I left for work the other morning, lost in some all-consuming daydream, and I didn’t get five steps before noticing that something was wrong. Very wrong.  I felt completely naked – and eerily light.  And then I knew what I was missing. That essential extension of every woman’s arm, the extremity we can go nowhere without – my handbag.
While I walked back inside to grab my bag, I had to marvel at the extraordinary lightness that came with going purse-free. I got to thinking – is this how men feel …

A few years ago it was the summer of weddings. Friend after friend of mine got engaged and then invitation after invitation for their nuptial celebrations. It was like the plague. An epidemic of matrimony surrounded me. And coming up with meaningful, personal, and creative gifts taxed me. But somehow I made it through and was glad to be done with it.
Now, an epidemic of another sort descends. Babies. They’re everywhere in my life. Cute, adorable, slobbering bundles of joy. And so, my gift-giving predicament has begun anew. I want …

As a daddy’s little girl, there were always three movies that I could watch over and over again with the papa bear: Grease, Rocky and The Karate Kid. Completely neglecting the fact that those three movies have nothing in common and my dad still loves all three, let’s focus on the bigger picture. How in the world does the kid do it? Each time I watch The Karate Kid, I can’t help wondering. I mean, I can watch the movie over and over again, watching his training in slow motion …

Back in the day, jeans used to come in one color: blue.
Of course, that was when they also came in just one style (trousers), were worn by one demographic (miners), and cost one measly dollar per pair.
But just as the garment has infiltrated the globe in the intervening century to fit any style and budget, so too have the colors expanded to span the entire spectrum.
In addition to every imaginable shade of blue, jeans now come in red, magenta, canary yellow, white, lime green, violet, and — well, you get …

We live in a city where access to healthy food is in almost every grocery store. We as consumers have dozens of choices when it comes to buying locally grown and organic foods in Pittsburgh. Here’s a few of the great selections of stores in the Pittsburgh region that are locally owned and run and all have the same goal in mind: serving the public with the highest quality of organic and sustainable merchandise.
At Today’s Market, a full service health food store located in Oakmont, the privately owned and operated …