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Skip the sandwiches and get creative with one of these recipes

If you're like me, then one of your favourite things about the holidays is the FOOD. This is a time for indulgence - where we get to throw diets out the window (for a day or two at least!) and put on our most comfortable pair of (stretchy) pants in anticipation of the happy, drowsy, drunk-on-tryptophan post-Thanksgiving dinner feeling.

I’m putting the kiddies on detox, stat. We just straggled back into our home and lives after two weeks in the Netherlands for an absolutely lovely family reunion.

It pains us to report this, but a recent study has found that skinny women make more money then heavier women. For men the inverse is true, with thin men make less than heavier men.

In the military, we often don't get to have roots...somewhere that is permanently home. Now, with the prospect of being medically released from the forces, I find that roots are something I'm craving.

You might think this is a trick question, but scientists have put a price on happiness.

Not only is he gorgeous, hilarious, a talented actor and a Columbia-educated writer, James Franco also looks fabulous in lipstick, eyeshadow and black leather gloves. Franco posed for the cover of the second issue of Candy, a magazine dedicated to transversal culture and style. Franco, who identifies as straight, has shown his interest in exploring sexuality before by playing gay men and directing movies about gay men.

Sometimes when I let my mind wander to where it shouldn't go, random thoughts come to me...

We told you there would be big changes to Canada's most loved site for women and this morning, we unveiled a brand-new Chatelaine.com!

Get 30% off RACHEL Rachel Roy at The Bay and find out about the designer's new collaboration with one of our favourite style-savvy Canadians

Chocolate is known as a mood booster - but spending the afternoon in the kitchen with my mother for the first time since I was a child proved to be an even greater enticement of happiness.

We've all wished at one time or another that Mariah Carey would wear more clothing, but we also respect her right to be partially naked most of the time, should she be so inclined. This photo gallery courtesy of Jezebel.com shows that Saudi Arabian censors have not respected Carey's right to bare flesh, and have employed the powers of photoshop to ensure the diva's modesty.