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Book Review: Rightsizing Your Life: Simplifying Your Surroundings While Kee
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Rightsizing Your Life : Simplifying Your Surroundings While Keeping What Matters Most By Ciji Ware (Springboard Press, 279 pages) I’m not sure when the desire to organize become so acute in 21st century America, but all of a sudden stores devoted to the aim of giving everything you own its very own custom-sized ... More About: Book Review , Review , Book
Words of Wisdom from the Cashmere Mafia: “Don’t Tell a Woman to
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Last Sunday night, I got to indulge in one of my favorite treats - I put my little one to bed, got in my comfy chair with a big blanket and a snack of yummy caramel corn and watched the premier of a new trashy TV show (sheer heaven if you ask me). Cashmere Mafia ... More About: Words , Wisdom , Woman , Words of Wisdom
Cougars vs. Cradle Robbers
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I have been giving my friend Sam a hard time about dating younger women for years. When I wasn’t laughing at him for being the walking cliché of a successful guy dating a receptionist half his age, I was judging him for not dating smart women. The relationships never last ... More About: Cougars , Robbers , Cradle
Put Down the Self-Help Books! Yes, that means “The Secret” an
0000-00-00 00:00:00 I am just as guilty as the next person, of facing a life problem with a self-help book. Curled cozily on the couch in my pajamas, with unkempt hair and a hot mug of tea, I have read each page as though it were glowing with golden prophecies, convinced that if ... More About: Books , The Secret , Secret
Cruising for Color
0000-00-00 00:00:00 It’s insane how fast the stores try to seduce you back into shopping. Just when you swore the hobby off completely, they invent the “cruise line” and boom you feel dowdy in all your winter clothes. Spring is in the air or at least on the cover of every magazine ... More About: Color
Nobody gets out of here unscathed. Not even Oprah.
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Indulge me for a moment here and let’s talk about Fame. I’m sure all you Famous People won’t mind. But if you do, please feel free to leave the room. Now as the rest of us non-fame-kissed folks realize, there are aspects to celebrity that plainly suck. The constant scrutiny. The ... More About: Oprah
Seriously, Who Will Take Care of the Babyboomers?
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Who doesn't worry that they may end up in a hospital, plugged into all kinds of tubes and machines, and there isn't a nurse to be seen in your moment of need? It's been quite a while since I have actually cruised the halls of a hospital...my exposure is limited to 'Grey's Anatomy' ... More About: Care
So How Do Companies Market to Baby Boomers?
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Marketing and advertising companies are salivating at the idea of separating boomers from their cash (this is not new) – but according to Boomers an article in the January 6, 2008 New York Times, they’re not quite sure how to do it. Turns out aging boomers – because, after all we ... More About: Baby , Companies , Market , Baby Boomers
Customized Hormones Made Especially For You
0000-00-00 00:00:00 It was a bleak July 2002 when the Women's Health Initiative announced that replacement hormones raised the risk of heart disease, breast cancer, stroke, blood clots and dementia. Many women stopped their hormones cold turkey and more physicians stopped prescribing them....and now where would women get relief from those nagging hot flashes and ... More About: Made , Hormones
Latest Links: Romney’s still in the race, a child star passes, and Ap
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Romney Wins Michigan. Edges out McCain. Brad Renfro dies at 25. Film credits included The Client, Apt Pupil. Pictures of the Week from Time Magazine. Always stunning. Apple unveils MacBook Air, the world's skinniest laptop. American Idol premieres new season! More About: Links , Race , Star , Child , Romney
Shopping Online Just Got Easier with Size Me Up
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Size Me Up, finally! A new website founded by Melissa Adelman, helps us figure out our sizes from one store to the next. For those of you that are tired of not knowing what size you are and find it too scary to shop on line because you don’t know ... More About: Shopping , Online , Size
The Oprah Channel, Coming Soon
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Oprahs' about to get bigger. Her newly announced cable channel will launch mid 2009 and it's appropriately titled OWN - The Oprah Winfrey Network. This next phase to total airwave domination comes from a partnership with Discovery Communications, and her venture will replace the unsuccessful Discovery Health Channel . Let's look at some numbers: New channel ... More About: Oprah
No Child Left Behind…There’s More Cheating than Ever, and the
0000-00-00 00:00:00 As a parent, I have had many a conversation with my child about cheating - whether it be at school, in Little League or at home playing Monopoly. You know, the usual "cheaters-never-win; winners-never-cheat" discourse. Well apparently we should not only be drilling in the consequences of cheating to our ... More About: Cheating , Left , Child , No Child Left Behind
A Rusty Brown Golden Globes
0000-00-00 00:00:00 And the winner is.... not us. For anyone who has asked during the few months of the strike, "Are Hollywood writers really necessary?" please take this Golden Globes as a Red Bull jolt of reality. It's bad enough when smart people improv at awards shows, so image my unease when I tuned into the press ... More About: Brown
Not So Golden Awards
0000-00-00 00:00:00 As most of you know, the Golden Globes didn’t really happen this year. There were winners but no one came to the party, no dresses to see, no hairdos, no tipsy actors. Hollywood, like America, is at war. No one dies in this war, but some people have lost their ... More About: Awards
There’s No Crying In Politics
0000-00-00 00:00:00 You’ve heard the famous movie line, “there’s no crying in baseball,” right? Well, move over baseball. Last week, in the middle of a grueling campaign primary race, in a small New Hampshire coffee shop, Hillary Clinton rounded out the last of her “in-formal” town meetings. When asked by an undecided voter ... More About: Politics , Crying
Hillary Clinton can cry on the job but you can’t, What makes single girls
0000-00-00 00:00:00 So according to this piece in the Sacramento Bee, crying might have helped Senator Hillary Clinton win over New Hampshire voters (although there hasn’t been a compelling empirical analysis showing the correlation between her tear shedding and vote garnering), but word on the street is that the rest of us ... More About: Girls , Single
The corner office or a boyfriend? Study says that young women put career f
More articles from this author:0000-00-00 00:00:00 On the hit MTV series The Hills Lauren (LC) is offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go to Paris by her boss at Teen Vogue. Instead of jumping at it, like any sane person trying to pursue a career in fashion would, LC decides to spend the summer at the beach ... More About: Women , Office , Study , Boyfriend , Career 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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