Megan Rosker

I'm not going to paint one of those sappy portraits of play gone by. We all know by now that most of us played more freely than our kids do today. Seldom do we drive down a street and see kids wildly riding bikes or playgrounds crowded with children who...

Few of us think much of pulling up to the playground at the end of the day, swinging open the car doors and letting loose the wild children in the back seat.

But what happens on the playground -- the social, emotional and physical development, as well as the old...

If you live along the three-kilometer route Chris Gregory takes to work every day, you may have seen him galloping on his hobby horse, skipping down the sidewalk or playing leap frog with a friend. In fact, for the entire month of March, Mr. Gregory has decided to commute to...

Cynthia Leive, editor-in-chief of Glamour, has decided to take a stand against the impingement of obsessive retouching in the world of beauty and fashion. Her magazine has pledged that it won't be putting models on a digital diet or enhancing their curves. Remove pimples? Probably. Lightening shadows or...

On Oscar night, Natalie Portman went vintage. Standing on the red carpet she looked stunning in a classic fifties red and black polka dot, strapless, Dior dress. The dress is from Rare Vintage on 57th street in New York City and is an actual 1954 spring couture dress. Ms. Portman...

When I was a little girl I would sneak into my parent's bedroom in mid afternoon, walk quietly across the carpet to the top drawer of my mother's dresser and pull hard (it was an old dresser).
Inside there was treasure -- a world of women's undergarments about...

Just before Christmas, the New York Times published a piece titled, "If Moms Can't Find it, They Invent It." About the time I ran across this piece, a friend and colleague of mine had recently been discussing the ups and downs of women in business, especially moms. It...