Let’s face it. The partridge in a pear tree is so 1780. These days, it seems all we get from our true love is five extra pounds, four nights of midnight refrigerator raids, three additional inches, two love handles and a New Year’s resolution we annually – and regrettably – repeat.
It’s what we do on [...]
Entries from December 2009
The 12 Days After Christmas … and Beyond
December 31st, 2009 No Comments
Tags: By Dr. Deirdre Habermehl · health
Iceland Is Getting Bigger – Holidays To Iceland, A Geological Wonder
December 30th, 2009 No Comments
A growing number of visitors are taking Iceland holidays to see the country’s impressive collection of natural wonders – the kind you once heard about in a Geography classroom. The package holidays Iceland offers include walking on volcanoes and glaciers, swimming in hot pools, and seeing the place where the world gets wider.
The Mid-Atlantic Ridge
Holidays [...]
Infidelity Excuse: I Fell Out of Love… And Just Love Being In Love
December 28th, 2009 No Comments
I find this dilemma rather common for younger couples, probably mid or late 30s and younger.
Usually one reports, “falling out of love” and is truly disturbed by this shift. He/she (and this is not merely a female problem!) wants to “recapture” those feelings.
This person has found a “significant other” who has stirred those dormant feelings [...]
Tags: falling out of love · infidelity
Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future: How Christmas Has Changed Over the Years
December 24th, 2009 No Comments
Contrary to what you might think when listening to older relatives recount stories of past Christmases – you know the ones, where they tell you about the good old days and explain that things are not quite like what they used to be – the festive season has indeed changed. Things are not the way [...]
Tags: christmas · traditions
Your Wardrobe Wish List: Six Style Solutions for a New Image This New Year
December 22nd, 2009 No Comments
As another new year dawns, it’s time to break out the resolutions. And if you feel like your image is anything less than sparkling, then New York-based stylist Marla Tomazin says it’s time for a style intervention. You may be surprised when it’s your confidence, and not just your closet, that gets the makeover in [...]
Tags: dressing better · Marla Tomazin · New Image
Ringing in a Debt-Free 2010: Eight Ways to Get Out of Debt and Start Saving for the New Year
December 17th, 2009 1 Comment
Best-selling author and former financial counselor Eric Tyson gives advice on how to break the cycle and build a better financial future.
Before we know it, we will be ringing in 2010. As the confetti falls and you take a few sips of the bubbly, what will you be looking forward to in the New Year? [...]
Tags: 2010 · debt · debt-free · Eric Tyson
Cancer For Christmas: Five Ways To Make Christmas Enjoyable For Loved Ones Enduring Chemotherapy
December 16th, 2009 No Comments
Recently I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Even though I have known cancer survivors and there is tons of literature on surviving cancer, I have discovered there are still a few surprises. My friends and family have been a wonderful support. Here are five ways that I have discovered, along with them, to be able [...]
Tags: cancer · cancer survival · christmas
Invictus – How One Man Helped to Unite a Nation
December 14th, 2009 No Comments
Directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon, Invictus is a movie about newly elected South Africa President Nelson Mandela uniting the blacks and whites of South Africa. Based upon historical events, the film shows South Africans’ struggle to accept their fellow citizen’s obvious difference. Morgan Freeman plays President Mandela, the [...]
Tags: Clint Eastwood · Invictus · Matt Damon · Morgan Freeman · Rugby · South Africa · World Cup
Top 20 Style and Beauty Tips to Keep Women Looking Fabulous Over 50
December 12th, 2009 1 Comment
Geri Brin, Founder of www.faboverfifty.com talked to hundreds of accomplished women Over 50 to find out their secret must-haves. Geri Brin, Founder of the soon-to-launch “fave-sharing” site, www.faboverfifty.com, is a publisher, writer and marketer who is giving a voice to what fabulous 50-plus women are thinking, feeling, wearing, longing for and buying.
“Women over 50 [...]
Tags: faboverfifty.com · gerin brin · women over 50
Vintage Glo Designs – A Jewelry Holiday Gift Choice
December 9th, 2009 3 Comments
Gloria Bass, the creator of Vintage Glo Designs, is the editor’s choice for Agenda Magazine’s December 2009 Holiday Issue and will be featured at the Em & Co’s West 3rd Street Annual Holiday Party. For local LA shoppers looking for that one-of-a-kind gift, Vintage Glo is the perfect choice. Vintage Glo is a [...]
Tags: Agenda Magazine · eco-friendly jewelry · EM and CO · gloria bass · jewelry · Vintage Glo