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Moments of Truth
On Being A Better Customer
Posted on Feb 20, 2009 11:00:00 AM  |  By Corynne Corbett

About two weeks ago, I made an appointment to treat myself to a massage. It was scheduled for yesterday. I must have discerned somehow that I was going to need it because the subsequent fortnight was overwhelmingly busy. With the...

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Moments of Truth
The Power of the Pause
Posted on Feb 10, 2009 10:04:00 AM  |  By Corynne Corbett

I don't know what I did before my remote control included the fast forward and pause buttons. Now I think nothing or rewinding a show to watch a particular scene again or pause a show if I get a phone...

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Moments of Truth
Fighting Your Inner Chicken Little
Posted on Feb 6, 2009 10:00:00 AM  |  By Corynne Corbett

Unless you decide to live in a bubble, we know that bad things will happen to good people. And even in the bubble you're not immune. But in times like these we must be careful to avoid what I like...

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Moments of Truth
Traveling Mercies (and Trials too)
Posted on Jan 28, 2009 11:58:53 AM  |  By Corynne Corbett

,p/> You can learn a lot about others from traveling with them. Even if you think you know a friend, colleague or relative, chances are taking a trip with them will reveal something you hadn't noticed previously—especially if anything goes...

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Moments of Truth
High Heels and Happiness
Posted on Jan 21, 2009 12:27:24 PM  |  By Corynne Corbett

Like my mother, i have a great appreciation for shoes—especially the beautiful, impractical kind. But when I first starting working for Real Simple I found that wearing them daily proved problematic because everything was so far away. By the end...

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Moments of Truth
The XX Factor
Posted on Jan 16, 2009 10:21:00 AM  |  By Corynne Corbett

"To be or not to be," may be the question that William Shakespeare had on his mind when he penned Hamlet, but what I really want to know is why women have a hard time getting along at work? To...

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Moments of Truth
The You That Nobody Knows
Posted on Jan 13, 2009 12:52:48 PM  |  By Corynne Corbett

A few weeks ago my sister was showing a few of us some moves she picked up in her belly dancing class. At the moment she was doing it, my 12 year-old niece walked by and saw her aunt shimmying....

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Moments of Truth
Why Has The Truth Become Underrated?
Posted on Jan 9, 2009 10:06:00 AM  |  By Corynne Corbett

James Frey's fabrications in "A Million Little Piece"s seems to have started a trend. Well, sort of. Now it seems that people think that their own lives are not compelling enough so they're making things up. Margaret Seltzer created a...

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Moments of Truth
The Change Reaction
Posted on Jan 6, 2009 10:48:00 AM  |  By Corynne Corbett

I am not usually the type of person that catches a cold or the flu. But today, for the second time in the past month, I actually do have a cold. It's the stuffy, achy, non-feverish, annoying kind that doesn't...

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Moments of Truth
Define Success For Yourself
Posted on Jan 2, 2009 12:01:00 PM  |  By Corynne Corbett

So if you haven't figured it out by now, I love old movies. I used to watch screwball comedies when I was a child with my mother and became enamored of more genres of old films as I grew older....

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