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Personal memoirs are all the rage in publishing these days, for better or for worse. The great ones prove that truth really is stranger than fiction: Some of my personal favorites include Augusten Burroughs' Dry and Mary Karr's The Liars' Club. Other, meanwhile, have actually turned out to be fiction — I'm looking at you, James Frey. Whether they're sentimental or just plain scary, memoirs can Read more
After last Tuesday's DVD dry spell, this week's offerings are very exciting. All of these new DVDs have been getting plenty of buzz. Here are three worth updating those Netflix queues for! Running With Scissors This adaptation of the memoir by Augusten Burroughs is tender, funny, and heartbreaking. Joseph Cross is endearing as Augusten, struggling to grow up in an unstable home environment with Read more
Even when the product is supposedly "disposable," you can always reuse it. Wise Bread shares awesome ways to reuse these 21 disposable products. It’s said that we live in a disposable society. But the word "disposable" is a misnomer. Disposable is considered throwaway, something you use once and dump, regardless of the life that may be left in it. As a frugal shopper with a concern for the Read more
We are pumped to share one of our favorite stories from Health.com here on FitSugar. By Su Reid-St. John If you’ve just eked your millionth sun salutation out of that thin, raggedy rectangle you call a mat, it might be time to spring for a new one. But what to do with the old? Certainly, you could recycle it or even donate it if it isn’t too far gone, or you could tap your inner Martha and Read more
The back-to-school ads may be filled with crayons and paper, but a mom of a house filled with school-aged kids knows there's more to the list than that. Mama needs to add a few key items to that list to ensure that everything runs smoothly throughout the year. After filling your cart with scissors, glue, hand sanitizers, and everything else the teachers recommend, check out our list of must-have Read more
When it comes to salon etiquette, we all have a general idea of what to do. Don't run with scissors, keep your clothes on under the styling cape, and never ask the stylist why his hair color is so weird. But what about the finer points of in-salon behavior? Fouling up subtler salon social mores can really annoy your stylist, making it hard for her to do her job, and making it much more likely Read more
We should have seen this coming, we just couldn't expect it to look so cool. When designers Jake McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez debuted their Pre-Fall collection, they referenced a road trip through the American southwest that inspired their tribal prints, giving us blown-out ikat and textured stripes that made you consider taking scissors to those yoga blankets. For fall, Jake and Lazaro Read more
