Excited to abduct my grandmother this morning, in hopes of whisking her off to the National Cemetery in Riverside where my grandfather and aunt lay, I set out with gifts for the wife of the vet in hand.

Unfortunately, she wasn't there when I arrived. There was no flag...

Sitting in my off-site Starbuck's office this morning, just settling into a writing rhythm when a random man approached my table to ask whether he could take me out sometime.

Do I look like fast food, guy?

When I responded that I have a boyfriend, he asked whether he...

It's not that his ideas aren't inspiring, his visionary perspective uplifting, his outlook refreshing. It's that Obama has yet to deliver on a large number of his promises to the people of the United States and the world.

The trouble is, in awarding this prize to the President in...

When you can't even afford to keep criminals who deserve to be in jail housed, the notion of wasting hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on a high-profile extradition such as the Polanski return from Zurich is ludicrous. Can you imagine wasting this money when so many of our children...

So, I'm reading this article advising women how to avoid wrinkles around their mouths. Said feature suggests that we avoid drinking from straws at all costs lest we increase the incidence of fine lines around the mouth.

When this morning's makeup session seemed unable to hide the first evidence...

The shaming of the female form took on a whole new face when the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control labeled the nymph replica of a late 1880's French Art Nouveau image featured on Cycles Gladiator wines from California's Hahn family an offensive image of "a person posed in an immoral or...

This morning, Faith Lab published a compelling query concerning the fact that abstinence-only requirements may actually push young people into marriage before they're ready, simply because they feel less guilty about divorce than they do sex outside of marriage.

In a society like ours, with over 50% of couples...

Postpartum Fitness Made Easy

Especially during the sleep-deprived first weeks after delivery, exercising may be the furthest thing from your mind. However, there are some simple moves you can start making as soon as your body feels up to it that can make all the difference in rebounding your body...

A few weeks ago, I was approached by Aaron Kemmer to review his new book about maximizing one's penile health. As an advocate for positive sexual communication and healthy approaches to issues of a bodily and sexual nature, I happily agreed.

My reaction to its straightforward illustrations pertaining to...

Britain's NIH has hordes of nay-saying conservatives up in arms over its recently published "Pleasure" paper which offers teens and young adults advice by which they might achieve a more fulfilling sex life.

The quote "an orgasm a day keeps the doctor away" had half the medical community up...

Men Love Bitches screams the cover of a popular book from the 'featured' table at Barnes & Noble, as I plunge toward the only 'sure thang' restroom in a popular Orange County strip mall, seeing red all of a sudden.

Who's ridiculous idea is this? Any man worth his salt...

When the front page of the Orange County Register listed an article concerning cutbacks in the prison system which will ultimately result in fewer sentences being carried out and more instances of probation and parole, alongside one about a woman badly beaten by the same man who'd just been paroled...

I am at once honored and thrilled that the sacrifices and courage of the soldiers who fought through North Africa, into Italy, through circumstances we can scarcely imagine, to give us a life in which m mortgage crises and a faltering economy are the biggest concerns for most of us...

The following was written moments ago, in response to a friend who shared tales of standing in front of an abortion clinic for several days, only to observe that the majority of those attaining abortions were high school aged girls who 'just wanted to get rid of it'. I do...

A Monsanto ad really set me off with their "sustainable agriculture" full pager in the New York Times last week.

How about answering the Earth's plea to quit procreating not with genetically altered means of mass production, but with viable birth and population control methods? Why focus funds on...

As Notre Dame came under fire last week for its plans to bestow an honorary doctorate on President Obama, an eight term tradition at the increasingly liberal Catholic campus, a disgruntled Pat Buchanan accused Notre Dame of saying that "his policies and programs that bring death to more than a...

Funny that women in France over the age of 50 have more sex than they did at age 35, while a full third of American women in their 50's have no sex at all. Yup - none. Is it true that, as Lauren Bacall claimed "when a woman reaches 26...

Since when did the female form become so objectified that the notion of viewing it in a bra became pornographic?

When prosecutors, like George Skumaniack of Pennsylvania, waste taxpayer dollars to uphold the patriarchal and outdated notion that exposure of flesh lends itself to sexual deviancy, violence and other...

Birth Choice Health Clinics, a staunch supporter of abstinence-only education for young women seeking sex education and abortion options within the Orange County area, is slated to receive the reallocation of funds ripped from Planned Parenthood by the Orange County supervisors a few weeks ago.

The fact that the religious...

Dear Sir,

Pulling the plug on funding to Planned Parenthood which, in addition to providing abortion services to women who choose to do so, provides affordable contraceptive options for the uninsured and educates about the risk of STD's and unprotected sexual activity, is about the most blatantly arrogant shirking...