Author: candacebd
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What to Remember When You Feel Like a Failure
Sometimes we all fall short of the mark. We shoot for a huge, life-altering goal, we map out every detail, we jot down benchmarks to get us there…and we come nowhere close to it. We want to disappear, to push it out of our heads and forget we ever even tried, to magically prevent people…
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5 Fall TV Shows to Get Psyched About Watching
Every September and October brings a whole new round of shows to watch — some great, some mediocre at best, some destined to be canceled before ever airing a fourth episode. Here are the five I’m most looking forward to catching (and, oddly enough, most of them seem to be on NBC).
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7 Songs Written By Celebs You Wouldn’t Expect
It’s fascinating to me how many famous musicians have penned hits for other celebrities. So much so, in fact, that I recently fell down a digital rabbit hole looking up who wrote what — and, naturally, I had to share my findings with you. Are there any hits I’ve overlooked? Tell me in the comments!…
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Why People Aren’t Always As Supportive As You’d Hope
A week ago, I picked up a copy of Brene Brown’s Rising Strong, and just about every chapter has a “Daaaang, Brene” moment. As in, “Daaaang, Brene, that insight cut me to my core,” or “Daaang, Brene, I’ve never looked at it that way.” I’m not one to dog-ear or underline parts of books (I’m all…
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Target’s Getting in On the Beauty Box Game Too
Like many people, I rarely open retail email blasts, unless it’s the weeks leading up to Black Friday. But this one made me click the subject line before my brain could even fully register the subject line: New Beauty Box. Just $5. It was from Target. Target? We’ve covered all kinds of beauty boxes here…
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The Quest for the Rainbow Bagel
It all started, as so many great adventures do, by mindlessly scrolling the Internet*. Specifically, Instagram, where I have lost many a minute of my life browsing the “Explore” tab. On Friday, one Insta was a total thumbstopper. I was completely mesmerized by it. It was like a unicorn of the breakfast world: A rainbow,…
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Why Mean Girls Exist
Years after its release, people are still quoting Mean Girls, and not just because the one-liners are off-the-charts amazing (though, let’s be honest, they are). Recently, I was told that the most powerful comedy is the kind that’s used to skewer underlying truths in our everyday lies and point out the absurdities within them. That’s…
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Watching The Cookie Man’s Treats Being Made Is Oddly Mesmerizing
I’ve been known to take a sudden detour when something catches my attention. Particularly when it smells like freshly baked cookies. While the scent wafting from The Cookie Man in Cairns, Australia, initially caught my attention, I found myself standing in front of the shop for a full two minutes, awkwardly telling the baker I wasn’t…
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5 Ways to Savor Summer This Labor Day Weekend
Though summer doesn’t technically end until Sept. 23rd, our minds tend to start shifting toward fall just after Labor Day. The long weekend feels like a last hurrah, so why not do it up big, before you start getting consumed by sweater weather and all things pumpkin spice? Consider this your Labor Day weekend must-do…
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5 VMA Looks That Set the Stage On Fire
Hands down, the biggest thrill of the VMAs is its sheer unpredictability. The show’s big, milestone moments can earn a celeb at least a few days’ worth of PR — see: Lil’ Kim’s strategically placed seashell ensemble in the late ’90s, Britney dancing with a boa constrictor in the early 2000s, Miley Cyrus introducing the…
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Frontiers: 16 Things You MUST Do in Sydney, Australia
Before planning a trip to Sydney, Australia, make sure you read this complete guide for things to do, where to eat and sights to see.
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A New Mantra for the Overstressed
As a new school year kicks into gear and the lazy days of summer start to slip away, it’s easy to go from feeling refreshed and ready to take on new projects to obsessively worrying (read: panicking) about doing it all. That’s always been me, and it was especially true during my junior and senior…
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