Real Simple: How to single task your way to success and sanity

Despite the fact that today we pride ourselves on being a culture of multi-taskers, I myself am anything but. For me, multitasking is the art of messing up several things at once. But we...

(Safely) Swing into Spring

Admittedly, I don’t know a birdie from a bogey. But my son, Philip, plays golf. And I have interviewed top golfers on my radio show, my favorite being the amazing Jason Day....

“Do you use protection?” American Academy of Dermatology study finds half of Americans are...

Skin cancer is one of the most preventable types of cancer, yet new data shows Americans aren’t “practicing safe sun.” In a recent survey, the American Academy of Dermatology found only half...

 A Passion for Fashion

As many of you already know, my mother Emily, aside from being a best-selling author of beauty and health books, was an award-winning fashion designer. Indeed, she won the coveted Coty, as...

A Survival Guide to the Rest of Your Life

Over the past several years, we have been inundated with books and articles on how we can magically turn our lives around simply by thinking happy thoughts. But those of us who have either...
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Diabetes Survival Guide

November marks National Diabetes Month. I mean, not that we shouldn’t be concerned about diabetes every month. Indeed, the numbers are staggering. Thirty million Americans have either Type 1, Type 2 diabetes,...
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Made in the Shade(s): The 411 on sunglasses

In some parts of the Islamic world, women are required to wear burqa’s. Now, this is not a political column so I am approaching this solely from a beauty angle. I believe they are...

For Your Eyes Only

Cheryl Ladd On Seeing Better Than Before Before there was Xena or Agent Scully or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, there was Cheryl Ladd. Cheryl became one of Charlie's...

Glisten Up

When it comes to putting your best face forward, let me start by answering the most common questions that both my readers and listeners have asked over the years.

Their Hearts Will Go On

With thanks to my genetics—not to mention my husband’s six-times-stented coronary arteries—I was always open to learning any new information I possibly could about our hearts. So I thought I knew pretty...