I grew up on the East Coast, so I grew up eating steamed crabs.  Blue crabs in particular (which turn orange when steamed) are the best crabs there are…but it can be difficult to convince [...]

This year, I learned to make love.  I realize that’s an odd thing to hear from the owner of a website devoted to all things sexy and romantic, so I’ll allay your fears by telling [...]

When it comes to jeans, everyone has fit issues…or so I discovered in a highly unscientific pool of people I know.  My size 0 personal trainer revealed that most jeans cut across her “fat place” [...]

Truth and tact is a tricky one.  I’m not a fan of telling everything I know.  However, there are those amongst us who live for prying open Pandora’s Box with a tire iron and will [...]

It took me almost 25 years to go visit my grandfather’s grave.  Being neither religiously inclined nor a cemetery visitor, I say goodbye to people I love and remember them in my heart.   But [...]

I got out and walked back toward the sleek mass of metal and money.  The problem was obvious soon enough—the left rear tire was flat.  Actually, it was nearly shredded.  You get that sometimes; sharp [...]

I had a boyfriend once whose mother, when she was charmed by his bad behavior, would roll her eyes and tell me how patient I was.  But he was not my boyfriend for very long, [...]

First, you have to be interested enough to spend the time.  This is true if any endeavor that pays back joy for discipline:  drawing, playing guitar, taking pictures, dancing, singing, tennis, gardening.  It has to [...]

Chocolate is my kryptonite…well, I have to stop thinking about it as kryptonite. No one is about to give me license to carry a feed bag of M&Ms around my neck, but I’ve read lately [...]

Academics have for over 100 years measured intelligence using IQ tests, but the Flynn Effect they’ve found doesn’t necessarily mean we are more intelligent than our grandparents. We may just be better at taking tests. [...]

Just got dumped? Here are some ideas —Send a stripper-gram to their next board meeting —Order the most expensive bottle of champagne and meal at the last dinner you have together —Fill their shampoo bottle [...]

There was a time not so long ago when the moviegoing experience was a big deal. It was an event. Viewers entered ornate, cavernous movie palaces and watched, along with an audience of thousands, the [...]