Life In Pleasantville
Food, Travel, Life
As January comes to a close, the challenge is to maintain our steam for 2017’s goals and carry a new year’s enthusiasm into the next months. Making choices that help us lead healthier, simpler, and happier lives goes a long way towards staying enthusiastic when all we want to do is flop on the couch under a …
Nowhere but in Pleasantville will you find a more mixed bag (of nuts) than the people who write here and who contribute crush-worthy list items like alcohol, bendy, tasty men, and paraphernalia for your standard Walking Dead obsession. We like to offer variety. Laureen Farnam – We have been revelling in a really beautiful extended Fall here in …
We’re nothing if not a covetous bunch around here, but we’re mostly reasonable about it. You don’t see us asking for private jets to take us around the world, or a cure for wrinkles, or access to cheese that doesn’t cost the same as a small mortgage payment. What we like to share is attainable for a …
This week on Crush and Covet, we’re inviting you to take a seat, pour a drink — whatever you choose, we’re not judgy — and sit back to enjoy a good, wholesome, steamy, full-of-secrets (WAIT! Scratch wholesome.) family drama. It’s a long weekend in Canada, so take some time to get outside and relax. Jeni …
Let’s talk about Mother’s Day. It’s the one day — ONE DAY, FAMILY! — where all we want is not to pick up the socks you wore during last week’s trail run, or find mouldy food containers at the bottom of a school bag, or discover your hey-this-needs-washing-mom sports jock on top of the clean bras we …
Crush: a brief but intense infatuation for someone (or something), especially someone (or something) unattainable or inappropriate. The difference between that definition and everything crush worthy we share in our Crush and Covet section is that none of our loves are unattainable and they’ll never be inappropriate. Probably. Sometimes. Okay, there will definitely be a fair amount of …
