I don’t do much cookbook-based cooking these days, and I don’t usually have the time or desire to spend more than about twenty minutes prepping dinner. I’m also trying to eat healthier, so grabbing last-minute precooked meals isn’t really an option. I’m hoping that if I share some more of my dinner menus, you’ll do […]

Moving on from bronzer to all-over color: a few years ago I was obsessed with finding a store that carried Jergen’s Natural Glow, because I had found all these rave reviews of it online and every SINGLE drugstore within 25 miles was sold out of the stuff. I drove all over town and finally ordered […]

Disregarding Seattle’s predictably cantankerous weather this afternoon (rain, on a holiday weekend? OH WHAT A SHOCKER), it’s starting to feel more and more like summer might actually be on the way, and thus it is time to do something about my cave-dweller’s skin—without, of course, actually exposing it to sunlight.
(Remember lying out in the sun, […]

I’ve been working on improving my fitness recently, which has developed into an oft-interrupted routine of sorts featuring Turbo Jam, jogging, and the “Inhale” yoga show on the Oxygen network. I also try and do some toning exercises a few times a week, and while we have a decent selection of traditional gym equipment in […]

Despair has just launched a clothing line, and they’ll be updating it every Wednesday (“. . . we’re kicking the program off with over a dozen new items for obnoxious brats, disaffected college students and the ultimately embittered adults they will become!”).
I’m particularly thrilled to see they have kidswear—that “May Spontaneously Combust” t-shirt is perfect […]