You know that dry, bad breath-feeling that is always there when you wake up in the morning? Well, with Crest Pro-Health Night, kiss that bad breath good-bye. After flossing and brushing for the last time at night, rinse a small amount in your mouth. Immediately you'll notice that your mouth isn't burning. Maybe that's because this mouthwash contains no alcohol. It's very gentle....

Glove 'N Care Hand Cream must be the best-kept secret of nurses and medical technicians. Whether you have dry hands from all the hand-washing, or from wearing those latex gloves all day, or if you're a "civilian" like myself, you will want to know about this hand cream. I first sampled this cream when a dental sales rep gifted me with a tube. "Try this," he said, &qu...

I write a lot. And when I'm not writing, I'm doodling. So I know a lot about pens. Sure, they all start out nice enough. Smooth. Easy to hold. But after a few uses, globs of ink start to form. Then the globs smear across the paper, and next thing I know, my hand is covered in black (or blue) stains.Not with the Pilot G-2 pen. This is the best pen I have used in years. I can't get en...

As soon as I saw the first commercial for Brain Age, I knew I had to buy a Nintendo DS Lite. I was a little worried. You see, my grandson has a GameBoy and when he plays, I can hardly see the screen. When he asks for a little help, I can't tell what is happening on the game. But not with Nintendo DS Lite. The screen is big and I love that it actually has 2 screens. One with the game shown, ...

I loved THE LOVELY BONES by Alice Sebold. I think we all did. It was a sensitive, moving story about the murder of a little girl and how her family survived the loss. I think almost all the women read that book several years ago. It was on the bestseller list for months. Then, I read LUCKY, again by Alice Sebold. LUCKY told the true, brave story of Alice Sebold's survival&nbs...

When I first started writing jokes for comics, it was important to read about new things in as many diversified areas as I could absorb. I looked around for an interesting way to find news on science-related subjects, and I discovered DISCOVER MAGAZINE. Under the magazine title, it says "Science, Techology and The Future", and that's exactly what the magazine publis...

Pop. Politics. Scandal. Style. That's RADAR magazine. My new favorite magazine. Sure to make me laugh. I wish it were published monthly.This month, the cover features Nicole Kidman's head on a Barbie doll's body. The name of the accompanying article is, "Help! I can't move my face!" Don't you love that? Doesn't it make you move your face into a big, fat smile??...

So I had my eyes checked and didn't really need new glasses - my prescription hadn't changed. Nonetheless, I let my eyes wander over the frame cases at Lenscrafters and a pair of glass frames called out to me. Of course, I had to try them on.The frames are plastic. The color is a warm mahogany brown, but here are the reasons they are super-cool: the inside of the frames are a honey colo...

Every Christmas I make chocolate-mint fudge. From Hershey's chocolate mint chips. My recipe is delicious and easy and all the grown kids want a batch of fudge with their gifts. And then.......Hershey's discontinued making the chocolate mint chips. My daughter-in-law (one of the fudge fans) told me that they were selling mint chocolate chips at World Market. Can you use those, she asked?...

My husband daily reads the local newspaper. I read the USA TODAY. My read is better. I get four sections, five days a week. The main section contains all the news stories, editorial, national weather and temps, Across the Nation (lists all the states and one news item from each state), Nationline (the most interesting news items) and the lead stories. There's always a chart (lots ...

I was walking through Staples, on my way to the paper department, when a splash of color caught my eye -- more accurately, a bin of colored splashes. Calculators shaped like splashes. They are called Splat Calculators and you can tell whoever named them didn't have a vivid imagination since even an idiot can see they look like a splat.I bought a blue one, anyway. I thought it would be ...

They say you can't teach an old dog new tricks, but when the old dog is your 57 year old mom and the new tricks are on this Samsung cell phone, the teaching and learning come easy. This phone has come a long way from my first Princess Telephone, let me tell you.They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but when I used my Samsung camera phone to shoot a photo of me sitting on a bed in La...

Santa (my grown kids) brought me a digital photo frame this year.  My collection of grandchildren's photos was threatening to bury me. The photos that covered every square inch of my house - my walls, my refrigerator, my windows - now is contained inside this one digital frame, which shuffles the photos it displays, playing no favorites. Which is more than I can say for most ...

I already had an IPod. One of those original ones. The ones where the batteries didn't hold a charge. No matter how much I charged mine, it could only play for about an hour. And that was if I used it right after I charged it. If I let it set awhile after a charge, my playtime went down.Not so with my new Touch.  I have loaded all my songs, plus now I have loaded that music video where...

The Worst Thing I've Done is not the worst thing I've read. It doesn't even come close. It's also not the best thing I've read. I loved the author's riveting Stones From the River,so I expected to love this story just as much. This book tells the story of Annie and Mason and Jake and Opal. A triangle, with a little girl in the center. There's a su...

Perry Crandall and Forrest Gump have a lot in common. They are both slow. They are both functional. They are both lucky. That's about where the similarities end. Perry Crandall is a nice person, compared to the book-version of Gump, where he was not the most likeable character. Perry Crandall is surrounded by a greedy, mean family, while Gump had the nicest of moms. Gump does not get the gi...

I've stayed at the Luxor Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas before. Maybe it was about 4 or 5 years ago. The location is perfect. Almost at the upper end of the Las Vegas Blvd strip, with a monorail and walkway which takes you back and forth to the Excalibur and Mandalay Bay. The Luxor was nice. I liked the decor, I liked the big windows -- every room in the pyramid has a huge slanted windo...

I saw the commercials for Time Warner Digital Phones and was taken with the idea of a single phone bill, every month, for all the long distance (including Canada and Puerto Rico) calls I could make and for local phone service as well. Also included in the $39.99 monthly fee (plus taxes, of course!) is Call Waiting, Call Forwarding and Caller ID. I not only love the Caller ID, I love that if I h...