Do you crave chocolate, candy, ice cream or salty snacks like peanuts and chips? Do you exercise to increase sexual appeal? Do you think that low carb diet causes spontaneous combustion? You’re not alone!
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I liken a stunning debut to falling in love. For better or worse.

I’ll tell you a secret. For several years I’ve made it a habit to see bands play that I’ve never heard of. Especially if I am traveling, I’ll pick up a newspaper and find a show that sounds cool and go. Why? Because I may thus see Beck before he was signed by Bongload, or members of Sonic Youth playing with friends, all under assumed names. And since so many of the brightest stars in music and art burn out early, none of us wants to miss the next Hendrix playing in coffeehouses or the next Van Gogh showing in neighborhood parks. You never know where that coffeehouse or park will be and so you keep your vigilance up, ready to pounce and proclaim the Next Thing.
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SA Review of La Cuisine De Joel Robuchon: A Seasonal Cookbook
From Chaucer to Faulkner, The Literary Lunch: Recipes for a Hungry Mind looks at some of the more delicious food references throughout the history of classic literature, and turns these into real, kitchen tested recipes which can be cooked up at home.
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We’ve come the wrong way, baby! It appears that women have won another round in the quest for gender equality: alcohol consumption. A recently released study reveals that binge drinking by students at women’s colleges has increased 9 percent in the last year alone, inching women ever closer to full parity with men.
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Description:Aztecs named the avocado ahuacatl which means “butter of the forest”. The avocado is a actually a fruit or as I like to call it a veggie fruit. It is usually prepared as a vegetable. Avocados actually contain more potassium per ounce than bananas by 60 percent. The “Hass” avocado is the most commonly consumed avocado and accounts for 80% of consumption. Today the 400 varieties of avocado are grown in Mexico, Central and South America, Israel, the West Indies (Caribbean island), South Africa, California, Florida, Hawaii, Australia, India, North Africa, and some Pacific Islands.
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This time in Report Card, the randomly chosen writer is Kerrey Madler. So let’s see if she practices what she preaches.

REPORT CARDS - Kerrey Madler’s Reality Check

6:30 am
I’m not a morning person, so I need motivation to get out of the warm, cozy comfort of my bed. So I think of miso soup and soy milk, yum. While water boils for miso soup, I squint at the list of freezer stuff on the fridge door. I think I’ll thaw the All-around turkey burgers for dinner. I drink my miso with two cubes of tofu and pepper added, and scarf down a banana. While the soy milk is heating up in the microwave, I throw on some clothes for work. I add multigrain Cheerios, a store brand cause it’s cheaper, to my soy milk, and grab a frozen entre’e (Taj Gourmet Chicken Tandoori with Vegetables),a bottle of frozen iced tea, a fruit yogurt cup and an orange for lunch, grapes for snacking. (more…)

Prepaid calling cards are very popular and can be bought nearly any place. A prepaid calling card can be purchased at gas stations, convenience stores, or even on the Internet. Many people mistakenly buy a card with the lowest priced call rate, however the cost might be more expensive when other issues are taken into consideration.
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Mango Love

Looking for love,

I walk to Starbucks
for an iced latte — watch
a man, sitting at a table, (more…)

I have a few tips about HOW to sell those articles to magazines. First of all, buy all the magazines for writers. For example: The Writer, or Poets & Writers, Writer’s Digest, and other trade journals. You can find these in the magazine and news section of any bookstore. Start reading these gems, so that you can sell what you write. (more…)

As students retreat from the world of academia for the summer, we are offered the chance to reflect on the campus brouhaha and rampant emotions of the past year. Undoubtedly, campus feminist groups carried the torch for receiving the most press coverage in 2007-2009. In a single year, feminist groups at American colleges and universities managed to rename Valentine’s Day, show their aggressive, militant side by shutting down prominent female speakers on their campuses, and (ending the year with a bang) protest facts regarding sexual violence against women. (more…)