Mark Shriver, 11.04.2009
Vice President and Managing Director of U.S. Programs for Save the Children
With a poverty crisis affecting one in six children in America, we need new ways to raise awareness and engage more Americans in this tragic yet reversible situation. Perhaps the best resource for advocacy is kids themselves.
Patricia Zohn, 08.09.2009
Journalist, screenwriter and producer
Erin is a dynamo of both word and person, and Wordnik is just like what the word doctor may have ordered.
Keith Blanchard, 03.22.2009
Now that money doesn't grow on trees anymore, all we can do is gather the grandchildren into a circle and tell them amazing tales of the world o' plenty we once had. Will it even sound plausible?
Danny Groner, 03.19.2009
Video Editor/Online Assistant Editor at TheWeek.com
He's just not that into you.
American cinema fans have been reminded how powerful and encompassing just six words can be. Sometimes the shorter - and...
Joan Z. Shore, 03.17.2009
Co-founder, Women Overseas for Equality (Belgium)
Ours will be a virtual romance, with no candy, no flowers, no fancy dinners. Just an exchange of passionate e-mails, a photo or two, and a promise to connect again next February.
Kevin Roose, 03.17.2009
Author, "The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University"
Instead of celebrating Valentine's Day, my classmates at Liberty University celebrate the National Day of Purity, a conservative Christian holiday designed to promote abstinence before marriage.
Carolita Johnson, 03.17.2009
cartoonista, etc.

Jill Sobule, 03.17.2009
Singer/Songwriter
The person who I am seeing presently and I have decided not to exchange gifts this Valentine's Day -- it's hard times for everyone. Here's the closest thing I have to a nice Valentine's love song.
Jodi Lipper and Cerina Vincent, 03.17.2009
Since last month's release of How to Love Like a Hot Chick, we've been talking to women all over the country about their dating trials and relationshi...
Julia Moulden, 03.17.2009
New Radical: how we earn our living can become the way we give back.
Looking for a great movie for Valentine's Day? Something to help you believe again in the power of love to save people's lives and change the world?
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Isobel White, 03.16.2009
Writer, Communications Consultant, Activist, and Mom
Five years ago today, my partner and I stood in line for hours at SF City Hall, waiting patiently to get our marriage license.
Leeat Granek, PhD, 03.16.2009
Leeat Granek, PhD
My parents were not the touchy-feely type. They didn't hug and kiss in public. They didn't even wear their wedding rings. But, they had an intimacy that was enviable.
Virginia M. Moncrieff, 03.16.2009
International Correspondent
Illicit hand-holding in shopping malls, canoodling in public parks, and women drinking in pubs. Holy cow! India seems to be veering down the highway to moral hell.
Grant Cardone, 03.16.2009
Author of Sell to Survive and International Sales and Business Expert
Most of my life I was under the delusion that love was a feeling, something that was going to happen to me.
Bridget Moloney, 03.16.2009
Bridget Moloney is a blogger for Bon Appetít's ...
Dr. Susan Albers, 03.16.2009
Author, "50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food" and "Eating Mindfully"
If you crossed chocolate off the list of gifts your sweetie can buy you for Valentine's Day this year, think again. You don't have to avoid chocolat...
Russell Simmons, 03.16.2009
Founder of GlobalGrind.com
Valentine's Day is here and we are thinking about love. Not the passionate, intense, cue the Al Green music, heart pounding kind of love. Today we are thinking about compassionate love.
Joel Schwartzberg, 03.16.2009
Essayist, Author of "The 40-Year-Old Version"
President's Day may be the perfect occasion for an underwear sale, but at least Washington's face graces the newspaper ads. Even Punxsutawney Phil got a movie deal. But where is St. Valentine?
Ari Bendersky, 03.16.2009
Ari Bendersky is a lifestyle journalist covering food, wine, music and culture
These bubbly's won't break the bank, but they will tickle your nose and make you happy -- even if you're a cynic like me.
Adam Rose, 03.16.2009
Last week, a guy I know told me he was sick and tired of walking into drug stores and getting blinded by pink and red.
So he created Ban Valentine's...
Lauren Kirchner, 03.16.2009
9. Find out what your significant other values more than anything else in the world and then use that to mock and insult him/her until he/she breaks up with you the day before Valentine's Day.