Now that I'm over 30...okay 35, okay 40, if you must know, I'm learning all about the horrors of ageism. And never is that more rampant than at the local mall. You can feel it when you enter certain stores--stores catering to a YOUNGER clientelle. Sales clerks ignore you. They...

From the moment she could talk, my daughter, Olivia, questioned everything.

When she was four, she angrily hurled her fairy tale book at the wall because Cinderella made no sense. Olivia explained that if everything returned to normal at midnight, then why is that glass slipper still around?

Question: Why has Tiger Woods never shaved his head?
Answer: Because that's where the bar code is hidden.

Tiger Woods is a consumer product. And like Coke and KFC, the recipe was a closely guarded secret. But now, everyone's had a look at the real ingredients, and oh, the...

When I met the woman who would eventually become my mother-in-law, she didn't smile or say hello or talk to me. She wouldn't even look at me.

I awkwardly stuck out my hand. "Hello Magdalen." Minutes earlier, Larry had warned me not to call her Mrs. Bleidner. "She thinks...