I’ll be honest, Multiple Sclerosis (MS) wasn’t a disease I understood, or even thought about a decade ago. I lumped it with all those “random” illnesses with initials that some lesser-known celebrity was diagnosed with, or that was a cause adopted by a bigger-name celebrity. I didn’t know anyone with MS, so it didn’t affect… Continue Reading Support the Fight Against MS
It’s hard when the various blog awards come out – I don’t know whether to participate because there never seems to be an appropriate category. I am not a beauty blog – yes I’ll write about it but I am not one to go gaga over the new MAC line or Marc Jacobs perfume. As… Continue Reading The sexiest thing you can own – Yourself
Hello all! I am back from Miami. Due to the unbelievably cold weather in Miami, I am not sporting much of a sunkissed glow (it rained, it was cloudy, it was horrifically windy, and it was never over 70 degrees or so), but my sister and I had fun on our weekend girls’ trip to… Continue Reading I Won a Weekend Girls’ Trip to Miami!
“I liked that better than that mean show with that lady with the silver streaks in her hair,” said my husband after watching the premiere episode of “How to Look Good Naked” on the Lifetime Network. “They let the hot girl stay hot.” Yes, they did let “the hot girl stay hot,” but this show… Continue Reading Review – How to Look Good Naked
December 1st is World AIDS Day, a day created by the World Health Organization in 1988 to raise awareness and focus people’s attention on the global AIDS epidemic. In 2007, there are over 33 million people living with AIDS, 2.5 million of that number are children under the age of 15. 2.5 million people were… Continue Reading World AIDS Day
What if every blog wrote about the same topic on the same day? what impact would it have? What change could us bloggers make? This coming Monday, October 15th, join me and over 10,000 bloggers and write about the same topic – the environment. It’s a topic that we’re all talking about, and many of… Continue Reading 2007 Blog Action Day
As you know, I worked for The Body Shop for two years in the stores and for almost two years as an at-home consultant. The Body Shop is a company that sells great products, but more importantly has beautiful ethics and has done amazing things for people and communities all around the globe. Today Dame… Continue Reading Remembering Anita Roddick
Tammy Faye Messner died this weekend, and the world lost an amazing woman who never doubted her faith, never let money or fame change her. Through her life, until her death she was positive, full of love and compassion and humor. She never judged based upon lifestyle, race, sexual orientation or illness. The world has… Continue Reading In Memory of Tammy Faye
So tomorrow I am going to the theater (for those of you in DC, we are going to dinner first at Notti Bianche, and then walking to the Kennedy Center) to see Phantom of the Opera. I have seen lots of theater performances, but never Phantom (though I did see the movie but that doesn’t… Continue Reading Reader Survey