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Get your skin ready for spring!
Winter can be rough on your skin, no matter which part of the country you call home.
Luckily, spring is s l o w l y creeping back. And s l o w l y, I've begun to remove some of the "shrouds" that layered my body this winter. Know what I found underneath?
Yucky, scaly, dry winter [...]
"The Little Black Dress" for Your Ears
I'm not a morning person.
I set the timer on my coffee pot at night only to add extra snooze alarms to my alarm clock in the morning. At all costs, I start my day earlier because I know it'll be tough to get me moving.
If I there's a step that can be skipped when I'm getting ready [...]
A B+ Mom and proud of it!
A few years ago, I was lucky enough to attend a great working Mom's lunch.
Ann Dunnewold, Ph.D., was the keynote speaker, and is the author of Even June Cleaver Would Forget the Juice Box: Cut Yourself Some Slack and Still Raise Great Kids in the Age of Extreme Parenting.
A long story short, she spoke [...]
"Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book."
~ Anonymous
I am a book nerd.
At every stage in my life, I can remember curling up with a good book. Staying awake into the wee hours of the morning, I'd transplant myself into other lives I'd never live, escaping whatever real world stress existed for me.
As a girl, my favorites were Blubber and Deenie and the entire Baby-sitters Club series. [...]
Have your lips got the winter blues?
Cold winters can wreak havoc on your skin.
They can be equally harsh on your lips.
My secret to keeping my lips silky smooth?
Mary Kay's Satin Lips® set.
A couple of years ago, I found myself at a friend's house for cocktails on a Friday night in the dead of winter. Out of character for me, I found myself without chapstick [...]
To wax, or not to wax…
I am a hairy woman.
There. I've said it. There's nothing I can do to change it, but I don't have to like it.
Several years ago, I found that I was allergic to waxing. Three days prior to standing in at a friend's wedding, my eyebrows broke out in big, puffy red patches. I thought it was a [...]
Yoga: Peace of mind…and spirit
Four years ago, when I went back to work after having my first baby, it didn't take me long to find it was hard to make time for myself. At that point, I really didn't want it. In every spare minute after work, I wanted to snuggle my baby, then play with my toddler, then [...]
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