Everything Girl

You probably know Sabrina Sloan best as an American Idol contestant from A.I. season six, but you should know her for a lot more. Check out Part Two of our Interview…

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Sometime in 1997, when I first hooked up a computer to the “world wide web”, our dining room was converted to a family computer work space. The dining room became more of an office space in 1998, but it wasn’t until 2004 that I completely made the space “mom only” space. But […]

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Marie Phillips is the author of Gods Behaving Badly, which is to be released in the US December 10th (it was released in Marie’s native UK in August). She spent a little Q&A time with us recently…..

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You probably know Sabrina Sloan best as an American Idol contestant from A.I. season six, but you should know her for a lot more. Recently she signed a contract with Universal Records Motown and recorded an album of duets with fellow A.I. contestant Sundance Head, with a solo album to follow sometime next year. But the biggest news for Sabrina is that she has been cast to play Margie Hendricks in the musical Ray Charles Live!.

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Steve Carlson makes what can only be described as adult music. It’s a little bit country, a little bit rock & roll – to quote the Donny and Marie Osmond song – with a bit of funk, some R&B, and a lot of soul. His music is a fabulously crafted tapestry of genres, knitted together with Steve’s honeyed, passionately emotive, deeply textured voice and phenomenal musicianship.

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I’m the first to admit that for a woman who is incredibly driven, at times I struggle what it is I want.
I have these images swirling about in my head… I love my career and rarely feel that it is just a job but I also want to do more with my life. […]

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…from coffee cups, earrings and baby gear to stuffed critters, designer clothes and hand-spun yarns….A series of articles about the Handmade Revolution….

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My stylist’s hair is falling to the floor of the salon and it’s not because she’s getting her hair cut. At 26, she already owns a thriving hair salon and has dreams of opening a spa one day. While some girls her age can’t land a good job, move out of their childhood home, or balance their checkbooks, my stylist knows what she wants and is pursuing it with passion.

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Guests can make or break your entire wedding experience. All it takes is one rowdy guest who drinks too much and thinks they should dance on the tabletops to take your lovely reception from classy to trashy. But it is your special day and you don’t want to have to be running all over the place to make sure your many guests behave themselves and still have a good time. So what do you do?

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Being saddled with hips and a few other generous, er, assets in a culture that celebrates the Skinny Model can be hazardous to your emotional health. Or at the very least, your self-esteem. I contemplate this as I stand in my full-length mirror and study the hips I’ve inherited from a long line of women with “child-bearing hips.”

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I believe all things have a life span. A cycle, a duration, a period in which things are right and cozy and vital in the world of that thing. A natural phase marked by birth, growth, decline, and finally death, whether that thing is a human, a tree, a tee shirt, or a banana.

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Many of my clients happily report they are going on a cruise. But then they regretfully complain of all the weight they will gain from the endless availability of food.

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Not too long ago, someone wise told me that growing old also means growing mature & wise. Though I so badly wanted to believe him, somewhere deep down the person in me refused to accept it.

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It is that time of year when I feel the no turning back pull of the impending holiday season, a time when I must prepare to venture out of my studio for weeks at a time in order to take care of All Things Christmas in my home.

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We all have them — songs that seem to touch a secret place deep in your soul — sometimes secret even from you. They can grow and occasionally fester in you like an open wound, or they can fill you up, inspire you, and occasionally even heal you.

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My friends and I stayed in three places during our trip – Tokyo, Hakone and Kyoto – and while in the latter two we stayed at Ryokans, which are traditional Japanese inns. These are modest rooms with tatami floor mats and doorways that made me feel like a giant as they were barely an inch taller than I am.

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Recently I decided to do something I haven’t done for quite some time - read a book because I wanted to. I know this may not sound like a big deal but when you review books all the time, there isn’t much time for reading for pleasure.
I had, for several months, been craving — if […]

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