WARNING: This blog post contains major plot spoilers. If you have not seen Side Effects, read on at your own discretion.

At the start of my college career, I toyed with the idea of attending film school in hopes that I would become a great director one day. From an...

"I wish my partner were as playful with me as he is with our dog," I thought to myself one evening as we both were lying in bed watching television. During a commercial, my husband, Chad, spontaneously lept up and maneuvered himself so that he could nuzzle his nose up...

If I listen closely, I can still hear my seventh grade teacher Sister Dorothy telling my class the story of how a group of men were about to punish a woman who committed adultery. Jesus intervened by saying, he who is without sin may cast the first stone.

Several hundred...

After 102 years the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is reconsidering its policy banning gay scouts and scout leaders from the organization. Deron Smith, a spokesman for the BSA, said, "While we'll carefully consider this resolution, there are no plans to change this policy. We do not believe that the...

Why the hell did I go to medical school?

That's the question I asked myself after reading the New York Times this weekend. On the front page of the Sunday Review there was an article entitled "Let's (Not) Get Physicals," in which Elisabeth Rosenthal listed the pointless and...