Love hurts. But hate hurts worse. And disinterest may be the most painful of all. The other day I had a conversation that went something like this: Friend*: Oh hey, I’ll see you tomorrow night at X’s! Me: For what? Friend (eyes widening in panic): Ah um, her dinner party? (As I remain silent she …
Paleo or vegan, conventional nutritionist or holistic healer, USDA lab rat or NY Times columnist – when it comes to how to be healthiest, there is a lot of disagreement but the one thing every expert* will tell you to do? Eat more vegetables! (Oh and drink water. Fine, that’s two things.) And yet when researchers …
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The family that mullet-s together, stays (in therapy) together! Mullets were cool, then they were lame, then they were super duper old-creeper-man lame but then they came back around to being parodied, worn ironically and then – heaven help us all – done intentionally. The mullet is back, y’all. And while I don’t think I …
The Gym Buddies and I are the lead story on Shape.com right now with our 20 Hip Hop Inspired Moves slideshow! Unfortunately I don’t have any bloopers from this shoot but it could be said that all the pics were hilarious, as you can see from this one of Allison that we really used in the …
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note: I am not posting the lingerie ads nor the more risque of the Vogue photos (of which the above picture is a part) because I find them deeply disturbing. I’ve linked to articles with some of the pics if you are curious. Children don’t have a voice. From the moment they are born, we …
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Our costumes for the Lady Gaga Flashmob taping. We both made our own hats. (To see the video, keep reading!) When people say they don’t like to workout, I usually answer, “That’s because you’ve never worked out with us!” Sometimes we have so much fun I forget I’m even working out until I feel the …
Another day, another inane celebrity quote – in a world Charlie Sheen isn’t even considered shocking anymore, why bother with the cobwebs that decorate pretty, vacant minds? Well for one thing, they’re not vacant. I think for the most part celebrities are not stupid. Sure they do dumb things sometimes (don’t we all?) but save …
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Disappointed. That’s the only way to describe how I felt after my first month of volunteering every day at the battered women’s shelter. It started out all fun and spy games, with the coordinator telling me to meet her on the corner of a crowded intersection and to come alone. Once I got to the …
Half-price massages! Discounted movie tickets! Eighty-percent off sky diving! Groupon, LivingSocial and other “deal of the day” sites have taken the Internet (and our inboxes) by storm over the past year, with millions of people getting great deals on everything from services to entertainment to locally grown alpaca fur. While sky diving on the cheap …
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I’m literally jumping for joy! Robins egg blue capris with white piping and a striped tank top that would make Rainbow Brite jealous: that was the first athletic outfit I ever purchased for myself. (As purtyinorange said to me on Twitter, “Whenever I think of you, I think ‘subtle’… lol”) It was after my 2nd …
