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Dad-Friendly Cocktails & Last-Minute Gift Ideas for Father's Day

Just a few days left before Father's Day, and kids of all ages are scrambling to find The Perfect Gift for Dear Ol' Dad. We're coming to the rescue with a few last-minute ideas of our own paired with cocktail suggestions for Dad and his #1 girl (he's not much of an appletini guy, in case you forgot).
  
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Daily Dose of Adorable: Real Life 'The Notebook' Couple

We've all seen, loved and bawled our eyes out over The Notebook. And in case you haven't or need a refresher, or perhaps you just need a bit of Gosling injected into your day, here's a quick clip: 


 
Sparks notes version: After a long love affair, the couple grows old together and eventually Rachel McAdam's character develops dementia. Ryan Gosling's character is...

Online Dating Challenge Part 3: I Went On a Group Date (and I liked it)

You may remember that not too long ago I embarked on a journey into the online dating world. I had mixed results, to say the least. However, I picked myself up, dusted off the creepers and decided to keep at it. Hey, free dinners, right? (Kidding... but not totally.) Weaving my way through online dating services, I came upon Grouper Social Club. 

Grouper? Social Club?...

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I am so glad my dating days are behind me.  Especially first dates!  Sure, they can be fun and exciting with all of the newness and anticipation, but they are also extremely nerve-wracking. Aside from the whole chemistry/compatibility question, there is the scariness of The First Kiss. 

Hollywood tells us that this moment is perfectly romantic (or sweetly awkward in the...

The 5 Guys Every Girl Will Date

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I recently dipped my toe into the uncertain waters of online dating, so far with mixed results. After exhaustive debriefing and overanalysis with close friends, I've come to realize just how common my experiences have been.

In fact, I'm going to make some sweeping generalizations about the 5 frogs you'll date before you finally kiss your prince. ...

Online Dating Challenge Part 2: The Honeymoon is Over

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You may remember not too long ago when I wrote about my experience trying an online dating site for the first time. I spoke about being open minded and optimistic about the future. And was pretty sure that there were guys out there who were fabulous people. 

I guess you could call that my 'honeymoon phase'. Because even though I am trying really...

Online Dating Challenge Part 1: What I Learned

I’ve put the following items on my face in an attempt to find the perfect DIY skincare: hemorrhoid cream, milk of magnesia, goat’s milk and countless produce and dairy concoctions made into masks. So, when we started talking about some ideas we've thought about for an online dating article, actually trying out a service didn’t seem so scary in comparison. Especially when...

Top 10 Ideas for Long Weekend Fun

I love long weekends. Who doesn't, right? I super, duper love them though because all of my out of town friends come back home for the weekend and I get to spend some quality BFF time with them. We like to have little 'staycations' on long weekends. We spend the weekend doing tons of fun stuff that we might not normally have the time to do during the weeks and of course, we get to do...

My Grandmother the Bad*ss and 6 Other Women I Admire

Recently, and for the first time in my life, I heard myself referred as a “strong person.” I guess they were referring to the fact that I haven’t had a total nervous breakdown, but those people haven’t seen me run into a spider in our basement or watch our dog nearly kill a rabbit in the backyard. But here’s the thing about strength: you don’t know you have it until you have no choice...

Hating Your Body is a Complete Waste of Time (Just Ask My Tumors)

Aside from my occasional bouts of hippie fever, I’m entirely conventional in many ways, the least fortunate being that I’ve spent a good portion of my life turning my dissatisfaction over my body into a science. At any given point in my life, I could answer “what would you change about your body?” with a detailed wish list of ways my body had disappointed me.

Most of the noise of that...