By Audrey van Petegem, Senior Editor
With myself turning 50 this year, many of my friends are also doing the same. Surprise parties are being secretly organized for some and for others, they are taking the bull by the horns, so to speak, and organizing their own getaways with their gal pals. Always in search for the perfect gift I wonder if the My Baby Boomer Baby Book would be a great novelty gift to help bring light to the otherwise potentially somber prospect of aging. Although I personally am embracing turning 50 I am not excited about the physical side [...]

By Kristin Fast, Lifestyle Editor and In-House Wit-Cracker
The only way to really get into this post is to request that you follow this link and watch the below video on Fox Fur and Feather Carnivale Merkins, the latest ridiculous way to decorate your bikini zone, and then come back so we can chat…

Good, you’ve returned. Everyone okay? I can wait a moment if you need water or an Advil…
Now, I have mentioned before that I place an inordinate amount of faith in advertising and have fallen prey to far too many Miracle Infomercials… This weakness has been curbed a bit [...]

By Audrey van Petegem, Senior Editor
Now with this Social Media revolution there are truly no secrets anymore. Within seconds all your poor taste, poor judgment and poor you will be over the internet. With the help of Viddy, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and (God help me) LinkedIn, last nights indiscretions will be the talk at the water cooler, PTA meeting, yoga class, Starbucks and everywhere else you go.  There is now a way to help protect yourself from – well – yourself with the Holiday Party Sobriety Test app.
Spin the wheel and find out which three coordination or cognitive test [...]

By Kristin Fast, Lifestyle Editor and In-House Wit-Cracker
Sunday, June 19th is around the corner and for all of you who forgot (yes, I am looking at you) that means Father’s Day is fast approaching and unless you are one of the lucky ones with a dad who is a real zealot for some sort of hobby, you are wringing your hands in despair because buying dad a gift can be particularly difficult. Annoyingly, many fathers are of the, “Save your money” and “It’s a ‘Hallmark’ holiday” variety which moves them from the “difficult” to the “eye-gouging” category on your shopping list.
Lucky [...]

By Kristin Fast, Lifestyle Editor and In-House Wit-Cracker
Forget the time old idea of Mom and apple pie… today’s mother, as you surely know, is not only bringing home the bacon and frying it up in a pan, but also volunteering for the school carnival committee and getting to the gym 3 afternoons a week. She is a machine that can juggle separate schedules, knows your shoe size and together you share an irrational love for British Rom-coms. She is your mother and she is awesome.
And one small day a year to acknowledge her awesomeness is not a lot to [...]

By Kristin Fast, Lifestyle Editor and In-House Wit-Cracker
So you want to practice yoga?  You want Jennifer Aniston’s arms and Ashley Judd’s legs and inner peace and so you decide, like 15 million other Americans, to take up the practice of yoga.
Welcome.
I too, want all those things and at 41, the beginning twinges of sore knees and an achy back have finally compelled me to visit the options for a healthier lifestyle. I have always had a loose relationship with fitness and if I could have a mere nickel for every dollar spent on gym memberships, class sessions, and [...]

By Kristin Fast, Lifestyle Editor and In-House Wit-Cracker

Oh my stars.
When the Succulents came and asked me to write for them, I was all, “Yes! A post a week!” But what I probably really said, “Yes! A *swear-word post a week!” And then I wrote posts full of expletives and the sweet Succulents had to remind me that I wasn’t writing for wild submariners confined to sweaty below-deck locker rooms, but rather people who made not dropping the f-bomb in front of their children/boss/banker a goal.
Which is why there hasn’t been [...]

By Kristin Fast, Lifestyle Editor and In-House Wit-Cracker
With the rare exception, I do a load or two of laundry everyday… every. Single. Day. We are a family of 5, with two of those five being teenage boys… (teenage boys will wear three shirts in one day, but the same pair of pants for a week) which I am sure makes it clearer why I am engaged in a never ending battle for clean clothes dominance.

I then not only fold the laundry, but also separate it into categories. The shirts, pants, socks are all stacked together and each child comes home [...]