Pursuit of it All
Lifestyle, Travel

5 Bad Airport Habits You Need To Stop Right Now!

  Last week I had to travel to Illinois for a two-day business trip. I don’t travel frequently, but every other month or so I find myself in an airport headed somewhere west of here, to meetings, conferences, or something else job-related. The closest airport to me is in Baltimore, and unfortunately none of the airlines I’m able to use for said work trips have direct flights from there to my most frequent destination in Illinois. (Read: not Chicago.) This means I spend a significant amount of time in airports, consumed by layovers. It’s not all bad, really. The stress that comes with a…

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Get Cultured, Movies

It's peculiar alright: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (a movie review)

  It’s been ages since a movie I’ve wanted to pay 13 American dollars to see has hit the theaters. I feel like there’s a dead zone in the movie industry between, like, Labor Day and October. Alas, fall is here and that means movies-worth-seeing season is upon us! This weekend brought us Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and Queen of Katwe – two that have been on my list since early this year. I loaded up my three dudes and decided to start with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. It was a little more appealing to my older kid than Queen of Katwe, and to be honest,…

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Work/Life Balance

4 Ways To Battle The Afternoon Slump At Work — without caffeine!

  It’’s 3:30 PM. You’’re sitting at your desk. You’’ve not moved for two full hours and yet suddenly realize you’re exhausted. Recognize the scenario? Of course you do, it’s called real life, also known as the afternoon slump at work. I’ve always had this problem. No matter the job, no matter the setting, afternoon fatigue and I are age old frenemies. Fighting energy drain at work is a battle that most people face. When our energy levels falls into the red zone, we reach out for a caffeine or sugar fix to get us through. Amirite? What if I told you I’ve found better ways to battle that slump?…

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Lifestyle, Yum

Liza won the Food Lion Frugal Cook-Off in 2013 — get a behind the scenes look!

It turns out July 2013 was a very busy month for me, filled with all sorts of good stuff including my birthday and a trip to visit my sister in Brooklyn, where we gorged on all things food and I tried out for the show Home Cooks on Food Network. But the OTHER amazing thing that happened was a little thing called the Food Lion Frugal Cook-Off in Baltimore, Maryland. I was approached that June to participate in the cook-off with a bunch of other local bloggers, two of whom would be on my team. The only information we were given was this…

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Awareness

5 Political Myths That Keep People From Getting Involved

  There are a lot of myths surrounding advocacy, politics, and the political process in general. To get started, I’m going to focus this post on five. Before we get to the magical five, though, I need to ‘splain something. I thought a lot about what to write for my first contribution to this gorgeous sexy blog. I have a lot of ideas and am really excited about the opportunity to share tips and tricks for fitting advocacy into your already busy life. Over time, I’m going to share my secrets and more importantly, my screw-ups … because the world…

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