorce and Damage Control
We can survive divorce and help our children become strong, happy adults, by Rose S. Gardener. Fall 1999.
PDF icon The Long, Hot Summer
How to keep kids busy and teach them social responsibility at the same time, by Wendy L. Krabach. Summer 1999.
PDF icon Volunteering
An opportunity to give, but receiving so much more in return, by Wendy L. Krabach. Spring 1999.
PDF icon Intuitions
Marketing to, by and for women. Winter 1998.


Of Interest to Single Mothers

PDF icon When is Enough enough? A young woman's perspective on being satisfied with what you have.
By Lori Gordon, Winter 2003
PDF icon When Your Friend Has Cancer: 10 Ways to Help
By Victor Parachin, Fall 2003
PDF icon Going With Your Hunches
By Patricia L. Fry. Spring 2003
PDF icon Staying Safe After Sunset: Tips for being out past dark.
By Janet Welch. Spring 2003
PDF icon What Women Want: Making the Most of Marketing to Women
By Wendy L. Krabach. Winter 2002
PDF icon Your Child's First Crush
By Mary T. Deckert. Summer 2002.
PDF icon Some People Stop At Nothing To Help
finding star volunteers to grow your local units.
By Mary T. Deckert. Winter 2001.
PDF icon Spa Humbug
By Bonnie Coy. Fall 2001.
PDF icon Safety Awareness for Women Traveling Alone
By Mary T. Deckert. Summer 2001.
PDF icon Celbrating Women of Courage and Vision: March Is Women's History Month
By Mary T. Deckert. Spring 2001.
PDF icon How to Personalize and Individualize Your Wedding
By Cathy Lamb. Winter 2000.
PDF icon Christmas, Christmas Everywhere
By Tara Wick. Winter 2000.
PDF icon I Survived
By Bonnie Davidson. Fall 2000.
PDF icon Mentoring
Building Friendships While Sharing Competencies. By Mary T. Deckert. Summer  2000.
PDF icon Time for "The Talk?" Relax, Help Is on the Way
By Mary T. Deckert. Spring 2000.
PDF icon Four Christmas Gifts to Give Yourself
By Freya Ottem Hanson. Winter 1999.
PDF icon Taking Fabulous Photos
Tips from a "shootmaker's" wife, by Ellen B. Weiland. Summer 1999.
PDF icon My Best Friend: My Mom
Seems as we get older, the smarter Mom is, by Mary T. Deckert. Spring 1999.
PDF icon Just Say "Yes"
And make the world a kinder, gentler place this year, by Victor M. Parachin. Winter 1998.
PDF icon How to Be Alone and Happy
Practical tips from people who've been there, by Patricia L. Fry. Fall 1998.


Literacy -- Our National Cause

PDF icon Former First Lady Barbara Bush's Keynote Address
Deeply touched and humbled by Woman's Life. Fall 1998.


Member Stories

PDF icon Donna Petri: Cocktails With a Cause
By Chris Sebastian, Fall 2007
PDF icon Jodi Langmesser: Growth Through Membership
By Patti Samar, Fall 2006
PDF icon Mercedes Fox: 2004 Member of Distinction
By Patti Samar, Winter 2004
PDF icon Kathy Dack: Business Owner, Working Mom and Involved Member
By Patti Samar, Fall 2004
PDF icon Patricia Everett: Love of home, family and church
By Karmel J. Davis, Fall 2003.
PDF icon One of the Young Heroes: Dawn Helmrich
By Tara Wick. Summer 2002.
PDF icon A Busy Woman With Time for Everything
By Tara Wick. Fall 2000.
PDF icon A Can-Do Woman
Meet Carolyn D.A. Davenport, by Mary Deckert. Fall 1999.


Product News

PDF icon Life Insurance: Are you Properly Covered?
By Wendy Krabach, Fall 2007
PDF icon Trust Your Intuition: New Life and Annuity Products Now Available
By Wendy Krabach, Fall 2006
PDF icon Retirement Planning for Newlyweds
By Wendy Krabach, Spring 2005
PDF icon The Gift of Life: This Season, Give the Gift of Life Insurance
By Wendy Krabach, Winter 2004
PDF icon Fall in Step: As Seasons Change, Review Your Life Insurance Protection
By Cindy L. Brown, Fall 2004
PDF icon Woman's Life Annuitites: Guaranteed Income, Guaranteed Flexibility
By Wendy L. Krabach, Spring 2004
PDF icon This Holiday Season, Give the Gift of Life Insurance
By Connie Wager, CLU, ChFC, Winter 2003
PDF icon Life Insurance and the Single Woman
By Connie Wagner, CLU, ChFC. Fall 2003
PDF icon Don't Work? Why Have Life Insurance?
By Connie Wagner, CLU. ChFC. Summer 2003
PDF icon Life Insurance for the Business Owner
By Connie Wagner. Winter 2002
PDF icon Intuitions Whole Life
By Connie Wagner. Fall 2002
PDF icon Term Insurance - A solution for the single mother's insurance needs
By Connie Wagner, Communications Specialist. Summer 2002
PDF icon Woman's Life Annuitie...Guranteed Income, Guranteed Flexibility
By Wendy L Krabach. Spring 2002.
PDF icon Insurance Needs of the Business Owner
By Connie Wagner. Winter 2000.
PDF icon The Flexibility of Riders
By Connie Wagner. Fall 2000.
PDF icon Annuities: New and Improved
Just the Ticket for Retirement. Winter 1999.


