I've never been a particularly athletic person, so staying fit has always been a challenge. In elementary school, I despised P.E. The happiest week of my school life was when I was recovering from walking pneumonia and was able to sit out on the benches for two full weeks spraying...

I hate to fly. Well, more accurately, I hate the idea of being 30,000 feet in the air. But it wasn't always that way. I was admittedly a latecomer to the game of aviation. I took my first uneventful flight at the age of 23 to move from Texas to...

I was never a dog person. They always reminded me of rabid game show contestants, their enthusiasm overshooting any given situation, be it a car, a refrigerator or a perfect stranger.

Then came Holly.

As Rhianna would say, we fell in love in a hopeless place. Namely, the local animal...

It's the end of summer. While a lot of stay-at-home parents of school-aged children are high-fiving as the bus pulls away, I find myself in the glum minority. I hate the beginning of school. Mainly, I just know I'm really going to miss my kid.

I am in the...

It happened a few weeks ago when my seven-year-old daughter saw the 3D movie trailer for Katy Perry: Part of Me and instinctively dug into my arm as if to alert me to an approaching unicorn. And from the preview of the confection-laden mayhem, there, indeed, may have...

It happens fairly frequently. I'm at a coffee shop, and a woman I know comes up, says hello and we begin to exchange pleasantries. She's nice enough, but I find myself quickly trying to end the conversation.

Mostly, because I don't know who the f--- she is.

As...

"Why do you have two frozen corn dogs on your eyes?" asks my husband.

It's a fair question. I was trying to relieve the swelling from crying the night before. My 16-year-old cat, Mangia, had died unexpectedly which in many ways is like saying Christmas came without...

So what are kids clamoring for this year? I asked savvy consumer and my daughter, 6-year-old, Scarlett, to help us grown-ups navigate the corporate noise (Is Let's Rock Elmo the must have? Are Zhu Zhus a snooze?) and get the low down what a girl wants,...

I am making plans to go home for the holidays. And like many of you, I will be facing a dearth of my personal creature comforts. Specifically, my parents live in a small, rural Texas town where Internet coverage is almost as spotty as your chance of getting a double...

Considering quitting Facebook? Here's what happens when you do.

Forget relationship status updates or enviable vacation photos. If you really want to create a buzz on Facebook, deactivate your account.

That's what happened to me this summer when I pulled the plug. And apparently, I was just in time. Now...