It's not the sex I worry about. Well I do, but not for the reasons you think. It is the heart I worry about and the brain. You learn alot about love and relationships in your first teen experiences. You learn things that stick with you for the rest of...

44% of football fans are now women. I proudly count myself among this group. Recently, a friend of mine said, "I refuse to watch millionaires chase a ball around." So I tried to explain why I watch. I tried to how I fell in love with game the...

Recently, in the spirit of the National Novel Writing Month movement, I assigned to myself the task of writing 500 words a day instead of the 1,666.66 words per day a person would need to reach 50,000 for NaNoWriMo's winner's circle. I wanted a more sustainable practice; I...

Maybe you have had this experience. Some guy you went to high school with contacts you on Facebook. You see now how handsome he is, his pretty wife and awesome dog. You remember liking talking to him a lot in school, but he never asked you out, and you never...

Year-round school is an idea that gets bandied about quite often. Discussion centers on closing the achievement gap and letting our school calendar move away from its agrarian past. When The Huffington Post put out a call for ideas on how to spark job creation and encourage training...

Iyanla Vanzant said in an Oprah Lifeclass that you are never angry or upset for the reason you think you are. This lesson hit hard this week when I wasn't invited to a gathering of friends, and my ex was. At first, I was pissed. I thought about...

When Why Men Love Fake Boobies? first popped up in my blog reader, I wasn't sure I wanted to click on it. I imagined the grainy web cam photos of fake breasts on some barely legal girl that populate spam websites. But I clicked anyway. Instead of...

Vibrators, it seems, are everywhere. It started out with coy references on Sex in the City. Now there is an entire movie, Hysteria, devoted to their invention and yesterday my Tweet Deck exploded with links to articles about grocery stores carrying pleasure devices and...

Thanks to the internet, many creative endeavors surface and circulate. Recently, a friend shared with me Strindberg & Helium, an animated series featuring the morose philosopher, August Strindberg, with his unlikely companion, Helium, a floating pink balloon on a mission to care for and cheer up the dead...

A friend in USA archery public relations just posted, "it's official, archers are the new vampires" thanks to The Hunger Games film and book series. My own love affair, or well addiction, to archery didn't begin with Katniss though. It began when my daughter asked for...

It's only hair. That's what I told myself when I saw the picture of my 12 year old with dyed red hair. Not highlights or strips, but an all over wash. My ex let her dye her hair. A week before my remarriage.

It's not the hair that bothers...

Is there such thing as a peaceful divorce? Anyone involved with the process of divorce looks at that and thinks no way, not possible. There is nothing truly peaceful about taking your life (whether it's your choice or not) and halving it. But Ashley Davis Bush offers six...

When Ed Housewright wrote his piece on reclaiming his last name from his ex-wife titled, Can I Please Have My Name Back?, I actually spoke out loud to the computer, saying, yes, yes, you can. But then I stopped; who would I give my name back to? And...

Let me begin with this disclaimer: I love Facebook. I really do. I like keeping up with people from high school; I love seeing baby pictures and Christmas trees and trips to the Grand Canyon. I even like the sappy inspirational quotations and platitudes people post every day. But Facebook...