Happy New Year! Welcome to a new decade of your life.

We've entered the adolescent years of this century, still a bit wet behind the ears as a century goes, still shaking off the dust of a pretty horrendous first decade, but eager to get down to the business...

OK, diversity fans and PC police, here's the ultimate holiday greeting: you combine the world's four main holidays celebrated at year's end: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Ramadan, and you get "Christmahanukwanzaadan".

What's not to love about this greeting? It's inclusive! Depending upon which holiday you celebrate, you might choose...

As a child, I was afraid of the dark. I imagined all sorts of scary monsters lurking under my bed at night and saw frightening images in the shadows cast on my bedroom walls. Unconsciously, I think I must have taken some of those fears of the dark, basically the...

Last year, my family and I decided to ban presents at Christmas. Seriously, we'd all gotten so "done" on the whole gift-giving thing, we found it had lost all meaning. The Christmas morning unwrapping activity had become a predictable chore, with too much wrapping paper and ribbon and too many...

Black Friday: There must be something really exhilarating about getting up at 3 AM on the day after Thanksgiving, in order to get a parking spot at the local Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Target, Best Buy, Old Navy, JC Penny, Staples, Toys R Us, Sam's Club, Sears or Walgreens.

There must...

This Thanksgiving, when you think about all the things you're grateful for, don't forget to include the person you've been hanging out with, 24/7, for your entire life.

You know the one I'm speaking of. It's the one who's gotten you this far, the one who's carried you over...

"If we'd had women around the table, there would have been no war; women think long and hard before they send their children out to kill other people's children."
Haris Silajdzic, former Prime Minister of Bosnia

The last two weeks I've been writing about peace, what with President...

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

Last week, I wrote a column suggesting...

Now that just about the entire world has weighed in on whether or not President Obama deserves to win the Nobel Peace Prize, the fact remains: he was awarded the prize.

What's with all the petty chipping and harping about his worthiness? Even those on the left are taking shots....

Thanks to our Living page editor, Alana B. Elias Kornfeld's post, in which she credits Dr. Christiane Northrup for renaming Breast Cancer Awareness Month to Breast Health Month. I like the reframe! After all, isn't that what we're focused on? Let's keep those "girls" healthy!

It's almost October and that means Breast Cancer Awareness Month is here. Since everyone is at risk, including men, here are some important breast cancer awareness facts:

Every 13 minutes, a woman dies of breast cancer in the U.S. Women of all ages from 15-99 are at risk for developing...

"It's important to realize that I was actually black before the election."

- Barack Obama

The discourse in America is heating up. We are becoming a nation of Howard Beales' "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore". What is at the bottom of all...

Peace is every step
-- Thich Nhat Hanh

Did you know that Monday, September 21st is International Peace Day? I didn't, I until I looked up and saw it printed on my wall calendar today. Have I been that tuned out for the past 10 years? Or have...

Can you imagine yourself as a really, really old person? I'm talking really old, like 100 years or beyond? In fact it's not only possible you could hit the century mark, your chances are actually increasing.

According to the Foundation For Health In Aging, if you were born...

Does life seem weirder and crazier than normal these days? Do you feel like you've fallen down a rabbit hole or gotten sucked into the twilight zone? It's not you, I promise. It's because of August, a month no one takes seriously, yet quite possibly is the most dangerous month...

For the past six years, the daily headlines have been dominated by the war in Iraq and the political and social turmoil and widespread violence among Iraqi sectarian groups. Relatively removed from the reality of the war, Americans' attention has been primarily concerned with the number of deaths and injuries...

Once in a great while, there are moments worth watching on network television. Usually I miss them, since I'm not much of a TV fan. However, thanks to social networking and connectivity with readers here on the HuffPo, it seems I'm never very far out of the loop. My thanks...

I know this sounds like a really "heavy" subject to be bringing up, especially now, in the middle of summer, when everybody just wants to escape the heat and curl up with a romance novel at the beach, or go to the mountains, pitch a tent, drop a fishing line...

Who knows the truth about what really killed Michael Jackson? Much has been written about his strange life and the mystery surrounding his equally puzzling death. No doubt, there will be mountains more coverage of this man who was an American original in the days to come as the feeding...

Writing my doctoral dissertation on "The Future of Feminism: Where Do We Go From Here?" in 1995, I never imagined the answer to that question would be found in the streets of Tehran. Iranian women have hit the streets in protest, no longer willing to stifle their demands for reform...