Posts filed under ‘Culture’
Introducing the Schick Quattro for Women Style Squad!
I know — you’ve been wondering how you can get more Health & Swellness into your life, right?
The blog, my tweets, my freelance articles on various outlets and my posts on thekit.ca just simply are not enough!
Well, then, you’re in luck!
I’m part of the brand spanking new, just launched today Schick Quattro for Women Style Squad! Along with Beautygeeks Janine Falcon and A Haute Mess Niki Blasina, we’re going to be all over the Schick Quattro for Women Canada Facebook page for the next several months, so you can get plenty more of the F-U-N and advice you’ve come to expect from the three of us right on Facebook!
So go on and ”like” the Schick Quattra for Women Canada Facebook page, will ya? And leave comments and such? Yes? Awesome sauce.
Check out Health & Swellness on thekit.ca!
Just a head’s up that I’ve joined the Blog Ambition network on The Kit — be sure to visit me there twice a month for exclusive blog posts!
How reading Twilight makes your life better
I always have a book on the go. So this study about how reading satisfies a deep human need intrigued me–and the fact that the study involved Twilight and Harry Potter books.
Seems that when we read, in our minds we “become” vampires (in the case of Twilight) in that we immerse ourselves in the fictional community–and this satisfies our basic human need for belonging.
(Come to think of it, I’m currently reading Bacon: A Love Story–and it’s taking me awhile to get through it. Perhaps I can’t identify with truly belonging with bacon; more of a just-wanna-eat-it relationship, me thinks :).
With no TV, we wouldn’t necessarily exercise more
TV is linked to so many unhealthy things (for making you feel less satisfied with life and increasing your risk of heart disease), so I found this research from Ohio State University interesting: while TV’s often seen as evil, our favourite TV shows can play an important role in our lives.
Say if Mad Men were to go off the air? For some of us who have developed a strong connection to characters, this would be particularly distressing. And the study found it’s not as though we’d be likely to start being more socially and physically active. In fact, we’re more likely to start watching reruns of the show or surf the net.
