If you grew up in New York City’s tri-state area in the 70s and 80s, you were probably sung to by the lovely Carole and Paula on the TV show “The Magic Garden.” For some reason these wonderful ladies came to mind this morning and I thought I’d share their awesome theme song–a perfect happy-morning treat.…

There’s a funny news story floating around about the upcoming nuptials of Kelly Hildebrandt and Kelly Hildebrandt. The two 20-somethings met on Facebook and are now getting hitched after eight months of dating. It got me thinking about the name patterns of people I’ve dated. No one else named Valerie Reiss, but I’ve almost only…

My brain has been buzzing through work and life and tasks and thoughts and feelings and exercise and talking and walking all week. And it is tired. Friday, or Fried-day as I like to call it is often like the last day of school before summer, every week. So what’s a girl to do to…

The developed world just might be divided into two groups: breakfast believers and non-believers. Some find morning meals unpleasant–their stomachs aren’t awake enough to be hungry or they don’t like breakfast food (!) or they’re trying to save calories for other things. The converts, though, have read the studies after studies that say breakfast improves cognition,…

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