How to Avoid That Way-Too-Common Cold [Body Blog]
There are some steps you can take to help prevent those awful fall/winter illnesses. The common cold and the flu are slightly different beasts, but in general, the prevention tips are the same.
Friday Faves: Winter, a Love/Hate Relationship
It’s usually about mid-August, after a summer of humid hair messes and chaffing, I am begging Mother Nature to let winter come. I want to be able to not start dripping the second I step outdoors, I’m bored of all my summer clothes and overall just over the season in general.

Cold, Colder, Coldest: 4 Winter Looks You’re Going to Love
So winter arrived in a big way this week. I went from complaining that it was never going to get cold to injecting a hot chocolate drip in my arm. And while most years I use the cold as an excuse to dress like the pigeon lady from Home Alone 2: Kevin’s Parents are so Self Involved They Don’t Notice When He’s Not On Their Plane…Again, this year I decided to change it up and actually dress like a real person during the winter months.
Friday Faves: Snow Days Then and Now
Remember when you were a little kid, and you’d actually wake up on time for school… just so you could huddle next to the radio and listen for your school to be called on the list of snow days? With winter’s doom impending and temperatures dropping faster than an eight ball at Amy Winehouse’s flat, we can’t help but cross our fingers and pray… Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
6 Tips to Endure This Cold Ass Winter
It’s official. It’s effing cold out there people. As Jay Leno so proudly stated recently; “It was so cold in Minneapolis, Brett Favre was texting pictures of his chestnuts roasting over an open fire…” Basically, things are getting pretty desperate. And, the cold isn’t only ruining peoples social lives and baby soft skin in the midwest.
Fashion Porn: Winter Accessories Get it on
As of next week it’s officially winter. For those of you that have been piling on layers of clothing already, this will come as no surprise. You’ve already been wrapping the scarves around your neck, putting on a hat while praying you don’t get horrendous hat hair and crawling around every morning looking for that second mitten (while wondering aloud why they don’t make those mitten clips for anyone over the age of 6).
Intro to Cooking: Cranberry Applesauce
This Week’s Ingredient: Cranberries!
They’re sweet. They’re tart. They’re harvested from bogs. And they’re a deep, beautiful, fire-engine hue. If your only exposure to cranberries is in combination with their fermented partner, vodka, then you’re totally missing out (not to mention that the “cranberry juice” served in bars is basically just sugar water).

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