Author: candacebd

  • A 5-Step Sad Desk Makeover

    Whenever I move into a new office, the first thing I have to do is organize the space to make use of every inch available. While making sure that it feels like some place I’d actually want to be — not a sterile cube. (Yeah, I’m THAT person who goes into full desk makeover mode…

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  • Beyond Fluffy Lemon Ricotta Pancakes Recipe

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    This lemon ricotta pancakes recipe results in fluffy flapjacks without having to whip egg whites or use self-rising flour. It’s an easy, almost foolproof brunch you’ll love to serve with some fresh fruit or a side of scrambled eggs.

    Lemon Ricotta Pancakes by Candace Braun Davison/Lifebetweenweekends.com
  • Melissa McCarthy’s Blunt Advice That Every Manager Should Hear

    Starring in The Boss doesn’t mean Melissa McCarthy knows anything about managing people. Spending 20 years working her way up the ladder in the film industry, running her own production company, On The Day, and launching a clothing line (Seven7) does. The comedian’s a B-O-S-S, and in the May issue of Glamour — the first…

    Melissa McCarthy in Identity Thief (YouTube/Universal Pictures)
  • Tiffany Blue Taxis & Food Trucks Take Over New York

      In any other city, traffic would stop. People everywhere would gawk. And to some degree, they did. But in a city like New York, a girl leaping from robin’s egg blue taxi to robin’s egg blue taxi is, well, just another day in New York. The bizarre is all around you, all the time.…

    Photo: Candace Braun Davison
  • How To Tell If Your Idea Could Be A Serious Business

    Admittedly, I really wanted the title of this post to be “What The Founder Of Poo-Pourri Can Teach You About Making Sure Your Shhh Don’t Stink.” But that’s a little long, and it didn’t totally fit the vibe of this post, so I decided to go the straightforward route. It’s all inspired by a recent…

    Photo: YouTube/Poo-Pourri
  • The 5 Best Foods I’ve Tried In 2018 (So Far)

    For the past three years at Delish, my whole job has revolved around finding (and sharing) the most outrageously good, over-the-top foods and drinks a person could ever want. Today marks the start of a new chapter, as I join the new HouseBeautiful.com as the brand’s deputy editor. I don’t see my obsession with snacking…

  • Frontiers: 7 Places You Didn’t Think Of Visiting In Las Vegas

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    Before planning a trip to Las Vegas, you’ve got to check out our list of recommendations for things to eat, see, and do. Get more out of your next vacation.

    Las Vegas neon museum
  • Copycat Levain Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

    When you visit New York, there are a few musts: Seeing the Statue of Liberty (even if it’s from a distance, courtesy of the free Staten Island Ferry rides), pummeling your way through Times Square, taking a photo as if you’re pinching the spire of the Empire State Building in your hands — and eating…

    Copycat Levain Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies (Photos: Nathan Davison)
  • Chicken Pot Pie Soup & Biscuits

    Oh, the many, many things the internet has replaced. Who buys CDs anymore — or even downloads individual songs — when you can stream? Why subscribe to a print magazine when you can read most of the articles for free online? Why own a cookbook when all of the world’s best recipes are shared on…

    Chicken Pot Pie Soup & Biscuits
  • The Strange Delights Of ‘Tomorrowland’ Architecture

    As a kid, I bolted toward Tomorrowland at Disney World. Even though there were hardly any rides there that appealed to me, I relished in the kitschy, retro-futurism on display there. There was something so bizarrely fascinating about the architecture to me. It was hopeful and energetic, yet rooted in nostalgia. (Nowadays, that section of…

    Neon Museum sign - Photo: Candace Braun Davison
  • What TheSkimm Can Teach You About Launching A Business

    Since launching TheSkimm in 2012, Danielle Weisberg and Carly Zakin have grown their weekday newsletter to reach 6 million people and counting — and every step of the way, they’ve heard all kinds of reasons why their business wouldn’t work. Email is dead, women is too narrow of a market (really?!), the list goes on.…

    TheSkimm Interview With Marie Forleo
  • Guy Fieri, Accidental Life Coach

    Guy Fieri is exactly, and in some ways, nothing like what you’d expect. He’s absolutely the guy you see on Diners, Drive-Ins, And Dives and Guy’s Grocery Games — a bold jokester who’s food-obsessed and always down to have a good time. But what I didn’t expect the first time I spoke to him was…

    Photo: Chelsea Lupkin/Delish
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