A long, hot bath is a real treat. But from a 'green' point of view, that's probably what it should be: an occasional treat.
Doing the eco-accessory thing doesn't have to mean giving up designer labels. In fact, quite the opposite.
There are a lot of irritating aspects about large supermarkets for the wannabe eco-warrior, but the one that gets most of us hottest under the collar is packaging.
He seemed never to have acquired a skill that we all need: the ability to make another person worry about us.
When you actually see Barack Obama, it's startling how slight he is and how young he looks.
Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.
But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite.
I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too.
Smartphones are so fabulous in so many ways that it seems daft to be nostalgic about the days when an image did not go round the world in a nanosecond.
When I look at my clothes, I think of them as an expression of the joy and fun of fashion - with a bit of English eccentricity thrown in.
I knew him, but never felt that I got really close to Saint Laurent. But who really did? Betty Catroux, maybe.
When I was growing up, one or two girls were beautiful, but it was not an aspiration, right?
In an era when most bands were about nothing, the Manics were about everything: an eloquent scream, a j'accuse to the entire moribund millennium.
One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis.
To build an empire - or win seven Tour de Frances in a row - you must have a Lone Star-size ego and a dash of megalomania.
'TMZ' has the cash to buy off valets and info like flight lists or even the limo list of what celeb is being picked up where and when.
Most troublesome is the legalization of 'crowd funding,' the ability of start-up companies to raise capital from small investors on the Internet.
The weak economy, widening income inequality, gridlock in Congress and a presidential election: Those were perhaps the dominant economic and political themes of 2012.
I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
For lots of us, disabled people are not our teachers or our doctors or our manicurists. We're not real people. We are there to inspire.
