How to Try the No-Shampoo Method: All Your Questions Answered!

My hair is naturally wrinkly, leaning more towards curly for most of my life. And then I got pregnant. Like many parts of my body, my hair freaked out but I was too focused on the aliens that had possessed my poor boobs to care too much about what was going on with my hair. …

The Case For Athletic Optimism [Or: How Julia Mancuso Used Her Underdog Status to Win Her 4th Olympic Medal]

For the record, the next time I win anything I’m totally crowning myself with a tiara!! How fun is that on the medal podium? Way better than that stupid bite-the-medal pose everyone else does… Four Olympic medals make some pretty sweet bling but, for skier Julia Mancuso, her latest addition also makes her the most decorated …

Is Bone Broth Really a Magic Health Elixir? [9 Reasons Why You Should Try Drinking Bone Broth]

Bouncing along the dirt road, listening to the box full of frozen bones clanking around like I’d car-jacked Ezekiel, all I could hope was that I wouldn’t get pulled over because I didn’t want to have to explain to a cop why there was a bloody cardboard box filled with a chopped up cow skeleton …

Selfie Underboob and Yoga Underbutt: The Newest (and Most Impractical) Fitness Fashion Trends

Crop tops are making a comeback, ladies! Especially when it comes to fitness. The off-the-shoulder 80’s variety has been happening for a few years and “tasteful midriff” has been all over red carpets this past year but now the shrunken 90’s belly-baring style we all remember from our Gwen Stefani posters is back big time …

Hilarious Gym Stereotypes – Now in Handy Video Format!

I know it’s the weekend. Still. Stop whatever you’re doing and watch this now: Post by Robert Piotrowicz Fitness. (sorry, you may have to click through to see the vid. It’s not showing up in readers for some reason. But I promise it’s worth it!) These guys put together one of the funniest and yet …

How Do You Feel All the Feelings? Learning To Be Okay With Not Being Okay.

 Hello Kitty always helps answer the big questions – kind of amazing for a cat that doesn’t even have a mouth.  “Mom, are robbers tiny or big?” The other day I found 4-year-old Jelly Bean rolling around on her floor, looking at her fingers and and pondering that existential question. “Where does jail live?” she …

What the Controversy Over the “Skeletal” Winner of The Biggest Loser Says About Her – And Even More About Us

Early this morning whilst my children were whizzing all over the floor in the area of the toilet and I was still snuggled under the covers checking the weather (-7! It’s like Minnesota misses me and followed me all the way here! Aw!), the internets were all atwitter with shock surrounding The Biggest Loser’s latest …

Is Sugar Really the New Nicotine? Consortium of Researchers and Doctors Say Yes and That We Need to Fight It Just Like We Do Cigs [When research, public health and weird advertising collide]

 Did you know lots of lip balm has sugar in it? Katy Perry, you’re welcome.  “Sugar is the new nicotine!” proclaims Action on Sugar, a consortium of scientists and doctors whose mission is to reduce sugar consumption and diabetes worldwide, in a new public awareness campaign. According to their press release, “This group will initially …

How Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death is Helping Me Understand My Own Struggles With Addiction [Along with the unlikely help of Russell Brand]

Sorry, had to do it. But he really was amazing, right?? “Who’s Philip Seymour Hoffman?” I asked loudly, interrupting the noise of that football game yesterday that I was so interested in I spent the whole time either re-enacting Frozen using Barbies with Jelly Bean or surfing the web on my phone. “Game maker from Hunger …

The New Age of Old Models: Is Aging Finally Losing it’s “Ugly” Stigma in Fashion [Or is grey hair just the new fedora?]

Sleek hair, impeccable styling, perfect makeup – even though everything about her screamed model I still couldn’t believe my eyes. And yet there she was staring right back at me from a full-page glossy photo fashion spread for The Row, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s high-end fashion line. The lovely 65-year-old Linda Rodin even had the …