Revenge of the Goldfish by Sandy Skoglund Goldfish brain. That’s what my friend Anna calls it. Cute but vacant: you can tell a goldfish anything – and expect it to be gone within the second. While it’s great that your goldfish will never tell anyone that you clean your earwax with your car key, it’s …
www.marriedtothesea.com Gym Buddy Allison and I share many similarities: young children, a deep love of garage sales and thrift stores, and the same dark hair/light skin that always makes people ask us if we are sisters. Or just confuse one of us for the other. (Hint: she’s the taller one with whiter teeth and shiny …
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Refreshing! But I’m pretty sure that’s still a foul. Group sports have never been my thing. And when I say “not my thing” I mean I was the girl who faked her period for three years before actually getting it, just so I wouldn’t have to play soccer with the other kids. It’s not that …
Best reason ever for boosting your metabolism: To annoy your siblings! That’s how it works at my house! Reader JJ recently e-mailed me a very interesting question and one that’s huge in the fitness world right now: “I have recently decided to step away from all I know and love – – 5-6 small meals …
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Air out your shoes! Get your bike out of the garage! Locate that tri suit that you got on a great sale and then felt too pretentious in it to wear it in a real race and so now you have guilt every time you look at it! ‘Tis the beginning of race season! While …
Not pictured: Me almost beaning myself with that dumbbell while I wobbled for 20 seconds trying to get my balance. 13 Simple Ways to Amp Up Your Push-Up. If you’ve been exercising for any length of time you are probably a little sick of regular push-ups. Here are a few ways to add some flavor …
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“Honey? Have I been acting crazy?” You know it’s not a good day when this is how your wife greets you as you walk in the door, fresh off a long day at the office. (When did my life become a cliche? Don’t answer that.) Although I daresay it beats out “Both toilets are clogged …
Equinox gym is known for having provocative advertising. Remember these ads – a photo spread, really, shot 70’s porn style by noted perv Terry Richardson – that drew so much fire for using catwalk models in sexually submissive poses to sell fitness memberships? (Of course the outcry wasn’t about how the women were being dehumanized …
Brilliant! Do you think my husband will get me a wife for my birthday?? (Mormons are allowed to make polygamy jokes now, right?) A lick of sauce here. A taste of dough there. A few jelly beans popped in as a palate cleanser. Cooking dinner for me is like one long buffet of yumminess. Part …
Bare-faced to full-fledged drag queen – when it comes to makeup in the gym, I have seen it all. But even I didn’t see this one coming: courtesy of a product pitch I received a few days ago I learned that there is now a full line of cosmetics specifically for working out. Rae Cosmetics* …
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