1. Tuft and Needle Mattress I ordered this mattress online. Without ever having slept on it.  Before moving into our new house, David was adamant that we ditch our old Queen mattress and upgrade to a king. He was all, "Queen size mattresses are for children. I refuse to bring a Queen-size mattress into our castle. We're getting a new bed." I was unconvinced; After all, I sleep in the fetal position and require approximately ten ...

Let me ask you a question: do you have any idea how much you can accomplish when you're in a time crunch? Yeah, that was silly; I know you do. After all, think how quickly you used to crank out those papers the night before they were due. Or, how quickly you're able to get out of bed when you realize you overslept and only have a millisecond to get yourself ready and out the ...

There's a question that gets asked of just about every successful person, which is: did you ever imagine you'd be here; singing to hundreds of thousands of screaming fans/ being elected to a position of prominence/ selling your company for billions of dollars/ competing in a global competition? Could you ever have imagined that uploading one video to youtube seven years ago would have landed you in the same room as the president? Did you ...

I recently received a message from a lovely reader inquiring as to whether or not I believed the lady of a very small house might retain a vanity--a space where she might gaze at her natural beauty, apply makeup, dramatically spritz perfume, and the like. A dedicated beauty station. A surface wholly apart from the (limited) kitchen counters or the top of the toilet tank. Was that asking for so much, she wanted to know? ...

As a species that is perpetually evolving, we are always going through broad-scale phases of our development. As personalities and consumers, we're also always going through phases of interest, activity, preferences, and so on. This is Simply the way it is. These smaller scale phases vary in quantity and frequency from person to person; there are some individuals who settle on certain habits, practices, and meals and who are content to stick with those things ...