Health & Fitness

PDF icon Ladies Night In
Fall 2007
PDF icon Have a Healthy Holiday
Winter 2006
PDF icon Teach Your Children Well
Fall 2006
PDF icon Time for the Change
Fall 2005
PDF icon Go Red For Women
Summer 2005
PDF icon Burnin' for Bliss
Spring 2005
PDF icon More Than Just The Blues
Winter 2004
PDF icon The Art of Healing Touch
Fall 2004
PDF icon Use Your Head When Dieting
Spring 2004
PDF icon Health Information Online
Winter 2003
PDF icon Get in Shape to Tackle Your Yard This Fall
Fall 2003
PDF icon Fruits of Summer
Summer 2003
PDF icon Health and Fitness: exercies, health screening schedule, Ask Dr. McDonald Spring 2003
PDF icon Women and Heart Disease: The Silent Epidemic
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Winter 2002
PDF icon Fitting In Fitness
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Fall 2002.
PDF icon Find Yourself a Physician
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Summer 2002.
PDF icon Be Good To Your Feet
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Spring 2002.
PDF icon Keep Positive - Your Health Depends On It
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Winter 2001.
PDF icon Saving Ourselves From Breast Cancer
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Fall 2001.
PDF icon Ah-Choooo! Time for the Sneezin' Season
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Summer 2001.
PDF icon Menopause
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Spring 2001.
PDF icon A Look At Herbal Medicine
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Winter 2001.
PDF icon Getting to the Good Life
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Fall 2000.
PDF icon What Women Need to Know About Men's Health Care
By Dr. Homeira McDonald - Edited by Tara Wick. Summer 2000.
PDF icon Physical Exams
Health for Life, by Dr. Homeira McDonald. Spring 2000.
PDF icon Sanity for Single Mothers
Taking care of yourself means taking better care of your family, by Nancy Maywar, ACSW. Fall 1999.
PDF icon Do Vegetarians Live Longer?
The health benefits of plant-based eating. Summer 1999.
PDF icon Spinning Your Wheels
The fitness program that's spinning the world, by Bobbi Moreno. Spring 1999.
PDF icon It's Not All in Your Mind!
Interstitial cystitis, by Beatrice Levin. Winter 1998.


Ask Dr. McDonald

PDF icon Fitting In Fitness
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Fall 2002.
PDF icon Be Good To Your Feet
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Spring 2002.
PDF icon Keep Positive - Your Health Depends On It
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Winter 2001.
PDF icon Saving Ourselves From Breast Cancer
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Fall 2001.
PDF icon Ah-Choooo! Time for the Sneezin' Season
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Summer 2001.
PDF icon Menopause
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Spring 2001.
PDF icon What Women Need to Know About Men's Health Care
By Dr. Homeira McDonald - Edited by Tara Wick. Summer 2000.
PDF icon Physical Exams
Health for Life, by Dr. Homeira McDonald. Spring 2000.
PDF icon Physical Exams
Health for Life, by Dr. Homeira McDonald. Spring 2000.
PDF icon Breast Lump Treatments
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Fall 1999.
PDF icon Vegetarianism From a Medical Point of View
By Dr. Homeira McDonald. Summer 1999.
PDF icon Lyme Disease Part I
Diagnosis and avoiding infection, by Dr. Homeira McDonald. Winter 1998.
PDF icon Lyme Disease Part II
History, early warning signs and treatment, by Dr. Homeira McDonald. Spring 1999.


At Home

PDF icon In Good Company
By Patti Samar, Fall 2007
PDF icon Makeing Memories
By Patti Samar, Winter 2006
PDF icon Creating A Balance: Your Return To School
By Chris Sebastian, Fall 2006
PDF icon Fifteen unique, craft-free holiday gift ideas
By Brenda Massman Ward, Winter 2004
PDF icon Guests Coming? Six fast and fun ways to clean
By Paula Mooney, Spring 2004
PDF icon 20 Ways to Keep the Holidays Safe and Meaningful
By Victor Parachin, Winter 2003
PDF icon Wall Works: You Can Fix that Hole
By C.J. Plants. Fall 2003
PDF icon Pass the Peas, Please
By Janet Welch. Summer 2003
PDF icon Enhance Your Life in 10 Simple Ways
By M. Chris Osment. Fall 2002
PDF icon Rise and Dine
By Billie Hanley. Summer 2002
PDF icon Beauty Basics From Your Kitchen
By P.A. Shenberger. Summer 2002
PDF icon Untangle The Web
By Daniele Burich. Winter 2001.
PDF icon Talking 'Bout Their Generation
By Daniele Burich. Fall 2001.
PDF icon Super Summer Reading for Kids of unsupermoms
By Diane De Deker. Summer 2001.
PDF icon The Journey of Your Garden
By Patricia L. Fry. Spring 2001.
PDF icon Extracurricular Activities: When is enough enough?
By Mary T. Deckert. Fall 2000.
PDF icon Pass It On
When You Share Your Hobby, You're Handing Down a Skill They Can Use. 
By Eleanor Brownridge. Summer 2000.
PDF icon A Dozen Tips for Decorating With Kids in Mind
By Cathy Lamb. Spring 2000.
PDF icon Fix It Yourself!
What every "Handy-Mom" should know, by JoAnne Liebeler. Fall 1999.
PDF icon Gift Ideas From the Heart
Thoughtful giving is a joyful art, by Kim Bremer. Winter 1998.


