REVIEW | Oxiclean: Seriously?
This is a compensated review by BlogHer and OxiClean.
Yes, but how does it work on cat vomit?
Not a question I ever thought would pass my lips, but I took the Oxiclean Max Force Power Pak review quite seriously. When one lives in a home with seven kids (COUNT THEM: SEVEN) and a minor petting zoo, [...]
Graduation season is upon us
I just wanted to remind everybody that it’s graduation season and the deadline for ordering announcements, caps and gowns is January 8. So if you don’t mind, hurry up there you super parents, and get on that whole reversing-the-rotation-of-the-Earth thing, because apparently my teenager thinks that I’m some kind of superhero and CAN DO EVERYTHING, [...]
Comfort food attack
This weather has totally done it to me. I am so over-the-top into comfort foods, it’s almost scary. I last wrote about flipping through my mom’s Women’s Club cookbooks, and finding the most interesting, fatty-fat-fat-heart-attack-developing recipes in the universe.
This week, I offer you one better: I have modded (to use a gaming phrase from my [...]
Genius
From TED: “Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses — and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person “being” a genius, all of us “have” a genius. It’s a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.”
Old-school cooking
My pleas for help were answered and, as usual, my mom went way above and beyond the call of duty.
I wanted to make a casserole, one of the many my mom made pretty regularly throughout my childhood. It was creamy (naturally) and had ground beef (of course) and vegetables (well, water chestnuts and onions, whatever) [...]
