When Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, made her inaugural splash by announcing that working from home was no longer an option for Yahoo employees, a collective gasp was heard around the telecommuting world. Why, hadn't we learned that working parents, long-commuting consultants, and tech-savvy employees with good work ethics did better...

After cataclysmic events like the Boston bombing, there follows a conversation that debates the status of "normal"... what normal means in terms of conducting our daily business, getting ourselves across town, maybe signing up for the next marathon; even raising our kids....

Porn has gone officially mainstream.

No one whispers about it anymore. There's no need for dark theaters where furtive men skulk with guilt and damp handkerchiefs. Women need not giggle about Victorian novels with "dirty parts." Kids don't have to wait for Sex Ed, mom and dad, or that...

I spent the past weekend with a group of incredibly talented and funny people, many of whom are approaching mutually shared decade birthdays and girding to embrace life with a new set of numbers. It's not particularly relevant which decade is being broached; every decade birthday is a milestone, a...

My, it's been a wild ride on social media since the Oscars. Lots of the usual activity before and during, but it was after that things got really feral. It started with the predictable twit-fest either applauding or eviscerating host Seth MacFarlane, but ratcheted to the stratosphere when some idiot...

We are a country of people who like to get into each other's business. We love reality shows and gossip websites, and hold endless discussions of what people wear, who they're dating and why they haven't lost the baby weight. And beyond these more superficial pursuits, we've got friends and...

As we approach the Oscars with their coveted acknowledgement of the best in film, all bets are on Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg's Lincoln to win the lion's share of top prizes. But as that big budget feature makes the rounds as top contender with both audiences and critics, another...

There's been a lot of finger wagging, head shaking and righteous anger directed at Lance Armstrong for his career- and legacy-shattering hubris in lying about his doping, followed, somewhat predictably, by his act of contrition to the Queen Confessor, Oprah Winfrey, in a kind of mandated post-debacle epilogue for fallen...

I've been struck by the repeated themes of many of the conversations being had, online and off, since the recent spate of shootings culminating in the Newtown massacre, the second most deadly school shooting in America's history. It seems clear we've reached...

In the world of sensationalistic media -- print, online, TV, radio -- the general mandate is "nothing is off limits," ratings drive content, and the best in the business push, prod, prank, and punk with no concern for the object of their manipulation. But when a British nurse and mother...

The subject of parenting could possibly be the most discussed, debated, written about, studied, analyzed and frustrating practice in all of human experience. There's the obvious fact that without parenting we'd have no... well... people, so the focus on its important is a given. Even those who don't embrace the...

It was back during an earlier Middle Eastern conflict; I was sitting in a friend's living room, a man who identified himself as a "non-practicing Jew," and the subject came up. The war. He brought it up, profoundly stirred by what was going on; he diatribed (literally) for about 15...

In a move that was inevitable, some in the media have begun the predictable exercise of "false equivalency" in the matter of Petraeus, et al., raising the "feminist flag" in protest of Paula Broadwell's expansive, certainly panting, media coverage. The implication -- or outright assertion -- is that she's receiving...

"The steel seduced me... I was steadily pulled back in time and back in technology into the hot, dirty, primitive, ancient, exquisite world of the blacksmith."

When one thinks of blacksmiths, what's typically conjured is the image of crusty old fellas...

There are some who'll tell you that during this election, at this time in our country, the "social issue" of gay marriage is not important enough to trump issues of foreign policy and the economy. That despite the many human lives impacted by our legal unwillingness to let gay and...

As last-week campaigning ramps up to fever pitch, balanced precariously against the continuing impact of Hurricane Sandy and the attendant, and on-going, relief efforts. There is much discussion about where time and attention can most effectively be directed - by candidates, their surrogates, and their messages - but wherever it's...

It's bad enough they're destroying marriage as we know it, adopting and/or giving birth to children better served by life in "straight" families, inducing young Scouts to a homosexual lifestyle, and wreaking havoc on the feng shui of heretofore beige environs with...

In a story that's taking on heat and just a little concern for Democrats this close to a close election, newly-released emails discussing the when, why and, particularly, the who behind the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attack on the American embassy that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and four other Americans,...

It's difficult for any Decided Voter to be objective. Their candidate is their candidate and they will likely see his performance as stronger than his opponent's no matter what the actual outcome. At least that's conventional thinking.

That theory, however, was proven wrong after the first debate when Romney was...

"You will never, ever, ever know me."

Sing along, gents; this is between you and all your confused, reluctant, fence-sitting voters who still can't figure out which of you to vote for. Whoever they are. Those people who make very... slow... decisions. The Undecideds. Sounds like an Irish folk band.