• Stressed? Homesick? Feelin’ Blue? How Not to Eat Your Feelings

    Stressed? Homesick? Feelin’ Blue? How Not to Eat Your Feelings

    Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Sure, we all do to some degree! Food is one of the necessities of life, but it’s also a source of comfort for those times when you are feeling sad, stressed, homesick, angry, or [insert emotion here]. This occasional indulgence usually isn’t a problem, but when you start responding to every emotion with food it becomes a problem in more than one way.

  • Intro to Cooking: Cranberry Applesauce

    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).

  • ‘Tis The Season to Help Others: Let’s Make a Difference!

    ‘Tis The Season to Help Others: Let’s Make a Difference!

    With the holiday season in full force, it’s time to start thinking beyond the presents you want to receive from your family and friends and the parties you will be attending and what you are going to wear. It’s time to think about others.

  • The Weekly Ten: Holiday Happiness

    The Weekly Ten: Holiday Happiness

    Thanksgiving. Sigh. After being more stuffed than the holiday turkey, it’s time to come to terms with the fact that the holiday season has begun. Whether you celebrate Hannukah, Christmas, Kwanzaa or none of the above, it’s a given that you will be inundated with all kinds of holiday-ness over the next 6 weeks.

  • Thanksgiving, Part Deux

    Thanksgiving, Part Deux

    As soon as you emerge from your Thanksgiving-induced food coma (What? Doesn’t it take everyone 36 hours?), it’s likely that there’s one major thing you’re going to want to do: eat again.

  • The Weekly Wrap Up: Tis the Season… Already

    The Weekly Wrap Up: Tis the Season… Already

    Thanksgiving has been over for less than 24 hours, which means that the world is already in full-fledged holiday season mode. The advent of The Season brings with it all kinds of things, some positive and some negative: major deals and awkward run-ins with high school friends, feelings of gratitude and feelings of Grinchiness, holiday nookie and so on.

  • College, I Thank Thee

    College, I Thank Thee

    This awesome occurrence—and the general mood of November—got me thinking about how many things about college I have to be thankful for. I don’t want to sound too clichéd or sappy, but the past three and a half years have definitely been the best of my life; I can’t believe it’s all going to be over in May. College, that is, not my life.

  • The Black Friday Go-To Outfit

    The Black Friday Go-To Outfit

    I am so excited for Thanksgiving break that I can barely contain myself. Instead of doing my homework, I’m watching Paula Dean stuff her turkey with a stick of butter on TV and listening to my mom describe her fancy new table settings to me over the phone.

  • I’m Not Thankful For Thanksgiving

    I’m Not Thankful For Thanksgiving

    Unlike the rest of the world, Thanksgiving is my least-favorite holiday. I know, I know—the food, the laziness, the time off from work, the family (well . . . maybe that’s not such a plus)—what’s not to love?

  • Welcome to the Biggest Bar Night of the Year

    Welcome to the Biggest Bar Night of the Year

    Thanksgiving is a-comin’, ladies! Time for some turkey, stuffing (my absolute favorite treat on earth) and reuniting with all your old home friends. Oh, and hopefully a major shopping spree with mom. Is there any other reason to come home?

  • Thanksgiving Break Dos and Don’ts

    Thanksgiving Break Dos and Don’ts

    Being back under your parents’ roof for Thanksgiving comes with a cornucopia of blessings, such as mom doing your laundry, shopping sprees and overeating until you actually consider braving the Black Friday crowds just to purchase a pair of jeans with an elastic waistband. However, being back under mom and dad’s watchful eye can be treacherous, as well.

  • Life After College: Holiday Anxieties

    Life After College: Holiday Anxieties

    Thanksgiving gets increasingly more stressful for me every single year. If I’m not having nightmares about the stuffing running out before it gets passed to me, then I’m biting my nails over the fact that I’ll have to explain my career to my family sixteen times.

  • Shop Black Friday in Your PJ’s

    Shop Black Friday in Your PJ’s

    Part of me gets butterflies just thinking about racks and racks of discounted clothing. I’ve been dreaming of Black Friday since I woke up over the toilet in a Tinker Bell costume on November 1st; the cheap designer handbags, the plasma TVs, the stops at Cinnabon and Auntie Anne’s to refuel, the high of leaving the mall with all of my Christmas gifts and some money left in my bank account.