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Five fitness tips for winter travel: Learn how to stick with your exercise goals
Traveling during the winter holidays or during the frosty first few months of the new year can take a pretty hefty bite out of a regular exercise routine. Add in all the heavy holiday meals and eating out and even the thinnest waistline will pay the price. But even though keeping up with a standard [...]
I Can Has Prezents?!: What to Get Your Furry Friends This Season
With waggly tails and rumbly purrs, they relentlessly show their love every day. What better time of year than the holidays to delight a four-legged family member with a special gift? “Pets get so much joy out of toys,” says Lorrie Shaw, a Chelsea, Mich., pet owner and pet blogger for annarbor.com. “They get to [...]
Carry on the tradition and plan the perfect ornament exchange party to get your home in the holiday mood
An ornament exchange is the perfect way to spur on the giving spirit for the holiday season. A decorated ornament can be an inexpensive way to show appreciation around the holidays. Here’s how to make it happen. First, don’t throw an ornament exchange party. Ornament exchanges are best when held as an event within an [...]
Cool Dish, No Ice Cream Maker Required
Growing up in the Midwest, there wasn’t a holiday that didn’t get a little merrier courtesy of a scoop of homemade ice cream. Aside from the Cool Whip-topped pumpkin variety, there wasn’t a pie baked in the twelve-month cycle that didn’t receive the hand-cranked a la mode treatment. Christmas was no exception. Sure, 12 inches [...]
Keeping Tabs: There’s No Shortage of Tablet Devices to Put in Their Hands This Season
Before the iPad debuted in early 2010, no one really knew they needed a tablet. But, gosh, how did we ever live without them? Lighter than a laptop with more real estate than a smartphone, tablets have quickly become the go-to device for browsing the web, playing games or simply reading a book – whether on [...]
Be your best in 2012: How to improve your health, your career, your mojo and your potential
Welcome to self-help season – that time of year when you resolve to shed your old self (perhaps literally as well as figuratively) and decide to improve different areas of your life. While you could spend the better part of January reading the myriad of books, articles, and blog posts about how to stick to [...]
Game On: The Award Winners from the 2011 E3 Game Critics Awards
Best of Show/Best Original Game/Best PC Game/Best Action-Adventure Game BioShock Infinite (Irrational Games/2K Games for PC, PS3, Xbox 360) Best Console Game/Best Role Playing Game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda for PS3, Xbox 360) Best Handheld Game Sound Shapes (Queasy Games/SCEA for PSVita) Best Hardware PlayStation Vita (Sony Computer Entertainment) Best Action [...]
