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This week in reveiew: I made headbands! For about the same cost of buying a single one in a store, so I was thrifty AND crafty. I’m not normally the craft type (though I do admire those who are), so yes, I’m a little proud of myself. Maybe I’ll move onto hair clips, but I [...]

This past week was move-in time for the freshmen at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon. If there was a resounding cry uttered from the lips of Pittsburghers it was “AVOID OAKLAND“, the neighborhood of both schools, which was a mad house of freshmen, their parents, and everything these 18-year-olds owned, including a few ponies [...]

In case you missed it by either sleeping the week away or avoiding internet news all together, the cover story from the New York Times Magazine was a pretty big hot topic, in that it was at the top of the most-emailed list for days and has been the subject of numerous articles since- What [...]

If all restaurants adopted this policy, it would eradicate bad days. If all restaurants adopted this policy, the world may be faced with an ice cone shortage. That, my friends, would be a dismal world.

Andrea Disaster, 25, is a fan of the Sunday Routines column in the New York Times. Even though she’s not a media mogul or a Broadway star or hell, even a New Yorker, she wanted to share with you her Sunday routine, if nothing else to give her the opportunity to write in third person [...]

In addition to my grey hair, another thing I’ve learned to make peace with is the fact that not everyone who meets me will like me. That may sound a little weird or not that big of a deal to you. Maybe one day the fact hit you and you just went back to whatever [...]

“I know I’m alone if I’m with or without you But just being around you offers me another form of relief When the loneliness leads to bad dreams And the bad dreams lead me to calling you And I call you and say, ‘C’mere!’” Yeah, I’ve been listening to a lot of Rilo Kiley this [...]

I headed out last Monday on my birthday to the Red White & Blue Thrift Store assuming it would be closed, since most things were in observance of Independence Day (a fact I’ve grown used to after all these years). I mean, come on, do thrift stores get more American than the Red White & [...]

“How do you do it and make it seem effortless? When it’s all the stupid things, so overwhelming to me. Like paying bills or showing up for work early. Or laughing at your jokes.” Good job with predicting my mid-twenties, Jenny and Blake. Seen here and inspired/related.

Sometimes I have to remind myself that things won’t go as planned not matter how solid and swimmingly everything is going up until that certain point. It’s not that I haven’t figured this out on my own yet, but when I’m looking forward to something, I can have tail-wagging puppy-dog enthusiasm. And unlike the puppies, [...]