As reward for the longest weekend on record, I watched the film Running with Scissors on Saturday night. I read the book ages ago but felt the movie version was so much more palatable and amusing.
The mother character, played brilliantly by Annette Benning, was a heap more sympathetic and familiar in film than in prose. [...]

Do you love free samples? I do. I’m the person who scours Sam’s Club on Saturday mornings and can make a meal out of the free food they hand out. It’s an art form, but you can put together all 5 food groups on a good day.
Even better, though, is that I have been using [...]

My daughter recently potty trained, and as is true much of the time she got the concept of peeing in the potty pretty quickly, but it took the promise of a doll house to get her to do number two. About a month and a half ago we got the Fisher Price Loving Family [...]

I don’t know if you’re anything like me, but when I find a product I absolutely love, especially cosmetics, I’ll go and buy a lot of it! You know, in case they’d quit making it all of a sudden (which seems to frequently happen to me). I doubt they’ll quit making this lip balm anytime [...]

When my Dyson Slim vacuum cleaner arrived, I couldn’t wait to try it out because the Dyson brand’s reputation led me to believe it would be an amazing piece of floor-cleaning technology. I wasn’t disappointed.
My husband put it together and he remarked on how well engineered it was and how well the parts fit together. [...]

The Props and Pans team members were sent samples of Nature Valley Crunchy Oats ‘N Honey Cereal. We all tried it but did we all like it? Keep reading to find out!

I was excited to receive my Nature Valley Cereal sample in the mail. I like their granola bars, though we don’t eat food [...]

DHL, you put my family through hell! Why did your delivery man ask my children our house number? I realize the kids were playing in our yard and the delivery man wanted to know if he was at the correct address. But dude…
You got out of a van and [...]

Sharp Objects, just released in paperback, is the story of a Chicago reporter sent back to her hometown in Mississippi to cover the disappearances of two little girls. Because her editor is too cheap to spring for hotels, our heroine must stay with her fascinatingly flawed family.
Stephen King says he was unable [...]

There aren’t a lot of reasons to order mail order gourmet coffee other than to get something you can’t get anywhere else. I became acquainted with Boca Java a couple of years ago and have always been impressed by the quality of their roast (never bitter or over-roasted) and by their variety of flavors. [...]

I tend to gravitate toward award winning books (well, okay, let’s be honest, I will read anything I can get my hands on: cereal boxes, shampoo bottles).
So when I saw that Rules, by Cynthia Lord, earned the Newberry Award, I happily added it to my Amazon cart to reach $25 so I could have free [...]