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(vest, shirt, pants, shoes, hat) Another day of running on fresh snow… I wish the groundhog didn’t see his shadow. Jo saved me! I realized when we got to our meeting spot that I only brought one glove with me, so Jo brought me a sock that kept my gloveless hand perfectly toasty. I’ve been strength training consistently for 1.5 years, and a 10-minute core class still leaves me lying on the ground because I’m so tired. He wants to be comfortable at Trader Joe’s, so he removes his shoes. Let’s move onto some tangents… Let’s get talking about some...

Congrats! Your resume stood out from the crowd, and you diligently passed the first round of phone interviewsYou have been invited to the in-person interview and have never been more thrilled. Landing a new job could be a life-changing experience, so you like to do everything you can to create an impressive and lasting impression.Wearing the best professional pieces will help you look your best on the big day and offer you that added confidence boost you need to nail those questions.  1.  Work Dresses for Women You can look as put together with minimal effort if you go for a...

Kate Wall knows a lot about flooding. The gardener and author lives in Yeronga, a suburb on the Brisbane River in Queensland that is highly flood prone. In the major floods of 2011 her local community was devastated by flood waters and she found herself with little work. She kept herself busy helping gardeners restore their land. She shares the lessons she learnt restoring more than 150 gardens in Brisbane in this special extract from her book Gardening After a Flood. Restoring your garden after flooding The obvious signs of flood-damaged gardens are dead plants and layers of mud. What...

Kate Wall knows a lot about flooding. The gardener and author lives in Yeronga, a suburb on the Brisbane River in Queensland that is highly flood prone. In the major floods of 2011 her local community was devastated by flood waters and she found herself with little work. She kept herself busy helping gardeners restore their land. She shares the lessons she learnt restoring more than 150 gardens in Brisbane in this special extract from her book Gardening After a Flood. Restoring your garden after flooding The obvious signs of flood-damaged gardens are dead plants and layers of mud. What...

Skiing has long been a fashionable sport. Who can forget the way Princess Diana made the world fall for bold shell suits whenever she’d hit the slopes with her children in the early ‘90s? Over decades, celebrities have played with ski gear, making it stylish in the process, from Princess Diana’s retro oversized puffers to Jackie Kennedy’s head-to-toe red ski suit and Dionne Warwick’s reindeer-printed sweater.  Yet, when it comes to mountain dressing actually being fashionable enough to wear outside the slopes, it’s been a slow process. In fact, it’s one of the few reasons why I never tried the...