The Checkout Girl

Love, Checkout Girl style

Are you crazy in love or just plain crazy? Even though my track record with amore is, shall we say, less than stellar, I respect you, either way.

by The Checkout Girl

February 5, 2012

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Parenting, Future-Style

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have blocked their own names as search terms on their children’s computers. I, on the other hand, am straightforward with my children about what they might find when Googling my name. How do you toe the line between protecting your children from the ugly truth and burdening them with it?

by The Checkout Girl

January 30, 2012

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A Sorta Fairytale

Relationships are complex, like a beautiful and intricate spider web. Or a straight jacket. Here’s how I ruined one. Unlike Newt Gingrich, I’m not blaming my patriotism.

by The Checkout Girl

January 23, 2012

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Khloé, Kenny, and Me

When we're young, many of us feel like we were born into the wrong family. Some people are saying that Khloé Kardashian actually was. My nine-year-old self is so jealous.

by The Checkout Girl

January 16, 2012

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Strong4Life and growing up fat

An ad campaign in Georgia is educating parents of fat kids about the fact that their health is in danger. But who's making sure their self-esteem is safe?

by The Checkout Girl

January 9, 2012

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The Marrying Kind

Perhaps, like the shapely (round) body I've been gifted, the Matrimony Gene skips a generation. All I know is that my grandmothers also loved to marry, and are two of the women I admire most.

by The Checkout Girl

January 2, 2012

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Ginger Roots

Four years ago this Christmas, I was at one of my lowest points. But my son reminded me that turning lemons into lemonade and gingerbread men into stars, is the only way to survive.

by The Checkout Girl

December 19, 2011

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Ghost babies

TLC won’t be changing the name of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s reality show, 19 Kids and Counting, any time soon. But, even without the circus of so many children and a reality show, miscarriage can be heartbreaking.

by The Checkout Girl

December 12, 2011

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The Christmas boohoos

If there’s one attribute of the Christmas holiday that sticks out more than anything else, it’s the music...the MUSIC! But not all Christmas songs bring a smile to your face and a spring to your step: some songs can make you blubber like a baby. One song in particular gets the Checkout Girl every time.

by The Checkout Girl

December 9, 2011

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Who’s That Swirl?

What would Jesus do? A church in Kentucky has banned interracial couples from worshipping together. I say the Bluegrass State has it wrong. What say you?

by The Checkout Girl

December 5, 2011

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