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One of the regular columnists in the Daytona Beach News-Journal wrote a column a while back about how much he likes hats - he really likes hats. The problem, he says, is that his daughter tells him he looks old when he wears a hat. That is an opinion people hear time and again. You look old wearing that, listening to that, doing that. What's amusing to this senior is that when you reach my...

~{}~ you were not much of a real friend the stitches of the seam are torn you were no friend at all to me the black dress that I’ll wear to mourn * and for memories of what could have been I find no future there nothing left to wear but naked lies * how you thought the truth could be so bend how you thought that you could lie to me it was something I had never seen now I know to...

Just got back from Washington D.C. yesterday where I got to see my daughter, Sarah Muehlbauer, standing next to her dress and video which are on display in the S. Dillon Ripley Gallery of the SMITHSONIAN!!!!! Pardon the exclamation points, I'm so incredibly thrilled for her! I wrote a while ago about her winning the Green Light Awards grand prize (sponsored by Volkswagen) in "The $20,000 dress."...

If you live in Atlanta and are getting married soon you may be nervous about finding that perfect wedding dress. There are several ways to look through all the wedding dresses in Atlanta to find the right one for you. No matter what your budget is you can find a designer wedding dress to suit your needs as you grace the aisle on that perfect day.Don’t expect to find the perfect designer dress...

There are plenty of phone calls you get from your kids over the years that count as "surprises." Some of them are good surprises, some of them are awful, and a few just rock you back on your heels and make you go "WOW!!!!" The phone call from my art student daughter, Sarah Muehlbauer, last week telling me that she'd just won $20,000 in an art competition sponsored by Volkswagen of America was...

You might wonder what there is about those Dress up Games that your daughter keeps talking about. You might dismiss them as mother versions of the old fashioned dress up games that you used to play with your mother’s clothes wedding dresses. It’s a bit like that, but dues to the nature of Internet, it’s become a world wide sensation. Just what are those Dress Up Games? The best way...

I'm nearly at the halfway point by this morning, and by yesterday afternoon I was about ready to kill for a bag of M&Ms. With a week to go before my daughter's wedding, it's finally crunch time to try to lose that dress size I've been planning to lose since the engagement was announced last Christmas. And for me, dieting and weight loss has always been an "all or nothing" event. So for the...

Nearly every bride dreams of a fairytale wedding. This is the day many women have fantasized about since they were little girls. At the center of the idyllic, picture perfect wedding is a breathtakingly elegant wedding dress.Selecting a bridal gown is one of the most important parts of the entire wedding planning process. But amid the hectic frenzy of organizing a wedding, it can be hard to find...

I can't say I've ever owned a "long" dress other than my wedding dress thirty years ago, and let's face it, you can only wear that one once. However, shopping was definitely in order when some friends folded me into their plans to attend the annual Viennese Ball at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire a few weeks ago. I didn't know quite what to expect, other than there would be a lot of...