Ever seen a product and thought why didn’t I think of that? That product for me was the Reynolds Slow Cooker Liners.
The geniuses behind this invention are the same folks who made the release aluminum non-stick foil, but took it one step further by creating this liner you place in your crock pot and when [...]

My three year old got this doll for her recent birthday, and it is far and away my favorite present she received, and possibly hers, too.
Dress Up Adventure Dora is a large doll, about 15” tall. She comes in denim shorts and a cute pink top, with a yellow flower watch and her ever [...]

I am an MP3 Cave Woman.
Seriously, I’m not a technophobe at all. In my youth, people I worked with even went so far as to call me a “circuit head”, because I liked techie stuff in the work place and was always attached to various gadgets and whizbangs.
But then broadband came along and [...]

by Izzy

The Dove SkinVitalizer is a handheld device that washes and/or exfoliates your face. I wouldn’t call it a brush because there are no bristles but it does use two-sided cleansing pads that attach securely to the device with a Velcro-like material on the handle.
One side of the pad is smooth for washing and the [...]

Milkscreen is a new product that helps a nursing mother figure out exactly when her breastmilk is alcohol-free after having a drink.
I was able to chat recently on the phone with Milkscreen co-founder Julie Jumonville, an engineer by trade and a 35-year-old Texas mother of two.
“We all have our Mommy guilt,” Jumonville said, explaining the [...]

(NOTE: This review has been amended here)
There were two surprises after my husband and I eloped last summer. The first was when I found his voter registration card, and we don’t need to talk about that here. That is what my 50 minute hour is for.
The second was when I discovered the horrific sleep [...]

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. [...]