Change Can Be Beautiful

Well, I’m done with another issue. I’m still struck by all the change that’s going on in O-land. Lots more advice dispensed–I didn’t even get into the advice panel, style q&a, beauty q&a, health/food advice, and relationship questions. It’s as if all we want now are the answers to life’s problems. [...]

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Oprah’s Figured Out Beauty

I’ll be interested to see how Oprah’s “What I Know For Sure” columns vary when the theme of the issue is the same.  Will it be a repeat?  Will her views change over time?  We’ll find out when I go backwards to look at the other beauty issue.
This time though, she thinks she’s figured out [...]

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Breathing Over the Falls

The June 2008 “Breathing Space” picture is of Iguazu Falls, Argentina. It’s a shot of the top of the falls, so you see the water at the top, trees around the banks, and plenty of clouds in the sky. You even get a rainbow effect if you look at the falls.
The idea of [...]

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A Small Beauty Revolution

Even though O Magazine is still themed, the table of contents doesn’t distinguish what parts of the magazine are geared toward this “Beauty Revolution” theme. In the past, the contents pages were color-coded. The themed articles were a different color than the general articles. Now the theme is a “special” and it [...]

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O, to Buy!

Now that the economy’s heading south again, I wonder if The O List feature will change at all. Actually, I can look through other issues and see if it did during the Internet bust. Though I think this time is different–at least with the last bust, you could get equity out of your [...]

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SHEDding Your Space

The June 2008 issue has an article from organizing guru Julie Morgenstern. She talks about a system she developed to help people who are going through transitions. Her own transition came about after she divorced at age 29 and became a single mother. She had been in theater, but after the divorce, [...]

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Own the Power over Your Money

Suze Orman’s financial column in the June 2008 issue also has a few questions that don’t really apply to me and my money issues (which basically is, no money coming in right now), but the focus of her column is about feeling like you can control your financial destiny, which is important.
The question that leads [...]

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You Deserve Better

Sorry it’s been a while.  In planning out this project and trying to make it fit in with the rest of my life (other blog, other writing projects, family, household work), I tend to forget how long the writing process actually takes.  Over the last few days I had some deadlines I had to meet, [...]

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A Little Magazine Beautification

Whoa!  This magazine has changed since the last issue I read….granted, I’m still reading a lot of the earlier days, but still.  The calendar is gone, there are a lot more advice columnists, there’s a lot of synergy among media properties (log on to oprah.com and tell us how this story affected you!), and who [...]

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Beauty on Tap

Well, in the last several weeks I’ve been able to use O Magazine to help me out with a personal issue I’ve been having. Although that didn’t really get me much farther in the count of “how many magazines I have read,” it did get me halfway through a couple more issues. More [...]

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