Food & Nutrition

PDF icon Deceptively Simple Gourmet
By Jennifer L. Knaack, Spring 2004
PDF icon Souper Comfort Food
By Cindy Joslin, Winter 2003
PDF icon Autumn Bounty Harvest Recipes for Your Breakfast Table
By Jan Rupnick. Fall 2003
PDF icon Good to Go: Make-ahead meals for less time preparing, more time enjoying
By Ann M. Stilp. Summer 2003
PDF icon Healthy Lunchs on the Fly
By Ann M. Stilp. Spring 2003
PDF icon A Friend in the Kitchen
By Diane DeDecker. Winter 2002
PDF icon Slow Cookin' In the Fast Lane
By Kim Bremer. Fall 2002
PDF icon Dinner And A Story
By Tara Wick. Spring 2002.
PDF icon One-Dish Winter Warmups
By Kim Bremer. Winter 2001.
PDF icon Take-Along Treats: Healthy Snacks for Your Busy Life
By Kelly James-Enger. Summer 2001.
PDF icon The Solo Chef: Cooking for One
By Kim Bremer. Spring 2001.
PDF icon Cool Treats for Kids
By Tara Wick. Fall 2000.
PDF icon Give Fats the Holiday Off
By Bobbi Moreno. Winter 1999.
PDF icon Kids and Nutrition Really Can Go Together
Healthy lunches your kids will love, by Mary T. Deckert. Fall 1999.
PDF icon Inspire a Love of Writing
By Anthony Joseph. Fall 1999.
PDF icon Meat Me Halfway
Balancing your vegetarian diet with your family's need to feed, by Wendy Burt. Summer 1999.
PDF icon Serve Up a Holiday Feast
You can do it! Winter 1998.
PDF icon You Can Can Too!
It's as easy as boiling water and following a recipe. Fall 1998.


Caring & Sharing

PDF icon Five Friends Every Woman Needs
By Ame Mahler Beanland & Emily Miles Terry, Fall 2007
PDF icon Are You Claustrophobic?
By Patti Samar. Winter 2006
PDF icon Giving & Grieving
By Victor Parachin. Winter 2006
PDF icon Beyond Casseroles: Caring for a Chronically Ill Friend
By Lisa J. Copen. Fall 2005
PDF icon Zestful, Zealous Ziggy
By Patti Samar. Winter 2004
PDF icon Who is the Mama Now?
By Sandra J. Campbell. Fall 2004
PDF icon When You Thought I Wasn't Looking
Summer 2004
PDF icon I Wish I would Have...
Spring 2004
PDF icon Holiday Traditions Around the World
Winter 2003
PDF icon What Women Should Know
Reprinted From The Internet, Author Unknown. Fall 2003
PDF icon Garden Provebs From Around the World
Summer 2003
PDF icon Eight Gifts That Cost Nothing
Reprinted From The Internet, Author Unknown. Winter 2002
PDF icon Passing on the Woman's Life Light
By Melissa Johnson. Fall 2002
PDF icon That's Love
Reprinted From The Internet, Author Unknown. Summer 2002.
PDF icon The Garden of Daily Living
Reprinted From The Internet, Author Unknown. Spring 2002.
PDF icon One
Reprinted From The Internet, Author Unknown. Winter 2001.
PDF icon The Candle
Reprinted From The Internet, Author Unknown. Fall 2001.
PDF icon Imagine a Woman
Author Unknown. Spring 2001.
PDF icon Customer Change
By Julie Green. Winter 2000.
PDF icon A Christmas Story
Reprinted from the Internet; author unknown. Winter 1999.
PDF icon If It's Soccer Practice, It Must Be Wednesday
If you juggle a crazy schedule, you're not alone. Fall 1999.
PDF icon Problem or Solution?
By Edgar Bledsoe, reprinted with permission from Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul. Winter 1998.
PDF icon The Wind Beneath Her Wings
By Carol Kline with Jean Harper, reprinted with permission from Chicken Soup for the Woman's Soul. Fall 1998.


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