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One of my favorite organic delis makes a fabulous BBQ brisket with ginger cole slaw panini on focaccia bread. The meat resembles pulled pork style BBQ, and the sauce is tangy and sweet, I bet you ...

Three days after moving into my Manhattan apartment, I looked out the window early one morning to see a neighbor across the street looking out as well. Only she was naked. ...

I'm another owner with cats that love tin foil. I'm also really lucky in that they leave my (many) plants alone for the most part. A loud clap and a firm "NO" has worked up to this point. I've a...

I've been using the sawtooth, poster strips, velcro type, you name it, for years and I love them. As TravelingRae said, you have to follow the directions exactly, and I check them every so often t...

I find this really moving and I wonder how each item affected the artist's emotional state. I remember my mother's reactions as we went through my grandmother's things (my mother has hoarding issu...

I went from Battery Park City in NYC to Mission Bay in SF and found they're both oddly similar in a planned community kind of way, but I wound up settling in Hayes Valley. It's convenient to prett...

Great job, can't help but wonder what the rest of the house looked like.

bepsf, it sounds like we live in the same building. O.o

One of my best investments as a single woman living alone was a ladder. It sounds strange, but it's so useful, from changing lightbulbs to hanging art/shelves to painting to cleaning to putting ex...

I thought a lot of the cattier comments he said on the show looked staged. Granted, he still said them, but I'm sure the producers encouraged him. It's reality TV, after all. I did, ...

Dad's coming for Christmas and he's a big tea drinker, he'd love this!

I work from home but my hours don't start until 1:00. It took me quite a while to set up a routine, but it makes things so much better; get up, shower, get dressed, and get outside before work.

I live alone and I work from home. After three weeks with my two kittens, I can say I'm much happier than before they came into my life. I'm getting up earlier, cleaning more often,...

"Come alive" means to me add something that's alive! Add a plant appropriate for the amount of light that reaches the alcove.

I had to put my cat Alex, who was 16 1/2, down in December 2007 after a long illness. It was incredibly difficult, but given her condition, there was only one decision. I knew what wa...