Lost Maples Nature Area, Vanderpool, Texas (OK, well, maybe not your jackets.) The 10-day forecast for Houston has lows around 70 and highs ...

Taylor Lautner was born in 1992 ... a year AFTER I GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL! How can that be?! When did this happen?! I'm old. No, I...

For a quick sweet treat, these look awesome! Yoplait Delights! And at only 100 calories each, you can't beat it (visit the website for ...

I've never been a chutney person. For some reason, it's always reminded me too much of fruit cake, and that's a major culinary n...

... if everyone had the manners of my three-year-old. Sure he sometimes forgets to flush the potty, and yeah, he loves to hear himself burp ...

Back-to-school manicure and pedicure at Bora Bora -- best in the city! I ran into one of my very favorite former students and so very much e...

The rest of my signs arrived ... DARLING! From the CountryWorkshop in Baltimore, Maryland. I may have to leave the Vampire sign out year-ro...

35 -- far too young for this genius to expire. And now it looks like nothing sinister (i.e. poisoning by Salieri) was involved ... just a na...

Kate Earl . Love her. Her dad is Welsh (like my own mum), so it must be in my blood. You can download one of her songs for free right now --...

For the Twilight fan in your life who has it all -- the Edward Cullen life-sized silhouette wall decal . Hilarious, in a disturbing 'I...

One of my favorite simple pleasures in life is my Etsy.com addiction. I'm not a big shopper (malls suck), and over the past several yea...

So I haven't made any Twilight comments in a while (despite the fact that Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson were caught smooching at a...

At the end of a hard day, with temps bordering on the triple-digit variety, there are very few items that hit the spot for me quite like a c...

After a quiet hurricane season so far, several tropical storms are churning out in the open waters of the Atlantic, just waiting to make the...

To all you “fishy” Americans out there, go FLAG yourself!

I'm always telling my husband to "have faith," but I seldom follow my own advice. I'm really good at dishing it out, but f...

Today was the official last day of my 2009 summer vacation. Usually by this point in the summer, I've put in about a week of my own time...

A hell of a lot of anger is permeating America right now. We're polarized between two separate and distinct ideologies like I've nev...

Yippee! The 2009 Yankee Candle Halloween catalog arrived in my mailbox today! I'm going to take credit for the timing ... right after m...

I must have had some pumpkin-filled dreams last night or something, because I woke up this morning with Halloween on the brain. Maybe it...