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 [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="260"] Pigeon Point Lighthouse[/caption] When I was 13, we moved to North Carolina, where I saw my first lighthouse, Cape Hatteras. After climbing the stairs the lens room was incredible with the many prisms reflecting the sun. It set my love for lighthouses. One of my favorite lighthouses is Pigeon Point Lighthouse. Located in Pescadero, California it is the second tallest lighthouse on the west coast at 115 feet. The white masonry tower sits on the cliff with a light flash every ten seconds. The lens previously had been installed at Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. I like to think that this lens lead me on my journey coast-to-coast, just as it has many sailors at sea, welcoming them to the Pacific Coast and guiding them through the storms since 1872.

 As September is  National Grandparents Month. Patricia Babuka, expert on the grandparent/grandchild relationship and CEO and Co-Founder of  GrandCamp Adventures  —products, activities and games specifically designed to nurture grandparents’ relationships with their grand-kids offers insight on the celebration and how to better nurture the grandchild/grandparent relationship: There are 65 million grandparents in America, and they are younger than ever before— 43%  became grandparents in their fifties, and  37%  in their forties. With more and younger grandparents than ever before, grandparents’ and grandkids’ relationships are slowly changing, many evolving into close-knit, independent relationships. Why are grandparents such an important role in a child’s life?  Grandparents are often a grandchild’s strongest connection to family heritage. Grandparents are free from the day-to-day parenting, so they are able to provide a special time of uninterrupted play. Grandchildren especially enj

  by Jenna McCarthy I have a remarkably happy marriage , and people ask me all the time how I got so lucky. (Not as often as they ask me about autism, vaccines, and Jim Carrey, so let’s get something straight before we go any further: Not. Her.) I used to wonder if it had something to do with pheromones or having relatively low expectations; but after eleven years of wedded bliss, I am pretty sure the key is some combination of kindness, respect, and my ability to read a road map upside down divided by my husband’s skill at tuning out my nagging. Okay, fine. We got lucky. Busloads of studies have attempted to figure out why roughly every other marriage fails miserably. It turns out; the success stories of a happy marriage share a few similarities beyond the obvious stuff like “they don’t have sex with other people.” Here, then, are seven scientifically proven* steps to marital ecstasy. Be thinner and better looking than your husband . I have no idea why this works to create nuptial de