Whether you're boarding the back-to-school boat or slipping onto the return-to-routine ship, chances are the matter of packed lunches is looming large for you. The good news is that, following this post, the hardest part of the process is going to be dreaming up the actual lunch food combos. I won't be offering a morsel of assistance on that front either, let's get that clarified up front. But hey, what I can offer you are ...

Here's the situation: you pull a garment off of its hanger, and afterwards you probably leave the hanger right where it was on the rack, don't you? Yeah, I know you do. The hindrance to doing so occurs at the moment at which you go to hang things back up, be they an entire load of laundry, or just a single item of clothing. It's usually quite difficult for people to muster up the inclination ...

Sometimes I fear that the vast majority of us first world residents are so disconnected from the production process that we've become limited in our capacity to create. After all, most of us aren't surrounded by women sitting at looms, or workers busy on an assembly line. We are a nation of consumers. We move into fully constructed--sometimes fully furnished--houses. We buy dresses, not yards of fabric. Our knowledge of various entities is constrained to ...

The happiest of Fridays to you. In keeping with my constant desire to amaze and delight you, I present to you the work of Cynthia Brooks Design. There have been many designer spotlights to date, all of them remarkable in their own right. Henceforth, C. Brooks owns the rights to pretty, dainty, and delicate. Her work is clearly feminine, although never annoyingly so, and this, I believe, is achieved by careful off-setting of lady-elements; a chartreuse ...

Meg Biram is the sort of person you'd want on your life team. There is the sense about her that she knows a great deal about a great many things, and that, if she happened upon a foreign subject, she would readily acquaint herself and gain expertise. A creative entrepreneur in the truest sense of the term, Biram's various professional pursuits include: consulting on digital media marketing, designing a line of monthly Manifesto Ts, creating and selling ...