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Found: What Mom Really Wants for Mother’s Day
Hold your nose, the fragrance inserts touting “gift with purchase for mom” are tumbling out of every newspaper. Gullible dads and kids are desperately searching for a Mother’s Day gift that will answer our ‘focus-group tested’ secret wish to roll in a wildflower meadow or [...]
Alabama Shakes a New Music Moment
Last year the #1 country song in the nation was Brad Paisley’s ”Old Alabama,” which left me sort of longing for new Alabama artists to fill the void. That’s why I’m so excited about the fabulous young band Alabama Shakes from Athens. If you have ‘t heard of them yet, [...]
“Not Your Mother’s” products – Oh Wait, That’s Us
Trolling the beauty aisle I spotted a brand of products called “Not Your Mother’s” (hair spray, shampoo, etc.) and I chuckled thinking of my mom’s moments of backcombed, set hair (Dippity-do, anyone?). Surely this was aimed at me, a modern mom with a busy life?
Yet I was [...]
Pregnancy, the Great Equalizer (even for Jessica)
Dear Jessica,
It turns out that I’m sympathetic for you now that you’re pregnant.
At first, it’s hard to feel badly for someone who lets everyone into her business via a reality show, or who infamously doesn’t get why a can of tuna is labeled,”Chicken of the Sea,” or who poses naked [...]
Find: Shoeholics Magazine
This find goes out to all the moms who tottered on stilettos while 9 months pregnant, who never gave up and stuffed their swollen feet into spongy flats like the rest of us. It’s Shoeholics magazine, which claims to inform an “international lifestyle” of shoe [...]
Find: Just $5 to Protect Your Cell Phone This Summer
Our find this week is not cute or trendy but perhaps the least expensive and most practical find yet! How many trips will your cell phone take to the lake, beach or pool this summer? Just think of the opportunities for water, moisture from [...]
Any Excuse for a Sip – Wine and Weld Has Arrived
I understood the beauty of the concept the moment I tried Birmingham’s pioneering sipping diversion, Sips N Strokes. You bring your own vino and they supply everything else, from the canvas to the paints and brushes.You leave with a painted canvas after following an instructor [...]
Better than Downton Abbey: A Real American Duchess
If you swoon over the eye candy of the Grantham Estate with it’s polished tea service and creaseless newspaper, your answer to between-season withdrawal is the story of a genuine American heiress-turned-Duchess, Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsam, cousin to the founder of Biltmore Estate.
Consuelo, in her own [...]
Find(?): Mobile Spray Tan Parties
When we first learned about (warning: oiled-up bikini model on landing page) MyTan2Go.com, a Birmingham area mobile spray tan service that also offers spray tan birthday parties, our first thought was of all those moms airbrushing little girls on “Toddler and Tiaras.”
Ugh.
But upon reflection, we realized toddlers and their [...]
We’re Not Gonna Take It – Moms, Sluts, Students or Otherwise
We moms raise our kids to demonstrate common courtesies, to respect their elders, to not “sass.” If a bully were calling our kids names, we wouldn’t hesitate to go to the principal, the Board of Education, whoever, and whip up a dose of mama bear’s [...]