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    Keys mom takes health challenge

      Leigh Smith, a 240-pound mother of two, wanted to get healthy. But growing up on Southern fried food and routinely putting her family first, the 35-year-old admitted she didn't know how.        Enter three Key West nutrition and fitness experts who spent November giving her a head-to-toe wellness makeover after choosing her from nearly 90 applicants for a "30 Days to Help Yourself...read more...
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    Moms helping soldiers

      Flea collars and a prayer are tucked inside a brown shipping box bound for a remote region of Afghanistan. Karla Smiley, 44, stuffs another box with chocolate chip granola bars, a pair of white socks, eye drops and ChapStick -- essentials for a soldier trying to survive the elements of a foreign terrain. Two boxes down, more than 1,200 left to go. ``Every soldier deserves a mom,'' says Smiley, of Fort...read more...
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    Balancing Act: Outlook for working women

      With the election behind us, now is an ideal time to look at whether working women are advancing and how they will fare as a new administration leads our country.    Who better to discuss this topic than Carol Evans, founder of Working BALANCING ACT By CINDY GOODMAN . Read Cindy's MomsMiami blog here . Mother Media, who speaks Friday at The Women's Alliance National Conference in Miami about...read more...
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    Broward moms hit Sundance

    BY DAVIA MAZUR , Special to The Miami Herald Think of Sundance Film Festival, and you might conjure impeccable mountain scenery, knee-deep powder, A-list stars, and expensive restaurants requiring reservations months in advance. Is this any place for seven South Florida suburban moms? Well, yes. And we're going back.   OK, so maybe we didn't make all the super-cool private parties. But in a single week we saw a...read more...
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    Mom tattoos show off kids

      Call it Mommy Ink.    Mothers of all ages are hitting the tattoo parlors -- and it's not about nostalgia for their rebellious youth.    They're getting sentimental tributes to their children: their kids' names, their baby footprints, their portraits, even their finger paintings.    "Moms come in and say, 'I've always wanted a tattoo, now I have a kid. Now I have a...read more...
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