I love movies, always have. A decent rom-com, a good tear-jerker, even a few sci-fi movies have kept me entertained, but there’s one genre that I just can’t get into…zombie movies. During quarantine I started watching a movie called World War Z. Basically it was ten million zombies versus roughly 14 people, so it was…
The Gift of Wood…it’s not just for beavers
I am and always have been a terrible gift-giver. Gift cards, girly bath stuff, a necklace…those were always my go-to gifts. All of them safe, but unfortunately also rather generic. Back when I was a wee lass (that means a lot younger) I think my gift-giving peaked when I wanted to buy my grandmother something…
Happy Earth Day 2022
In my best Golden Girls Sophia voice…”Picture it, Washington, D.C. 1990, it was the 20th anniversary of Earth Day and I was right there on the National Mall standing shoulder to shoulder with Burt Reynolds”. OK, so Burt Reynolds wasn’t really there, at least not anywhere I could see him, but now I’m picturing the…
Top 5 Ways to Go Green and Save Money in Your Shower
If you read my article, Top 5 Ways to Go Green and Save Money in Your Bathroom, you’ll know I’m a big fan of Top 5 lists. In fact, here are my Top 5 reasons why I love making Top 5 lists They’re about half the size of a Top 10 list, so you can…
It’s time for your Closet-oscopy
4 truths and a lie… The average person has 148 pieces of clothing. Clothes can take up to 40 years to decompose The amount of money people spend on clothes, footwear and jewelry each year is equivalent to the combined GDP of the 126 poorest countries in the world. Aristotle coined the phrase “does a…
Top 5 Ways to Go Green and Save Money in Your Bathroom
According to the internet, we all love Top 5 lists. You can find the Top 5 underrated movies to watch, the Top 5 vacation destinations, the Top 5 kitchen gadgets, the Top 5 dogs for apartment living…you name it and somebody has ranked it. I was going to preface my own Top 5 list with…
Don’t be an airhead…check out AirThreds
You can really find almost anything on the internet, from the bizarrely educational (a bear who poops prime numbers), the awkwardly funny (snippets of conversations overheard in New York), the uncomfortably accurate (an artificial intelligence genie) or the downright disturbing (turn your face into a trippy music video). Fortunately, what you can also find are…
Make it a MOM-entous day
My hubby makes the same Mother’s Day joke every year. “I’d love to help you repeat the act that made you a mother in the first place.” I tell him we can discuss that any other Sunday. Mother’s Day is mine. My version of the perfect Mother’s Day doesn’t involve fancy dinners, chocolates or extravagant…