Books for Better Living
- Love + Sex
4 Tips for Positively Better Sex
Straightforward (but not too serious) talk about sex—how to get creative, make it better, and most of all, enjoy it. Kids: Feel free to plug your ears and sing, “la, la, la, la!”
- Parenting
6 Ways to Make Music with Your Kids
Learn how to make music part of your family traditions, and give your kids brain-boosting benefits.
- Healthy Living
5 Questions for the AstroTwins
To get the goods on how astrology works, we caught up with Tali and Ophira Edut—aka the AstroTwins—professional astrologers and authors of Shoestrology.
- Shine Food
Vietnamese Home Cooking: Lemongrass Chicken
Here’s the recipe that brought a taste of Vietnam to our kitchen.
- Healthy Living
3 Benefits of Core Awareness
Somatic educator Liz Koch's Core Awareness: Enhancing Yoga, Pilates, Exercise, and Dance is a guide for getting in touch with your core and tapping into your innate capacity for healing, building strength and increasing flexibility. We asked Koch to explain the value of cultivating core awareness.
- Healthy Living
Detox Without Juicing
The idea of living on nothing but juices doesn’t sound all that appealing to me, especially since many of them are really expensive – $58 a day?! For juice! - so I opted for another way to cleanse. Read on to find out.
- Shine Food
5 Ways to Prepare Your Vegetable Garden for Fall and Winter
Colin McCrate is the coauthor of Food Grown Right, In Your Backyard: A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Crops at Home. In the spring, he told us how to plant our first vegetable garden. Here’s his advice for preparing your plot for fall.
- Healthy Living
Why I Threw Away My Gym Membership
These are the promises offered by You Are Your Own Gym: The Bible of Bodyweight Exercises by Mark Lauren and Joshua Clark, along with others, such as “ingeniously simple” and “do-anywhere program.”
- At Home
4 Ways to Make a Small Space Look Bigger
According to Gillingham-Ryan, size constraints can actually unlock design creativity and allow you to focus on what's essential.
- Shine Food
My Ten Dollar Dinner Party
I put Melissa d'Arabian's book "Ten Dollar Dinners" to the ultimate test, and had myself a successful $10 dinner party.
- Healthy Living
3 Buddhist Lessons for Keeping Calm Amid Chaos
Life constantly presents new challenges, and many of us wonder how it’s possible to live peacefully when our foundation is consistently getting rocked and we’re left standing on shaky ground. Here are 3 tips to help quiet the mind and embrace the unknown.