Melanie Gorman

Hearing Kirk Cameron on CNN's Piers Morgan's show discussing his beliefs that homosexuality is "unnatural" "detrimental" and "ultimately destructive" is disappointing to say the least. Watching your teen idol fall from grace is never easy. As one friend told me on Twitter, "@melanie360 take the Kirk...

In all the years that we have been saying to clients, "Intentions equal results," this past week was the first time the concept of "setting intentions" really seemed to resonate with people. Instead of setting resolutions, sites like Facebook were ablaze with people setting their intentions for the...

Jerry Sandusky's arraignment on 40 criminal counts, including indictment on dozens of counts of child sexual abuse has rocked the sports world and the Penn State community. Yet as shocking as the news out of Happy Valley is, the most horrific part is not just what happened to those kids,...

With Groundhog Day rapidly approaching, my mind has turned to the elusive do-over. The 1993 Bill Murray flick named for February 2nd has to be one of my all-time favorite, watch-it-every-time-it's-on movies. For those who haven't seen it (and really, what kind of carpet are you living under? Netflix it...

One of the most surprising things about hitting my late-thirties stride is looking back on how becoming a parent has changed my life. At 38, I'm a busy, working mother of a two-year-old. I make time to date my husband, read a book or two and even get in a...

No one likes a whiner. Fewer people like complainers. And even fewer like those who give ultimatums because their whining and complaining hasn't worked.

If you traced the evolution of a complaint, it would likely look something like this: unmet expectations lead to dissatisfaction, which leads to complaints, which...

When you take a look around the internet or listen to the news, it seems that everyone has a legitimate reason, or two, to be angry these days. The left is mad, the right is mad, people in the middle are mad and those checked out are mad. We have...

When it comes to marriage, there's lots of advice about how to create and sustain a healthy union. It seems that everyone from clergy, to therapists, to lay educators have opinions about what is good (and bad) for marriages in the U.S. This past weekend, we had the...

A few weeks ago, a good friend's mother passed away. Sylvia had lung cancer, and like a lot of cancers it moved through her body until it reached the super highway of her blood stream. It wasn't a long process, although she did live months longer than expected and relatively...

As I get older and my life becomes more complicated, I've noticed that my desire to spend time with certain friends has waned. Not that I don't love and care for them, but for various reasons, these friendships have become too complicated or too negative to warrant the effort that...