I'm a big booster of marriage as the best place to deal with love. Divorce often seems wasteful to me: the wrong way to resolve many problems, and bad emotional ecology.
Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 02.15.2008 | Entertainment
What's happened as a result of The Vagina Monologues is a tribute to the power of one person - one misbehaving woman -- to move the world.
AP | Posted 02.15.2008 | Business
LAKELAND, Fla. — The importer of a Valentine's Day lollipop said it was voluntarily recalling the treats after metal fragments were found in at ...
Janet Ritz | Posted 02.14.2008 | Living
A Valentine's Day reminder, given chocolate's status as a conflict substance, that ethical (and tasty!) chocolate is readily available.
Jenna Henry Hansen | Posted 02.14.2008 | Living
I am not exactly sure when I became disgusted with the entire capitalist commercial holiday but I eventually decided I would no longer engage in this Hallmark holiday.
Christine Hassler | Posted 02.14.2008 | Living
It's often hard to see that the things we love or desire in others are the characteristics we have inside.
Major R. Owens | Posted 02.14.2008 | Living
We have decreed that females are / More than mere flesh and pleasure / The force of our feelings / No earthly instrument can measure. / We mixed testosterone with words / We invented poetry.
BusinessWeek Via MSNBC | Alison Damast | Posted 02.14.2008 | Business
The first date is just the start of what may turn out to be the largest spending spree of your life. With the average courtship before a marriage last...
Sally Kohn | Posted 02.14.2008 | Living
The billions of people living in poverty and billions more at the teetering edge need more than candy hearts.
Josh Bolotsky | Posted 02.14.2008 | Living
If your love has been dashed or never was, there are constant reminders at every corner of what you're missing.
The Street | Sonja Ryst | Posted 02.14.2008 | Business
Romance is in the air again, and it might be the time to pop that special question: "Do you want to sign a prenuptial agreement?" The challenge is ho...
Gretchen Rubin | Posted 02.14.2008 | Living
In honor of Valentine's Day, while you're drinking champagne, or eating chocolates, or grousing about what a silly, consumerist holiday it is, take a minute to prove your love by becoming an organ donor.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 02.14.2008 | Business
On this romantic holiday, let's all raise a cup of very sweet nectar to Eros, who is no stranger to our shore. Tomorrow we can straighten up, fly right, and laugh at the idiots in the matching velour jumpsuits.
Lea Lane | Posted 02.14.2008 | Living
On Valentine's Day he sent me a dozen perfect roses and a card with a dog paddling in water that said "This is our first Valentine's Day and I'm over my depth in love with you."
Huffington Post | Posted 02.14.2008 | Media
Sherri Shepherd is recently divorced and has taken a vow of abstinence, leaving her loveless this Valentine's Day. When she asked producer Bill Geddi...
New York Times | Julia Moskin | Posted 02.14.2008 | Business
Chocolate's dark mood is lightening at last. Until recently, midnight-black, bittersweet bars with punishing percentages of cacao were, like coffee a...
CNN | Diane Mapes | Posted 02.14.2008 | Living
Sullivan isn't alone in dreading Valentine's Day. Thanks to super-sized expectations and over-the-top commercialization, February 14 has gone from a s...
236.com: News You Can Misuse | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics
People all over the country are exchanging Valentines today as a token of love and friendship. Some are cute, some are heartfelt, some risqué, and th...
Danielle Crittenden | Posted 02.14.2008 | Politics
Ladeezman42: hey babe, plans r *set*, car pickin u up @ 8, rez @ hottest bbq jnt in town, u & me, jus like th ol days, ribz n romanz...
Doree Lewak | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics
OK, so if it's Valentine's Day and the candidates are falling over themselves to court us, then really, where is the love? Is Cupid merely apol...
Joan Z. Shore | Posted 02.13.2008 | Living
Madame Bovary, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Edith Piaf, have embodied the passion and pathos of Love (capital L). Carla, an ex-model and pop singer, does not, and neither does Sarko.
Karen Kisslinger | Posted 02.13.2008 | Living
In the quiet dormancy of winter, new understanding can emerge, and celebrating love and making new efforts to understand what it can be and how to live it, keeps hope alive.
Kaj Larsen | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics
The mandate for pest-free flowers and aesthetically perfect roses have created agricultural practices that are difficult for workers in Colombia.
Earl Pomerantz | Posted 02.13.2008 | Living
The entire Saint Valentine's Day experience was completely alien to our educational environment. I attended a Hebrew Day school, a religion-focused institution.
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