With Halloween coming on strong, here’s some tips to help keep yourself organized and make the most of the craziness:

Photojojo offers some great tips on Halloween photography. Favorites: Take costume pics at dusk, before the light disappears and the sugar rush kicks in making clear shots impossible. Light the outside of your jack-o-lantern with […]

Today I posted an article on lifehack.org called “What to Do When It’s All Too Much”. We’ve been facing some difficult situations here, stuff that deeply affects the kids (which I’ll post about later when I can manage), and the post is my attempt to get down how I’m managing to keep up several writing […]

Leo at Zen Habits offers Eight Keys to a Happier Marriage and they’re really good (and applicable to any romantic relationship, not just marriage). A lot of the advice seems like common sense — communicate, be prepared to put work into your relationship, that sort of thing — but it’s surprising how many people I […]

Amy at MotherLoad describes how to make cool glass fridge magnets. I’ve actually been making these for years, and I can attest, they are way fun and really easy. I use silica glue instead of Modge Podge to stick the magnets and glass marbles together, but otherwise I follow the same directions she does. […]

Carrie Kirby of the blog Wise Bread shares some advice on responding to toy recalls with a little more rationality and less panic in How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Recall. The recent rash of toy recalls sucks, absolutely, but with a little knowledge and patience you can minimize your children’s risks […]

The Simple Dollar is a personal finance blog, but every Sunday they offer long, in-depth reviews of personal development books. This week, they reviewed The Read-Aloud Handbook, a book about (as you can probably guess) reading loud to your children. It looks like a fantastic book. Listen:
First, and this is the big one, […]