Day: June 15, 2019

June 15, 2019 at 02:00PM by CWC I started kindergarten early—not just because I was ready, but because maybe, just maybe, that accelerated year was another school year my dad would get to experience with me. I celebrated many childhood birthdays within the walls of a hospital. I can break down a wheelchair and perfectly place it in the trunk of a Honda at record speed. My mom and I are on a first-name basis with many nurses, and we update his doctors by texting their personal cells. This has been my normal for my entire life. My dad was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes (Type 1 diabetes), a bear of an illness, when he was five years old. Since then, he’s suffered every complication imaginable; his prognosis ultimately became terminal due to his heart and kidney issues. He’s endured several laser eye procedures, quadruple-bypass heart surgery, and has had both of his legs amputated. He is in a constant state of congestive heart failure, and only has one functioning kidney. The other works at 20 percent, which translates to Stage 4 kidney failure. He’s even losing the ability to use his hands. ad_intervals[‘401183_div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘401183_div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’);}); } }, 100); Despite all of this (or perhaps because of it) my father is one the most incredible people I know. He is many things: stubborn, Irish, sarcastically funny, kind, generous, wise, and strong. He never complains, and continues to fight through his disease like a warrior.

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June 15, 2019 at 10:02AM by CWC It doesn’t matter what I do. If I put a bowl of guacamole in the fridge, those beautiful green avocados turn into an unappetizing brown mush in a matter of minutes. With a long list of failed hacks under my belt—and an embarrassing amount of wasted guac!—I was starting to give up hope. But then one ridiculously simple trick came through and totally changed the game. Forget keeping the pit in the center of your guacamole or dousing it with extra lime juice. When it comes to keeping your guac fresh, the only hack you really need to know involves nothing but a splash of water. To keep guacamole from oxidizing and going brown, the key is not letting any air get to it. And that’s exactly why most methods aren’t going to do the trick. All you need to do to keep your guac green is smooth out the top layer with a spoon or knife and pour a thin layer of water on top to create an airtight seal that gets the job done better than any plastic wrap ever could. ad_intervals[‘401125_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘401125_div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8891272-3’);}); } }, 100); The next time you want to eat guac, just grab the bowl, dump out the water, give it a nice stir, and bam—it’s as green as it was when you made it. This method should make it last a few days in the fridge, but of course

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June 15, 2019 at 08:00AM by CWC Upon first thought, phone sex may seem like a relic of the past thanks to the growing list of video-chat options: Skype, FaceTime, Snapchat, etc. But research shows auditory cues facilitate arousal, meaning it makes sense to keep the vintage-ish mode of communication in your rotation. So if you’re in an LDR or are simply looking to upgrade your sexting sessions, consider dusting off your phone’s primary function and dialing out for a sexy call. But…if you’re rusty or have never given phone sex a shot, you may not be so amped or ready to dial that first number. For tips on verbal finesse, Kristen Tribby, head of education at pleasure-product company Fun Factory, and indie erotic filmmaker Erika Lust are here to explain how to have have phone sex in nine simple steps. Below, get expert tips for how to have phone sex in a way that doesn’t make you want to fake a bad connection. 1. Make sure your partner is down Before you dive right into dirty talk, make sure your partner is into it—with “it” being both phone sex in general and doing it in that very moment. Why? Because consent is sexy, plain and simple. ad_intervals[‘392788_div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘392788_div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’);}); } }, 100); To test the waters on this front, Tribby suggests saying, “I think your voice is so sexy, and I would love to have a hot phone date with you. Would

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June 15, 2019 at 06:00AM by CWC Confession time: I haven’t been to the gym in five days. The first time I skipped my usual 7 a.m. call time was because I was in an Olive Garden-induced salt hangover. The second was because it was my birthday (a given), and the third was because I was too tired-slash-hungover from my birthday celebrations. And now, nearly a week of “good excuses” later, here we are. Experts have already told us that you start to lose the mental motivation to get moving after only two skipped workouts. So the longer you go without hitting the weights, the harder it is to get back to them, which about sums up how I personally feel right now. But as I laid in bed this morning, ignoring my alarm and letting a 38 dollar fitness class go completely to waste, I got to wondering: If my brain was already feeling the fallout from so many skipped gym days, how long would it take for my body to catch up? ad_intervals[‘399921_div-gpt-ad-9261280-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘399921_div-gpt-ad-9261280-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-9261280-3’);}); } }, 100); “Muscle strength will start to decrease after around three weeks, but it’s going to be affected by various factors. So it’s not the same for us all,” says FitHouse trainer Nina Marchione. Cue me breathing a big sigh of relief that my current gym hiatus won’t totally destroy the work I’ve put in for the last few months. “Your workouts may feel harder

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June 15, 2019 at 05:04AM by CWC Of all my insecurities (and I’ll admit there are a few), I’m most afraid that I have bad breath. If I do, no kind soul has mustered the tough love to tell me yet. And now—phew—they may never have to. A pal at work recently dished about the many tongue scraper benefits, including the Ayurvedic tool’s ability to banish bad breath with just a scrape of its blunt metal blade. Dentists, too, can’t stop raving about the gizmo. “Your tongue should be taken care of just like showering your body or shampooing your hair,” says New York City-based dentist Alex Rubinov, DDS. “Bacteria and debris accumulate on your tongue, gradually leading to bad breath and a negative impact on your body.” The C-curved metal edge rids the tongue of a fair amount of said bacteria and (full body shivers) “debris” that would otherwise end up in your digestive tract, and—potentially—make you sick, too. ad_intervals[‘400135_div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’] = setInterval(function () { if (ads_ready) { clearTimeout(ad_intervals[‘400135_div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’]); googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-7435403-3’);}); } }, 100); No longer: the tongue scraper will set you back a mere $3. Or, if you’re feeling especially thrifty and frugal, you can use the edge of a silver spoon instead. As for when to use it, Dr. Rubinov recommends whipping out the tool first thing before soldiering on with the rest of your oral hygiene routine. “I recommend scraping your tongue while you still have toothpaste on it to give you the antimicrobial effect, and to leave you

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