I was reluctant to try wax melts for a long time for one very practical reason: cleaning out the melter sounded annoying and cumbersome. Dried wax is hard to scrape out, and if you like switching fragrances, leftover wax can easily mingle with the next scent. I liked the idea of wax melts. I did not like the idea of chiseling hardened wax out of tiny ceramic dishes. That all changed when I discovered wax melters with silicone liners. I started with a higher-end melter that ha

It started, as many questionable decisions do, with me trying to restore balance to the household. We got Moxie, or Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier, a year before our son Alex was born. Moxie is now 11, Alex is 10, and while they have always gotten along perfectly well, theirs has never exactly been one of those heartwarming boy and his dog stories. As Alex got older, he became increasingly unimpressed by Moxie’s barking, her general dog smell and, as he put it, the fact that dog