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Ramshackle Glam’s 6 Most-Read Posts Of 2019

The family ornament we chose to sum up 2019

Well. THAT was a year.

I’m ready to be boring for awhile, please and thanks. Because 2019 was a lot of things – oh god, so many things; all the things – but a snoozefest it was not. I published a bookthat resulted in the most emotionally intimate and exhausting book tour of my life. I wrote two more that’ll be out next year (you can preorder one of them now), and put my seventh (!!!) into contract. I started a new marketing side-hustle, and...

Living Room Reveal!

I have been working my little tucchus off these last couple of weeks getting the new place in order, and I can’t wait any longer: I need to start doing some room reveals, even if they’re not perfect-perfect. (Which, of course, nothing ever is – especially in a house with oh god, so many children and cats and pillows that will not stay in the spot where I put them.)

The extent to which our living room – as distinct from the family room, where we keep the TV and thus my offspring – came...

An Instant Pot Trial By Fire

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I have been dying for an Instant Pot. But only because everyone on the Internets told me I should be dying for an Instant Pot; I didn’t even know what these thingsdo, exactly. Aren’t they just…crockpots? …Sort of?

Apparently Instant Pots cook meals in a fraction of the time you’d expect…but, as I completely do not understand the science behind pressure-cooking, it is very hard for me to believe that a meal that should ordinarily take eight hours to cook can take half an hour. That’...

A Holiday Bottle Spell For Your BFFs

Tarot contributor Jessica creates a spell for you and your best friends to celebrate each other and remind you that grand, lifelong love comes in all forms.

Three ladies, glasses raised, dancing together…You don’t need me to tell you that there’s a party going on here. The Three of Cups is a picture of celebration, of communion. This is a card about sharing joy with friends.

Let’s go a little bit deeper. Cups are the suit of emotion, and in Tarot, groups of three represent a firm foundation....

The Ramshackle Glam Gift Guide For Guys

All together, now: Shopping for guy gifts is theworst. Whiskey cubes! Cuff links! Tiny “Zen” boxes of dirt that one must theoretically groom, for calmness or something. It’s just the same stuff, over and over and over, and if the men in your life are anything like the men in mine, they are zero help (“What do you want for Christmas?” “Oh, you know…whatever.”).

This stuff? Is not the same stuff.

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What I’ve Been Reading Lately

I’ve gotten a lot of questions about whether the effects of the retreat I went on in September “lasted.” It was an expensive trip, and for me to opt out of my entire life for a full week required about as much insane hoop-jumping as you can imagine…but if I had to do it all over again, the answer to “would I?” is “absolutely.”

I’m not meditating every day anymore. I’m not using all of the “tools” that they gave me (although I am using some). But there was one very fundamental takeaway I got...

The Ramshackle Glam BFF Holiday Gift Guide

When I first started blogging – during the Wild West years – it was a time when bloggers were virtuallyshoweredwith swag. Everything from champagne to deodorant arrived on my doorstep – unsolicited – on the regular, and every time my fellow blogger friends and I attended an “event”, we were sent off with bags overflowing with moisturizers and chocolates and sunglasses and what have you. See, brands were still trying to figure out how to harness this newfangled thing called “social media,”...

How To Survive Holiday Travel With Children

How to make the holidays more stressful? Just add long car rides, cross-country flights, and a few underslept kids! Our sleep expert Mahaley tells us how to navigate the mess with your sanity (relatively) intact.

By the time my daughter was two, we had taken 21 flights with her. (Yes, you read that right.) With the holidays in full swing, I get asked how to survive all the travel and festivities with a young child – so here are my best tips and strategies:

1.When possible, give your child...

The Ramshackle Glam Gift Guide For Kids (That Parents Won’t Hate)

I can be very Grinchy when it comes to my kids’ toys. It’s one of those “Well, when I was a kid…” things – because when I was a kid, you know what I had? A cabinet for my toys, and exactly the number of toys that could fit into that cabinet. Maybe it was the fact that we lived in a small apartment or maybe my parents were just Grinchy, too, but I’m totally of the school of thought that when it comes to toys, less is more. You spend more time with each one; you get more creative with how you...

#Micdrop (a.k.a. My Move To Malibu)

You and me both, dude.

I think that what happened over the weekend was that I fell into a fugue state, or perhaps a wormhole wherein the space/time continuum as we know it ceased to exist, thereby allowing the hours in each day to expand in infinite directions. Because that is the only reasonable explanation I have for what just transpired over the course of my move from the Valley to Malibu, which was that I DESTROYED IT.

And by “it” I mean “life.”

I KILLED IT DEAD.

Here is a sampling...