“I need you to put your shoes on, Punky. It’s time to go,” I said the other day as I scooped up my purse and phone and strapped on my sandals. My ten year old, a little churlish at being rushed out the door, pulled her sneakers from the shoe basket by the front door […]

FRUIT FLIES are unavoidable– Every single summer, I end up with at least one infestation in my kitchen. It starts out innocently enough — I’ll notice a fruit fly or two buzzing around a bunch of bananas on the kitchen counter. They’re annoying, but harmless. In a few days, though, the fruit flies have multiplied. […]

I was 21 years old and had just been hired out of college as a TV news reporter at a station in Columbia, South Carolina. I’d be shooting, writing, and editing my own stories– or at least, that’s what the news director told me when I accepted the job. When I arrived for my first […]

I’m all about finding bargains. But one thing I’m willing to spend up on – if necessary – is makeup. After all, you can’t really put a price on a perfect matte black eyeliner, or an eyeshadow that exactly matches your eyes, or a lipstick in a to-die-for shade… If I can find an inexpensive […]

When my Anthropologie catalog arrives in the mail, it’s a true cause for celebration- I can thumb through its pages and blissfully lose myself in a mind-blowing alternate reality that Tim Burton himself would envy, a place where gigantic scissors, paper chickens, and four foot houses are completely normal. But don’t take my word for […]