Category: Lifestyle

Questions to Ask Yourself Before Getting a New Pet

You’ve seen your neighbor’s Bichon Frise and think she’s just the cutest dog. Your friends have dogs that cannot seem to get enough of you when you come over and you cannot get enough of them. You’re feeling confident. You can do this. You decide you’re ready to bring a pet into your life. But are...

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Making a Major Difference with Small Changes

If you don’t have a huge budget for decorating, that doesn’t mean you have to come home to the same exact surroundings every single day. If you’re bored with how your home looks, change it! It doesn’t take that much effort, and it doesn’t even have to cost any money unless you want it to. Moving...

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Knowing What to Look For in a Good Bottle of Wine

You’re giving a dinner party. You’ve pulled out all the stops to create a menu everyone will be talking about for weeks to come. You’ve polished silver, pressed table linens, and taken out your best china. Everything is perfect, except for one important detail — you haven’t selected the right wine to serve alongside that fabulous...

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Is Your Diet Affecting Your Mood?

The holidays are coming, everyone’s getting excited… but you just don’t get it. For most people, December is a time for anticipation and happiness, but for others it can be a period of anxiety, stress, family drama, and chaos. There’s very little room for celebration or joy, and sometimes if you can’t get into the groove...

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How to Properly Decant and Serve Wine

Learning how to pair wines with food is only half the battle. There are some important tricks to serving a wine that you should know, so that you and your guests can enjoy the full effect of its structure and composition. Sommelier Lee Campbell of Manhattan’s Pranna Restaurant graciously agreed to come back to give TH...

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How to Make, and Keep, a Realistic Resolution

It’s that time of year again. When the holidays come, you have a lovely time with friends and family, spend too much money, get fabulous gifts, and eat too much yummy food. Then comes the New Year, bringing with it the hope and desire to improve on some part of our life. You are determined that this...

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How to Love Your Job

If you find getting out of bed and going to work each day a chore, there are things you can do to change this. You don’t have to be ecstatic to head to the office, but you can learn how to love your job again — or at least like it significantly more than you currently...

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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

It’s that time of year again: New Year’s Resolution time. That time of year when we evaluate our lives, see what we need to change, and feel a huge burst of motivation and energy that, “This will be the year that I finally… [fill in the blank].” Last year I approached my New Year’s Resolutions a...