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Don’t beat yourself up if your first instinct after a long week of work is to stay in bed on Saturday morning rather than take that 7 a.m. spin class your friends have been nagging you to attend, or if your Friday night routinely consists mainly of you staring at the TV screen until your chin hits your chest.

I’ve written about the Shake Weight, which I believe owes its high sales to gag-gift purchases for bridal showers. I’ve also written about rocker shoes, and how they’re not really going to help you burn any additional calories — and could cause injury.

Having a will covers everything from what happens to the family cottage to who would care for your kids if necessary — find out how to get yours made.

Quirky accents and bright colours take traditional style beyond prim and proper

An ingenious way to bring order to your nest.

A friend recently told me a story about one of her colleagues, who has been with her boyfriend for ten years, and has lived with him for three. Her boyfriend works at an investment firm, and this colleague of my friend’s never cared about his salary, until recently.

This Belleville Ont. native has 11 books and two CBC Canadian Literary Awards to her name

Turn these in-season goods into delicious dishes in minutes: cinnamon quinoa with dates, multi-bean salad, roasted beets with dill-yogurt drizzle

I usually like to plan my vacations for somewhere warm and sunny, but all of a sudden London, England is looking awfully appealing, thanks to news of a new hotel package in the city that's devoted to sleep.

I have a great purse. It’s perfectly functional and reasonably funky — I picked it up at H&M last fall. It set me back twenty bucks — and I actually get the occasional compliment on it.

I'm generally very social and I like to busy myself with shared activities — bike rides, brunch dates, bar stool-sitting — but every now and then, I find myself with a few quiet days and it always feels like a nice break.

Find out how to turn negative thinking on its butt and get you to the gym