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See this at: nytimes.com| Added on 06/20/06

TRAFFIC on the Yahoo parents' group known as Peachhead, based in Los Angeles, slowed for a few hours last Sunday. One mother desperately needed a large portrait painted from a photograph of four children. Another was ballyhooing a Pacific Palisades... See more

TRAFFIC on the Yahoo parents' group known as Peachhead, based in Los Angeles, slowed for a few hours last Sunday. One mother desperately needed a large portrait painted from a photograph of four children. Another was ballyhooing a Pacific Palisades dental office "where you get all kinds of spa services while you get your teeth worked on." The real action, however, was happening off line at a park in Culver City where more than 500 members of the group — some pushing expensive baby carriages, others in teeny Elmo T-shirts (and those were just the moms) — were stepping away from their computers for the fourth annual Peachhead Day. Peachhead is the offhand brainchild of Linda Perry, who started it to e-mail 15 friends in her new-mothers group after her daughter Amber was born in 1997. "None of us knew much about dealing with babies," said Ms. Perry, 41, who, with two children, is as exuberant as a high school cheerleader. The group now has 3,000 members, and Ms. Perry bookends her... See less

Highlights: Parents and children in peach-colored bracelets ($5 each, to help finance a commercial Peachhead Web site) posed with her for photographs or told her how grateful they were for the group.

See this at: jewishworldreview.co...| Added on 05/03/06

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Last week a couple celebrated a wedding anniversary. Not just any anniversary, their 80th anniversary. It's a world's record for the longest marriage by a living couple. Experts believe this will stand as the... See more

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Last week a couple celebrated a wedding anniversary. Not just any anniversary, their 80th anniversary. It's a world's record for the longest marriage by a living couple. Experts believe this will stand as the longest marriage until one day the record is shattered by Kevin and Britney Federline. The couple, Percy and Florence Arrowsmith, God bless 'em, are ages 105 and 100, respectively, and also hold the record for oldest aggregate age of a married couple. They reside in Hereford, England. And I'm happy to report that unlike those "World's Oldest People" who are always in the news on their birthdays and attribute their longevity to things like "drinking a quart of whiskey, smoking a carton of Lucky's, and playing with lit firecrackers and wrestling rabid coyotes every day" the Arrowsmiths list healthy reasons for their success. They say they don't sleep on an argument, and always hold hands before going to bed. Sage wisdom we all could benefit from.... See less