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What are the things that make you feel like the best version of you? I was thinking about this today, because one of my goals this week is to do the things that serve me in a positive way, and I started by doing my hair this morning. It’s amazing what getting my mop out of a messy bun does for my mood. Fun-buns are easy, and easy can be gloriously good, but sometimes Fun-buns make me feel disheveled, so when I take the time and make the effort to style my hair, I feel better and more capable. Other...

Normally, Tabs goes on patrol first thing on Sunday morning, but today was the first official meeting of the Novato Cat Gardeners Club. Tabs was not deterred by the fact that there are currently only two members, one of which is technically a small human who likes to think of herself as a cat. On today’s agenda, which was not printed in Comic Sans: pick the ripe cherry tomatoes. Now, is this easy to do with paws? No, but Tabs relishes the challenge. The members also discussed yellow versus red tomatoes, as well as the benefits of singing to your...

More with the ideas! —-If you haven’t heard, there’s a Sephora VIB sale in November, so I’m highlighting some of my favorite makeup that you can find at Sephora this week. I’m hell-and-gone addicted to this deep-repair shampoo and conditioner (they’re $25 each) from IGK Bad & Bougie. The first day I took my hair out into the world after using Bad & Bougie…which, I’m sorry. Every time I see that name I feel like I’m talking about a poodle that needs to be walked. Anyway! I ran into my HIIT instructor while running errands, and she said the nicest...

Diagrams of neural activity in the hippocampus, recorded from a mouse as it learned about a new environment. Colors correspond to unique locations within the new space. Over time and continued exposure to the arena, the mouse forms stable memories by recruiting teams of neurons to encode for the location. Credit: CaltechVia Medical Xpress:  How memories form and fade Paper: Persistence of neuronal representations through time and damage in the hippocampus. (Science - paywalled; Preprint: bioRxiv - PDF)

Nope, I’m not mad about it! MAC’s latest launch of makeup primers is…unsurprisingly, all about primer, and yeah, it’s one of those releases comprised of re-promoted stuff (same products, new boxes). Of course, there will be the usual hemming and hawing about this, but since almost all of the items in Makeup Ready Skin are things I’ve used and loved for years, I repeat: I’m not mad about it. There are things in this release that deserve the extra attention. Also, I’m aware that there are peeps out there in Makeup Land who don’t see the point of primers. I...