June 8 is National Best Friends Day. Best friends are good for everything from a shoulder to cry on to a partner in crime when it’s time for that sort of thing. And she’ll pretty much always take the kids for you when you’re going to pull your hair out. As Oprah Winfrey once said, […]
It snuck up on us! Bikini Season is here and we’re not ready! Do they know our pain, those flat of belly, taut of skin young girls who can slip on a swimsuit never wondering if they look good because they always look good? Do they know how we spend countless hours under unfavorable light […]
Neither a vegetable, fruit, nor a root like a potato, corn is a type of seed much like rice. The corn plant is native to Mexico, where it grew from a variety of wild grass called teosinte. Corn has been farmed since 7500 B.C., and as its growers became more and more savvy, they were […]
It kind of feels like every time we sneeze there’s a new Smartphone on the market, or some new tech gadget for navigating through life. It can be mindboggling. Crazy futuristic devices that we used to see only on Saturday morning cartoons and adventure shows now have their real world counterparts. There are phones or radios […]
Soccer: without the seemingly endless American baseball season, the adrenaline of basketball or the fiendish enthusiasm that fills so many living rooms during American football season, it might not be on our screens most of the time. But once every four years, the international soccer tournament washes over the entire globe, complete with a mascot, […]
Quitting smoking is one of the hardest things to do. It may even be one of the hardest things you’ll ever do in your life. May 31 is World No Tobacco Day, and we’re all about increasing awareness about this nasty habit, and how to quit smoking so that our community can experience a better […]
There are a million ways to be a great dad and just as many reasons why we love the men in our children’s lives. That said, it can be challenging to find celebrity role models when it comes to fatherhood. Not every male celeb with spawn is present, accountable and as loving as we would […]
Just as we were trying to become bikini ready, here comes June 6, National Donut Day. Held the first Friday of each June, National Donut Day was established in 1938 by the Salvation Army to honor “donut dollies,” the women who served donuts to the soldiers during WWI. Add a few years and a few […]
May 31 is World No Tobacco Day. Most of us know the dangers of smoking—from emphysema to cancer, even premature aging—and yet, a smoker is born every day. It seems that, despite the well known risks and dangers associated with smoking cigarettes, the temptation is too strong and the addiction to powerful to say no. […]