Can Lipstick Make You Skinny (and Younger)?
For the latest beauty craze, look to the chemical “resveratrol” found in red wine and in the skin of grapes. Researchers are exploring whether it’s a component of why French women don’t get fat and have relatively little heart disease, despite eating high fat diets. And there’s conjecture that resveratrol might be absorbed through the skin. So now in our local beauty emporiums, we can find lipsticks and skin creams infused with this potentially life-extending chemical. Pucker up.
Illustration by Petra Börner
Do I Look Fat In These Pants?
On the plus (and perhaps minus) side of being single is not having to contend with an emotional mirror right nearby. I understand what a growth opportunity that can be. But sometimes it’s a crutch. When we look in the real mirror, there is no one to answer back how we look in our pants. We have to assume it’s good enough, and get on with the day.
The Ultimate Flourless Chocolate Cake
A year ago, I made this recipe for the first time, after being invited to a Passover seder. The host was not a close friend, and I felt pressure to please her with a delicious dessert. I turned to my most reliable baking book, from Cooks Illustrated. And the results were fantastic. As there’s no flour in the recipe, it’s a perfect Passover cake (if you’re in need of such a thing). But it’s scrumptuous for any festive meal. With only a few ingredients, it’s easy, too!
Image: Chocolate Mouth, 2000, Irving Penn
Does Promiscuity Make You Single?
In a Hollywood movie to be released this fall, the hard-partying female lead gets nervous after reading in a magazine that women who’ve had sex with more than 20 men, will never get married.
So that explains it.
A Sign of Hope
A few hours ago, I saw a 91-year-old woman coming out of my Therapist’s office. I found it so inspiring, that even at her advanced age, she’d still want to work on finding wholeness.
Image via Royal Art Lodge (my new favorite source for art).
Have You Pimped Yourself Out for a Meal?
Surveying the dating/boyfriend history, I can recall two men who I went out with, in large part, because of fine dining. Which is probably a step above wanting to be with someone solely because of his hair. (Been there, done that, too.) Sound familiar?
Image via The Royal Art Lodge
The Swings of Life
Last fall, I bathed in ecstasy, along with other San Francisco Giants fans, as our scrappy team defied the odds to become world champions. It was a glorious feeling. As of today, the first week into a new season, the Giants are in last place. And such is the fleeting nature of good times and as logic dictates, the bad times, too. In other words, this too shall pass. Or so I tell myself.
Image via Dan Witchell
I Have a Dream
Photo: April 4, 1968, balcony of the Lorraine Hotel, after Martin Luther King was assassinated.
By Victor Louw.
Archive for April, 2011
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