Self-help roundup: ‘Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It,’ more
Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It with an introduction by Elizabeth Gilbert, Riverhead, 240 pages, $16 It's been 10 years since author Elizabeth Gilbert struck out on a journey...
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Three books to kick off those 2016 resolutions
Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes, Simon & Schuster, 311 pages, $24.99 After the holidays, when it's time to say "no" to dessert, enticing sales racks or whatever else tempts...
3 books to help guide you through treatment and recovery
It may be hard to believe with the proliferation of pink ribbons during October's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but breast cancer used to be a taboo topic. You can see...
Best foot forward
You're selling your house. That means beige walls. Cookies baking. Fluffy white towels in the bath. Home staging -- yeah, we get it, right? Wrong. Realtors say even in today's...
Change of hats
A good friend tells you about the spinach between your teeth, when it's time to end a bad relationship and diplomatically suggests removing the nude painting of your wife from...
SPACE-SAVING SOLUTIONS
The holidays are around the corner. You know what that means. Despite the lovely decorations above the fireplace and the well-vacuumed living room, everyone will be ... in the kitchen....
Dressing for someone else’s wedding
June means it's wedding season. After the engaged couple sets the date, invited guests will need to pop the next big question: What should I wear? "There's still concern about...
HOW TO: RUN A TRAIN
All abooooard, would-be train engineers. Whether you take the "L" to work downtown every day or you're enthralled with the romance of the Orient Express, railroads and trains have always...
ON TOP OF THE WORLD
As ice-breakers go, living in North Pole, Alaska, has got to be tops. "It's fun. People ask about Santa Claus, if we live in an igloo, what we feed the...
Stuck for a costume?
It keeps toilets together, glues bumpers to cars and even has a history in beauty contests as low-budget Wonderbras. Just when you thought you've heard every conceivable use for duct...