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In my household, we take our holidays pretty seriously. For Halloween, we creep out the lawn with life size monsters, a graveyard and a kids playhouse we converted into a haunted house. There’s even scary music blaring from the porch speakers that makes toddlers...
It’s not much of a reach to say I am a big fan of manifestos and slogans. After all, I’ve made a career out of creating them. But recently I was reminded of my obsession with the written word when a guest remarked that she was getting a kick out of reading the signs I...
Hot sex is good. Hot coffee is even better. I used to lust over hard pecs and slow kisses. Three kids and two thousand sleepless nights later, here are a few of the things I’ve found myself fantasizing about: 1. Scotch tape Just one roll that is mine all mine, that...
I have this quote hanging in my bedroom, beneath a ledge I call my dream shelf: “Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get, you’ve got to make yourself.” I can’t remember where I first saw it. Could have been a fortune cookie. Or a...
Let’s all resolve to stop whining and start thinking positive before I smack you. It’s resolution time again, and everyone I know is concocting their admirable, if not impossible, goals for the New Year: “I’m going to lose 50 pounds. By February.” “I’m going to climb...
The world is ruled by freaks and geeks. True fact. That boy from your third grade class who used to dissect flies with his pen cap? He’s now an MIT grad making robotic limbs, and the ‘popular kids’ who made fun of him are bagging his groceries. Weirdos are, by...
Whooping it up with my girls. And Captain Sparkle.‘What is tonight’s challenge going to be?’ my bestie Melanie asked me as we sipped our vodka sodas, leaning against the bar that was holding us up. Our legs weren’t buckling from intoxication, but rather from the...
The supportive father of a 20 year-old girl from Cherry Hill, NJ was photographed wearing a t-shirt displaying the rules for dating his daughter, and the pic has gone totally viral. Wow. Her body, her rules. I kind of love that. The man's daughter, college student...
Always have some running away money.This was the slice of optimistic advice I got from my Aunt right before I got married. A mother of four, she’d been married for two decades to a guy she caught making out with her babysitter. In her car. While she was out working to...
Let’s all resolve to stop whining and start thinking positive before I smack you.It’s resolution time again, and everyone I know is concocting their admirable, if not impossible, goals for the New Year:“I’m going to lose 50 pounds. By February.”“I’m going to climb Mt....