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Looking for something original to do on Valentine’s Day? Skip the flowers and chocolate. You can always buy those on Discount Flowers and Chocolates Day (February 15th). Instead, try something that will really get your partner going. Continue reading
The losses came quickly for me. My Dad, the rock of our family, had gone into the hospital with swelling in his legs and pain in his hip. At most, we thought that they would say that his heart disease had worsened and that he needed his other hip to be replaced. What we didn’t expect, was the diagnosis: metastatic cancer with only a couple of weeks to live. Continue reading
If you’re looking for a natural-looking lip product that also adds protection to your lips and has a lovely scent, Vaseline Lip Therapy in Rosy Lips is an excellent drug store product to consider. It adds a subtle pink tint to your lips and smells absolutely divine, with a light rose and herbal scent. This is a new (to the US) scent to the current line-up of Vaseline Lip Therapy products you can find at most drugstores. (The UK has had this product for a while, but it is packaged in a small tin instead of a tiny plastic tub.) Continue reading
You walk in the gym and see that this is today’s program:
Warm Up:
Row 500 Meters
2 Rounds:
Partner Junkyard Dog
Banded Side Steps (20)
20 Mountain Climbers
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A man can commit himself to many things, a dream, an ideal, a religion, a party, a nation, or diet soda. For myself, I am dedicated to recreating the Emerald City from the Wizard of Oz in miniature, out of festive toothpicks. But I also make a mean chili. The recipe is as follows. Continue reading
Do you ever buy a whole cooked rotisserie or fried chicken? If you don’t eat the whole bird in one sitting, it can be tiring eating the same leftovers for a few extra meals. This chicken tostada recipe is a great way to give your chicken leftovers a delicious second chance. You can also substitute the chicken with pulled pork and take it to the next level. Continue reading
What happens if you take the Internet famous “Stuff White People Like” and compare that data with which cities have the most of the things white people like? You get Movoto’s top ten cities white people like. Continue reading
This is the final post of the series that examines topics from the perspective of the characters in the upcoming novel, The Paths of Marriage which will be for sale starting 1 October 2014.
“The Narrative of Marriage” is written from the point of view of the character, Pooja Deva.
Kids these days have no filter. Especially the hipsters. In fact, I believe one of their favorite hashtags is quite literally #nofilter. It’s ridiculous.
Many of those #nofilter hipster students of mine have somehow decided it’s okay to pry into the personal life of their professor (me) in lieu of researching traffic circles for their next Intro to Urban Studies assignment. So, in an effort to get the legions of intro students to put down their iPhones and pay attention to my brilliance, here is one aspect of the answer to that insufferably complicated question:
“Why did you agree to have an arranged marriage?”
Hello, Superbowl Sunday! Although the closest I get to following a team is re-watching Friday Night Lights, the day does lend itself to festive party food – if only because it’s still dark as pitch outside.
Bring on the snack food! Continue reading