Uniforms made easy

by Mir | Jul 12, 2010 | Contests

Last year was the first year my daughter had to wear a uniform to school, and I dutifully went out and bought her a variety of acceptable polos and khakis, and by halfway through the year, almost everything I’d purchased was falling apart. So I bought some more...

Two sale tips

by Mir | Jul 12, 2010 | Hot Hot Hot!, Quick Tips, What to Wear

First: If you love Eddie Bauer, even though their Ultimate Summer Sale is “officially” over—and now morphed into generic “End of Season Savings”—they’ve just taken another round of markdowns, so it’s worth checking out....

Winners of the Anne Zouroudi contest

by Mir | Jul 12, 2010 | Contests

Winners, we’ve got winners! Last week I asked you to picture a mystery in Greece and take a chance at winner Anne Zouroudi’s new novel, The Messenger of Athens. And now five of you are going to be reading all about it. Our five lucky winners are: Sarah...

Shoe cool

by Mir | Jul 12, 2010 | Hot Hot Hot!, What to Wear

I was half-heartedly clicking through today’s specials at 6pm.com when I finally hit the bottom of the page and saw the little box promoting women’s Skechers for $19.95 or less. That little box, my friends, takes you to two entire pages of under-$20...

Positively Pyrex

by Mir | Jul 12, 2010 | Hot Hot Hot!

Over the last few years I’ve successfully transitioned most of my food storage containers over to glass rather than plastic, and I have a few Pyrex baking dishes, too, but there’s always some occasion when I go for my trusty lasagna baker and realize...