Relationships
What Matters
By: mamabear
Long ago I realized that balancing my needs and wants -- especially as it applies to writing -- and my family's needs and wants is never quite as easy as hanging out ...
The Pooplexing Problem
Dear City Waste Management: My cats came with these. (See picture). Your new ban on plastic bags in both the recycling and the garbage cart is going to make my life rathe...
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The Joker and the Clown
My first 'love' relationship experience sucked. I was 16 turning 17, a sophmore in high school and a very shy teen. It took me a long time to move on from him but he didn...
Food & wine
Scratch Cooking November 19th
By: goinggreenTonight I made sweet corn tamales. I have never even attempted to make tamales before, but I was in the mood to try something new. I made a variation on an Emerile La...
TAPAS & Music & Crafts
TAPAS is here...Sebastopol is serving tapas at ONE! Join the crowd in Sebastopol on November 21th (this Saturday) from one to five at the Community Church (just north of ...
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Why Asian Vegetarian Meals Are Popular All around the World?
Meals that take their origin from Eastern countries have been popular all around the world. We all know that they are tasty, spicy, unusual, nutritious, and healthy, but ...
Diversions
Question of the Day - Green...
By: kcarpenter
Every Thanksgiving, my Mom and I have a conversation that goes a little something like this: Kerri's Mom : Why aren't you eating any green beans? Kerri : ( rolls eyes...
Daily Feng Shui Tip 11/19/09
The Great American Smokeout’ encourages smokers to quit the habit for just one day in order so they can see that they can actually do it and then quit for a lifetime. A...
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Is it true?
We're obsessed with vampire sex? Gross. I want to think Yvonne K. Fulbright is the one obsessed after reading her article . Eww. I thought I was reading her sex diary. Bu...
World
Le Shopping List
By: globalgalSometimes I wonder if food here in France is really as expensive as it seems to be. It could be that I just haven’t shopped enough at stores in the U.S. Maybe I’m bec...
Sunday best
Many types of patients are seen at Clinic. Some are here just for medication refills every two months to help keep their diabetes and hypertension in control. Others wait...
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Steve Irwin Day November 15
Khaki is more than a colour. It’s an attitude. It’s a stand to do something positive in our world and a passion to make a difference. And when you make a difference â...
Green
Your pet's carbon footprint is bigger than my S...
By: kiminkAccording to authors, Robert and Brenda Vale, your pet dog leaves a footprint bigger than an SUV. Their book, Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Livin...
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"Forest"
This is the one I've entered into a contest already (I'm still slightly ambivalent about it, but it's my 5th or 6th draft and I guess it's ok..): Oak pieces rickety-rock ...
Family
Full Credit - Long Overdue
By: kellyarmstrong
About a hundred years ago, in July 2009 to be exact, I wrote a series of blogs on How Not To Take a Summer Vacation , in which I detailed the fiasco that our Cruise A...
Old News
I rarely look back. The Man Who Puts Up With Me, however, is willing to be retrospective often. When I got up one morning recently, I found him rereading my PNN posts fro...
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What is wrong with this woman?
So my hubby just got a demanding letter from his ex wife. They have a daughter together, she's about 8 now that he hasn't seen since she was 1 and is now DEMANDING that h...
Living
West Coast vs. East Coast
By: larissalytwyn
I’m back, not only on the West Coast but also in my own skin. This year has been a tremendous journey, from the moment I got the biggest wake-up call of my life to th...
15% Hungry
"My mom's been spending a lot of time with her boyfriend in Mexico. She hasn't been paying the bills, and last week they turned off the electricity. I can't tell you the ...
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How We Got Here From There
The call came to my desk on Friday afternoon about 2:30 pm the week before Christmas. It was one of my sister-in-law’s saying that the State Highway Patrol was with her...
Style
Girls just wanna have cupcake -- cars?
By: chitowngirlYa gotta love Neiman Marcus: No matter what the state of the economy, they still provide plenty of gift imagination with their holiday catalog. This year they take a ...
Interview from Model Life book party!
Colleen">http://vimeo.com/7599102">Colleen Brennan interview Isobella Jade at Model Life Book Party from Colleen">http://vimeo.com/user2536971">Colleen Brenna...
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CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Gala
The who's who of Seventh Avenue and Hollywood collided in a stiletto filled night for the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Gala. Among the guests: Nicole Kidman, Jason Wu, Alexa C...
Well-being
The Child
By: larissalytwynKids once made me nervous. The last time I held a baby, I was cradling my now 17-year-old nephew. Then, last week in Seattle, I spent a day sightseeing with my friend...
Angst Love Songs pt4
November 1984 I donned a yellow chiffon dress pinned up my hair straightened out the blanket on the couch set my two giant speakers one at one end one at the other end of...
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Why Target Brand Pregnancy Tests are the Devil
I almost found out I was pregnant on Thursday . I had been feeling really tired for a few days, and add to that a few other unmentionable symptoms and rather than sweat i...
A&E
Absence makes the heart grow fonder ...
By: sgd25Hi everyone! I've been keeping up with blog reading and comment leaving - but it's been ages since I've written anything on my own page. At the start of the month, I ...
Nano/ Eve second sneak peek
Bestselling Author Eve Summerton Curry appearing to day. B ook signing & reading at 2 pm . The words were splashed across an enormous poster hanging in the window of ...
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NaNo Update
I haven't blogged in FORVER! Chalk it up to NaNo taking over my soul-- between working full-time and trying to hang out with my husband and squeezing in novel-writing in ...
Etc.
Beauty is skin deep but a g...
By: askthebloggess
Dear Bloggess: My ex-boyfriend dumped me and is marrying this woman who is so ugly she makes my bones hurt. She’s not nearly as pretty as me. WHY IS HE DOING THIS? Se...
So Lonely!
Elise awaits Kim's return from vacation. In the mean time....so lonely. So very very lonely..... ...
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Thanksgiving Day
Do you want to know more about Thanksgiving? Learn about this holiday firsthand from the 5th graders of an American school in Massachusetts. ...
Politics
Please Note
By: anewphilosophy
I just want to clarify that the advertisement at the top of this page (the one that claims that the shadowy gay agenda wants to "teach homosexual marriage" in Maine's...
Interracial Family Discovers Burning Cross in Yard
November 18th, 2009 A white rural Pittsburgh area family with a black adopted son are victims of a hate crime as someone set ablaze a large wooden cross in their backyard...
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2020 Vision
2020 Vision Heaven Come 11? Can we create heaven in Prince Edward Island in the 11 years between now and the year 2020? Probably not, but we firmly believe that we can ma...
Gossip
Jessica Simpson trash talks Melrose Place
By: tragicomicalJessica Simpson is taking up for her sister after she was canned from "Melrose Place". Like a good sister, Jessica plainly called the show "crap" after they gave Ashl...
OMG I've been dumped!!!
Diva Note: She took everything all her stuff and left me "sniffle" Read more: http://erotiques.pnn.com/articles/show/54115-dear-diva#ixzz0XLmar7Il ...
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Celebrity Crush Confession:
I have a confession to make: I'm in love with.....(drum roll please) Ryan Reynolds. Did any of you see him on Saturday Night Live last Saturday? Oh, I had to watch it. I ...


















