by Alison Moore Smith | Feb 21, 2013 | 100 Day Challenge, Lifestyle Design
This lesson can be summed up in one easy sentence: You become what you think about. Hollywood swirls in intellectual dishonesty. On the one hand, they court advertisers to pay millions of dollars to convince people to change their behavior and buying habits, while at...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 20, 2008 | for Home
Focal point. That was the big debate. While I agree that it's silly to position all the furniture in a room so that you have to crane your neck to see the television, the thought of building a family room all around a TV set makes me cringe. It's about family, right?...
by Natalie Hale | Aug 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
Video games are sweeping the nation. I couldn ?t believe just how popular the new Nintendo system was this last Christmas. It reminds me of a few years back when I was at a store and a new video game had been released and a boy was hovering by the demo console in the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 8, 2007 | Uncategorized
I guess you could say that we're magazine junkies. We have more subscriptions than are humanly possible to read. My husband has an entire drawer in his bathroom vanity dedicated to The Magazines That Came This Month That I Have Not Had Time to So Much as Crack Open...
by Alison Moore Smith | May 23, 2007 | Uncategorized
Although she never said it out loud, I could tell my mother had a real problem with soap operas. I suppose she didn't want to denigrate most of the other moms I knew who watched them, you know, while ironing and doing laundry — really slowly. Still, there was this...