Actually, I have one cool link and one cool video. Here they are:

9 Fat-Burning Eating Tips

Hungry Girl on Yahoo Food offers up 9 foods that help us Cool Broads on our journey to getting rid of (or fighting the onset of) excess flab.

My favorite idea: a salt-shaker filled with cinnamon to sprinkle on things like toast and your morning oatmeal, because apparently cinnamon helps the body process sugar more effectively and lower blood sugar levels. Why is that good? High blood sugar can lead to the body storing more fat.

Click here to read the full article.

Get Sexy Gisele Hair [Read more →]

For those of you who’ve relocated to a new town or a new state recently, I have a question for you: How long did it take for you to feel like you were home?

We moved to Virginia almost two years ago after living in 5 different states over a ten year period…so relocating was “old hat” for us. But this last move proved to be more difficult for us than past ones. And even though we love living here, it seems like it’s taking a while for me to consider our new home…home.

Most likely, this hesitation is a result of two issues that were new for us this time. First, we had kids in school and it was a mid-academic year move so that obviously contributed to the stress. Also, we never really considered previous moves permanent. They were just temporary stopovers in our adventure as corporate nomads. I was never expected to invest deeply in the area in which we lived, so I didn’t.

This time, however, we moved closer to family and back to a state that we’d lived in before (and went to college in). And with the kids getting older, making friends, and becoming involved in their community, we feel it’s important to settle down a bit.

I think we’ve also come to appreciate the benefits of letting your roots grow in a little (no, I’m not reversing my position on GREY roots), and how difficult it can be to sever those roots (the kids and I really miss our friends in Mt. Lebo, snow at Christmas, and I’m suffering a little Roethlisberger withdrawal).

So now that we’ve agreed that we should cool our jets and hunker down for a while, I find myself feeling a little like that guy who’s girlfriend wants to get married, but he’s having a hard time committing. And kind of like the girl in this song - a skittish, little grasshopper who doesn’t stay in one place for very long (but isn’t big on Goodbyes).

~tcb

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My hairstylist really did me in today. She told me I was 90% gray. 90%!

I was flabbergasted.

First of all, I’m a little irritated that only 10% of the hair of my head is fighting for my quickly-slipping-through-my-fingers youth. Secondly, I’m way to young to be practically, completely gray (or at least I thought I was). And thirdly, a 90% used to be something I’d strive for (in a gotta-make-the-deans-list kind of way). Now…not so much.

And to make matters worse, my hair grows fast, so now that I’m 90% grey, I really need to do my roots every 3 or 4 weeks (and 4 weeks is pushing it).

So, besides the fact that I’m applying chemicals to my scalp at least every month and will most likely contract cancer of the head, it’s incredibly inconvenient to have to color my hair that often. BUT, I’d rather walk across a bed of broken glass than show up in public with one inch roots so I’ve got a few tricks up my sleeve for those times when I just don’t have 45 minutes (or the energy) to color my hair myself or can’t schedule an appointment which, let’s face it, door to door can be two hours out of my day (and serious greenbacks out of my wallet).

Here they are: [Read more →]

One of the things I love about Diane Lane is the fact that she’s aging so gracefully. And what I mean by that is she seems comfortable in her own skin and doesn’t feel the need to stretch it, freeze it, and plump it beyond recognition (it has to be said, though, she IS genetically blessed).

And after reading her interview in the October issue of Redbook Magazine, I like her even more.

When asked to reflect on what she’s learned over the years, she responded, “To me, there’s no greater reward than being around people you care about and can be present with. Or to realize I’m the person I’ve always wanted to become — or, should I say, the person I always knew I was.” [Read more →]

photo by David Quesada

I’d like to propose a new rule: Cool Broads never save seats.

Who’s in?

Here’s my argument: If you and your friends want to secure specific seats or sit together, whether it be at the movies, the pool, or in church, everyone needs to get to the venue early. EVERYONE. Sending one person to reserve a whole row of seats, an entire pew, or twelve lounge chairs, is just not cool. It’s that simple.

All you have to do is dig deep into that Cool Broad heart of yours and put yourself in someone else’s shoes. For instance, if you make the effort to show up to the theater early, or come down to the pool the first morning of your vacation to soak up the sun, but there isn’t anyplace to sit because all of the seats have been “reserved”…it’s irritating. Right? Especially if not everybody shows up and choice seats are left empty, or people don’t trickle down to the pool for a couple of hours.

Here are a few places that I propose we allow the first who come to be the first to get served and agree not to save seats for others. [Read more →]