Hello! The good people at the UK-based  Appliances Online have asked if I could link to their  Smeg appliances  in exchange for my weight i...

If you saw yesterday's post, I showed you bits of an article from the March 1950 Chatelaine in which "business girl" Beverly ...

From the March 1950 issue of Chatelaine , "Housewives Are A Sorry Lot" by Beverly Gray : Get mad all you like. But somewhere in t...

Holmes & Edwards ad from the March 1947 Ladies' Home Journal Patrick had soccer on Valentine's Day so we instead had a mini...

Looking for a special Valentine's Day Menu for you and your sweetheart? Want to give it a vintage touch? Want to watch him run, screamin...

I love reality TV, I'm a sucker for it. I especially like  interesting and informative  reality TV - something that hasn't really c...

My cousin Amy just had a baby - her first - this weekend. Welcome to the world, Ethan Brady, and congrats to his lovely mom and dad! I hope ...

I love how articles from the 1950s are like Germans: a nti-semitic  blunt. Sure, we have antagonistic headlines today that also present op...

February kicks off Black History Month - a reminder of not just the history of black people, their accomplishments, and how they rose up aga...

A couple of months ago my Aunt Diane emailed me and mentioned that she was taking Zumba  classes and that she was quite enjoying them. Now, ...

This blog post is about Paris even though I'm in Spain now; that's partially because my first day in Spain was spent feeling sick an...