What’s Wrong With Me This Month

A Look at Some May Women’s Magazines

I cannot believe May is nearly halfway over. Where does the time go? Why does it have to go so fast? And as one moves closer to summer things seems to accelerate.

Cooking 1892 Style

Here is my attempt to make a recipe for Welch Cheese Cakes found in the December 1892 issue of The Housewife. Following is the recipe as it appeared in the magazine.

Peeking Into The Past – December 1892

It’s the end of 1892.  Benjamin Harrison is President, General Electric and Abercrombie and Fitch have just been established.  The big story of the year was about a woman named Lizzie Borden who took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks

What’s Wrong With Me This Month

A Look at Some April Women’s Magazines

Women’s magazines are all about advice. They give us advice on makeup, advice on fitness, advice on dieting, advice on clothes and advice on sex with men (not so much sex with women). This month I’d like to see what I can learn about sex with men from all of the women’s magazines.

Peeking Into The Past- June 1951

I love to read old magazines. To me old magazines are like a time machine. Paging through them I am instantly transported back to whatever year the magazine is dated. I have a small collection of older magazines and from time to time I’d like to share with the weBEgirls readers

What’s Wrong with Me This Month?

A Look at Some March Women’s Magazines

I find myself on occasion interested in celebrities. If I’m getting my hair done I’m much more likely to read the salon’s copies of Us Weekly or In Touch than the copy of The New Yorker I brought with from home

What’s Your Title?

At the beginning of the year I went online to the New York Botanical Garden website to buy tickets for their Holiday Train show. I placed an order for two adult and two children’s tickets and was forwarded to the Reservation Information page where I could put in my details to purchase the tickets.

What’s Wrong With Me This Month

A Look at Some February Women’s Magazines

Many people make resolutions in January. By the time February rolls around, most of us have broken our resolutions – ice cream has snuck its way back into our freezer, workouts have stopped

Toss and Ditch

This may come as a shock, but women do break up with men. According to MensHealth.com, 26% of women broke up because of too many arguments/conflicts, 18% said there was no chemistry, another 14% said they found a better guy, 9% percent said he wasn’t husband material and 3% said he was lousy in bed. For most of us it only takes days to decide to dump him, but some would have us believing that none of this is true…

What’s Right With Me This Month

A Look at Some January Womens Magazines

It’s January! Happy 2012! If you are a regular reader of this column you might notice that I have changed the title from “What’s Wrong” to “What’s Right”

Diversions: Counted Cross Stitching

I am a cross stitcher. There, I said it. I am a proud cross stitcher. There, I said it with more feeling. According to Time Wasters, the bible of the craft industry, cross stitchers make up one out of every 145,672 people of the world population.

What’s Wrong With Me This Month

A Look at Some December Women’s Magazines

December is a lovely month. Fighting over two dollar waffle irons (actually that’s November), screaming at the person who cut in front of you in the line to see Santa, killing a tree