My roommate gave me the new Taylor Swift CD for my birthday and this is her favorite song.  I think it has really pretty lyrics!

 With Gossip Girl on again tonight, the girls in my sorority house made a mad dash to the TV room at 6:59 central time.  A little argument they were having got me thinking.  Do you guys like Serena?  Sure, everyone agrees she has great coats and perfect hair, but does her personality make you like her?  Or are other characters more appealing to ...

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 Pilot Inspektor is my personal favorite. My sister’s is Audio Science.

What am I talking about? Celebrity baby names, of course.

With the recent birth of Ashlee Simpson and Pete Wentz’s baby boy, Bronx Mowgli, I thought baby names would be an interesting research topic. My mom thinks Simpson wanted to name her son Bronx to keep up with V...

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When talking to college students, the general consensus was that yes, they missed their homes. Yes, they missed Mom doing their laundry. But what did everyone admit they missed about home?

Their dogs. Why? As one college student put it, “You can’t talk on the phone to your dog the way you can talk to your mom!” But there’s a great solut...

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 “Going Green” is a phrase that is used so often today, it sometimes loses its force. With celebrities building “green” houses, and wearing “green” clothes, people today have begun to get the impression that being green can only be for the wealthy.

Green is a term used to describe the environmental efforts in place to save the earth and reduc...

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I was home for all of five minutes before my mom began to gush over her newest girl-crush. She’s genuine, she’s stylish, and she’s a great mother.

She’s Michelle Obama.

When I spoke to several other people about this, my mother’s newest obsession, they laughed in empathy. Apparently, moms across America have latched onto this future fi...

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