All things home.
Fans headed to the college football classic Red River Shootout (better known in theses parts as Texas/OU Weekend) take note. Texas and Oklahoma both have higher rates of heart disease compared to national statistics. Some might equate this to the coronary-inducing performances of both teams at times. Or it might be the unequivocal love of…
I’m home for a couple of days before I hit the road again for my infamously busy fall travel schedule. Those precious days at home mean a combination of time in my office and a bit of work from my comfortable perch on my sectional at the homestead. But my perch wasn’t always so comfy… in…
Week after week of life on the road can wreck havoc on my body. Eating can become one of those exercises where I am left with few choices – eat what’s on the plane or available at the airport or whatever my client has put out. Even when I get time to choose, sometimes after…
Heads up for fans of bohemian style accents. Gilt.com just opened a sale one-of-a-kind throws and pillows from vintage kantha pieces. Kantha is a type of embroidered fabric made from saris stitched together by hand and found in parts of SE Asia. These pieces are from Taj Hotel Design Concepts. The hand stitched 50″x60″ throws…
Navigating an airport for the first time can be a nerve wracking experience for any first-time flyer. But mix airports and autism together and you can have a highly stressful situation for that traveling family. Sensory overstimulation is often a fear for parents of autistic children. How their child might deal with situations outside their…
I subscribe to a monthly shipment from Stitch Fix, an online personal shopping service. Women who try the service create their own custom profile so that they can try new wardrobe additions to fit their lifestyle, figure, and needs. September was box #5 for me. Through my first four boxes, I kept a total of…
Living in Texas, you’d think I’d be used to bad parking jobs. My daily grind typically involves an obnoxious parker just about everywhere I go: my morning Starbucks run where at least two of the regulars have a fetish for using the handicapped spaces when they are in a hurry even though they lack a…
It’s been a lazy yet productive Sunday around the homestead after getting back from my road trip last night. I’ve been getting autumn ready for another couple crazy months of travel about to kick off soon. I got up early and did a couple Uber drives (three rides, over $60, while I drank my morning…
Me, champagne, Saturday night shopping? What could possibly be wrong with that picture? Nothing… except my ability to find plenty of things I want (but don’t really need). Like this t-shirt from Anthropologie…. $48 for a t-shirt is a bit steep in my book (even if it does earn me 4 miles per dollar with…
It’s time for another Birchbox OR Ipsy square off. Both services offer a monthly $10 membership where subscribers receive a selection of beauty product samples that is customized (somewhat) based on personal preferences. Birchbox comes in its namesake box while Ipsy’s Glam Bag is a limited edition cosmetic bag each month. Each month, I review “the box” versus…
Nothing can get a group of frequent business travelers more excited than talking about luggage. And nothing gets this jetsetting diva more excited than Tumi luggage. Unless it’s Tumi luggage ON SALE. Let me catch my breath from the jumping up and down I’ve been doing for the past few minutes. Gilt.com has my favorite luggage…
We just hit autumn and its already only 93 days until Christmas (and 84 to Hanukkah). That means I’m actively on the hunt for great gifts for this year. While some of you are huddled in sleeping bags outside your local big box store or sleeping off a turkey coma in front of a Thanksgiving Day football…