Travel & Leisure magazine just declared Philadelphia the Least Attractive City in America, with Miami winning the Most Attractive title. I wonder how the editors at Travel & Leisure measured... Join this chit chat >>

I spent a large part of my life over weight ... Obese! I am at the age where I’m in my mid 20’s and I’ve lost weight and I realize that there is no place to turn. No one can relate... Read more >>

There’s only so much a girl can take. Season after season I am subjected to the whims of trend tyrants—between the skinny-ninny leg pants that make my legs look like sausages, the jodphur... Read more >>

My daily ensembles are fierce a lá Christian Siriano of Project Runway, so people are usually quite shaken when they learn that my favorite place to shop is Target, or rather Targé (as... Read more >>

We’ve all had those moments. The mornings where you come out of your blacked out drunken state to have something hovering over you like a creature from the blue lagoon. A creature that speaks... Read more >>

  Even redneck boys like pretty girls and I remember one evenin’, back in the late sixties, when my old pal Bill arranged blind dates for my brother and me. We should have known better. I... Read more >>

Hubs has always had a hankering for a pair of red pants. His reasoning is sound: we have a Christmas party every year and he thinks the red pants would be festive. I can’t argue with that. The... Read more >>

Ah, the Ugly American. You know the one. The American you see on the streets of Europe who lets us down—wearing running shoes for comfort, they are hell-bent on checking off as many sights as... Read more >>

Growing up an ugly (fat) duckling made me. I suffer severely from something I call the “Ugly Duckling Syndrome.” I didn’t have many friends but the ones I did have were... Read more >>

I sit here writing, doing my best to keep my fingers quiet as he sleeps heavily beside me. I check my watch, counting the hours when I will need to wake him up to take another pill. My boyfriend had... Read more >>