How to Take the Perfect Couple’s Picture

How to Take the Perfect Couple’s Picture

Love / Love Tips

A picture is worth a thousand words. However, only one often comes to mind when you and your honey are snapped from the wrong perspective. The happy couple quickly becomes unhappy upon seeing all of those unflattering photos. If you’re sick of “yucking” it up every time you spot a…

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First-Date Convos to Avoid

First-Date Convos to Avoid

Love / Love Tips

There’s hardly anything more nerve-wracking than a first date with someone you don’t know very well. It’s hard to say whether awkward silence or saying the wrong thing is more embarrassing. Good conversation is the ideal during a first date, but there are a few topics that could send a…

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The Rules of Facebook Unfriending

The Rules of Facebook Unfriending

Love / Love Tips

The world of social media can be a strange place when it comes to conducting relationships. You may learn more than you care to know about a casual acquaintance or inadvertently find out something unsavory about someone you thought you knew well. Perhaps you consistently get unfavorable feedback on items…

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Easy Ways to Boost HDL

Easy Ways to Boost HDL

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

It’s common knowledge that high cholesterol is a major health hazard. But how many people take into consideration good cholesterol? Good cholesterol, known as HDL, helps fight against heart disease. According to research, HDL cholesterol is made up of protein, lipids and cholesterol. The HDL drives out the LDL, also…

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Get the Runway Look

Get the Runway Look

Style & Beauty / Beauty tips

Most of the looks you see during Fashion Week, regardless of where or what season, are so avant-garde that they’re difficult to adapt to and work into your regular wardrobe or makeup regimen. Definitely not everyday looks, right? Perhaps, but with a little creativity, there are some takeaways you can…

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Travel Toiletries: On-the-Go Must-haves

Travel Toiletries: On-the-Go Must-haves

Style & Beauty / Beauty

Most people think of airline travel when they hear “travel toiletries”, yet many of these pocket-sized conveniences are just as at home in your purse as in a suitcase! Miniature versions of our favorite cosmetic and hygiene products have become increasingly popular given the new TSA guidelines for flying with…

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Can You Release Stress With Reiki?

Can You Release Stress With Reiki?

Horoscope / New Age

by James Calvin Stress is an evil six-letter word that can be so harmful to your health. Work can be stressful, traffic jams can be stressful, raising a family can be stressful, and sticking to a strict budget can be stressful. Stress causes headaches, muscle aches, irritability, insomnia and a…

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Must-Read: 10 Symptoms of RA

Must-Read: 10 Symptoms of RA

Diet & Fitness / Wellness

By the year 2030, it is estimated that there will be 67 million adults in America with a diagnosis of a form of arthritis. Millions of these cases will be rheumatoid arthritis, more commonly known as RA. Even more frightening is the fact that millions of cases will go undiagnosed. …

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Fruit Facts: Packing it in

Fruit Facts: Packing it in

Diet & Fitness / Diet Tips

Fruit is a perfect diet food, especially for those of us who have a mean sweet tooth. It can curb cravings, boost antioxidants and offers a multitude of other health benefits. But the kind of fruit you eat is almost less important than how it’s packaged. Whether you prefer canned,…

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Secrets of Getting Organized

Secrets of Getting Organized

Diet & Fitness / Mind & Body

Grouping, labeling, sorting, removing, ordering and arranging our precious treasures, at home or work, is an ongoing process or an awful mess. The reality of it’s better to practice “staying” organized than “getting” organized, especially if you want to avoid that overwhelming feeling you get as you “step up” into…

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