Archive for August, 2009

  • Beauty Tip of the Week – Lips

    Beauty Tip of the Week – Lips

    Lipstick.  Lipgloss.  Lipbalm.  What do all of these things have in common (except for the obvious prefix)?  They are all some of my greatest loves.  If you played a word association game with anyone who knows me and you said “Mindy”, they would most likely answer “lipstick.”  “Gorgeous” is also a strong possiblility.  I always have several [...]

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  • Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s…Smokin’ Hot Body!

    Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s…Smokin’ Hot Body!

    So there I was just finishing up my 3-mile fast walk, my iPod ear buds floating out of my ears from all the sweat pouring down my face, limping from the inevitable blister forming on my right heel when she comes running towards me looking fresh off of a Shape magazine cover shoot.  You know, [...]

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  • How Much Freedom Should We Give our Kids?

    How Much Freedom Should We Give our Kids?

    I remember it was a warm and sunny summer day with just enough clouds to make it as pretty as a postcard.  I was perched on the back of a neighbor kid’s motorcycle whipping around his property without a care in the world.  The wind was rushing through my hair adding a cool reprieve to [...]

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  • Choose Your Pets Wisely

    Choose Your Pets Wisely

    Okay, I recognize that this is a very random thought put into a bunch of words but I feel it is something that needs to be said.  My cat’s a real jerk.  A supreme jerk.  The kind of jerk that causes a little shock and dismay as to how an animal can exhibit such indifference [...]

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  • Happy Anniversary to me….(and Jer)

    Happy Anniversary to me….(and Jer)

    In honor of my ninth wedding anniversary I thought I would retell a very romantic story about how Jeremy and I came to be…  It all started one beautiful Spring morning, blossoms were just starting to grace the cherry trees and…crap.  I can’t keep this up!  Jer’s and my story is really anything but romantic [...]

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