by Nicole Etolen | Oct 7, 2012 | Health & Beauty
Friday night, I had a Sleep Pink Party in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It was a pretty low-key event, with just me, my mom, and my aunt (who didn’t want her picture online. It took some doing, but I got my mom to let me post hers) hanging out watching...
by Nicole Etolen | Oct 7, 2012 | Books
In the first Scary School book by Derek the Ghost, we were introduced to not only Derek, but to a slew of characters who attended the school. That book was basically a compilation of the observations by the ghastly author, an 11-year-old who happens to be a ghost. At...
by Nicole Etolen | Oct 7, 2012 | Books
Stand Up for Girls with LitWorld and Take Action for Every Girl’s Right to a Quality Education on 10.11.12, the International Day of the Girl Did you know that 523 million girls and women worldwide cannot read or write? Imagine not being able to escape into a...
by Nicole Etolen | Oct 6, 2012 | Gift Ideas
Did you know that the Mad Hatter, that zany, slightly off-kilter character from Alice in Wonderland, has his very own holiday? Well, he does, and it just happens to be today! I think you all know what an Alice in Wonderland freak I am, so it should come as no surprise...
by Nicole Etolen | Oct 6, 2012 | Books
I love learning. If I could swing it, I’d spend the rest of my life in college. I enjoyed the smell of a freshly copied syllabus, the stress of cramming for an exam, and the excitement of typing the very last punctuation mark on a long term paper. To me, that...
by Nicole Etolen | Oct 6, 2012 | Books
In Sheltered by Debra Chapoton, five troubled teens living together unsupervised confront demonic forces and are compelled to deal with their problems in distinctly different ways. Paranormal meets psycho meets Goth in this story of a supernatural haunting and...
by Nicole Etolen | Oct 5, 2012 | Yummy
Saturday, September 29th was International Coffee Day. You know I was all over that holiday! Of course, to me, any day is coffee day, but I’m glad my favorite beverage has its own special day to celebrate its sheer goodness. That day also happened to be the...
by Nicole Etolen | Oct 5, 2012 | Books
Smilodon Seven years after a near-fatal mauling by a grizzly bear, in which his only son was killed, Jason Bristol, a one time prize-fighter and expert animal tracker, is back in the woods tracking again–when he’s not nursing the nearest fifth of whiskey....
by Nicole Etolen | Oct 4, 2012 | Health & Beauty
Nearly 30 years ago, cancer survivor Margery Gould Rath decided that she wanted to find a way to both celebrate survivors and raise much-needed fund for research that could help other patients diagnosed with cancer. She started a “move-a-thon” campaign,...
by Nicole Etolen | Oct 3, 2012 | Health & Beauty
I have an odd sentimental attachment to Listerine. My grandfather always kept a bottle of it in his bathroom, and to him, it was pretty much a cure-all. To this day, I still use Listerine on bug bites, it takes the itch out almost right away! Of course, although it...
