Ex-Smoker Chronicles: One Night at a Bar
“Wait for me by the bar? I’ll only be a minute.” A minute, right, I think as she makes her away across the crowded dance…
Read on“Wait for me by the bar? I’ll only be a minute.” A minute, right, I think as she makes her away across the crowded dance…
Read onStanding is sooo 2013. Not everyone may know this, but author Ernest Hemingway was a fan of the standing desk method. This may sound a…
Read onWhile it’s easy to grab a bottle of Veuve Clicquot on your way to the party, hostess gifts should never be an afterthought. Do yourself…
Read onDowntown LA is home to many historical buildings, including theaters, that have served various purposes over the past century. Many of them are now nightclubs…
Read onA friend and I sit on a badly made bench outside of a closed Italian restaurant, windows looking onto laminated gingham tablecloths and napkins folded…
Read onNew research confirms what many have long believed: the mind is a powerful thing, and it can have an effect on your physical health. And…
Read onI once dated a boy who was, by all accounts, a clinical narcissist. He had an uncanny way of taking any point of conversation and…
Read onIt wouldn’t be the holidays without people getting mad over nothing. In corner one: Kmart living up to its “Big” honorific. Kmart commercials continue their…
Read on“Some Things Never Seem to F***ing Work” is the name of just one of the seven funky-fresh tracks that R&B artist Solange Knowles released last…
Read onHolidays mean spending lots of time with family, which, let’s face it, means most of you are going to need lots of booze. Sometimes it’s…
Read onApparently there’s a lot more that you can do with that tub of household bleach that sits under the kitchen sink than you think. Aside…
Read onOne of my longtime friends got hitched this past weekend. Now I’ve been to my share of weddings, but her ceremony was a bit different…
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