It happened about 10 months ago. It wasn't a moment, or even a revelation. It was a gradual intuitive feeling that something was coming to an end and a new way was quietly making its presence known. Once it reached conscious awareness, it felt natural to begin to act on...

To understand the mission set forth in the website "protect.org", one need only spend an hour or so with Grier Weeks, Executive Director of the National Association to Protect Children. Ask him how we got where he is and he will tell you that after 20 years of...

The moment I realized that the Penn State scandal was breaking, and breaking big, I knew that the universe had taken over. My prayers had been answered. Lots of us have tried for a very long time to bring the issue of sexual abuse to the mainstream media without success....

Kids Kicking Cancer, a Detroit based non-profit organization dedicated to empowering kids with cancer, doesn't have the global visibility of the wildly successful pink ribbon campaign for breast cancer awareness that is front and center each October. At least not yet. But if Rabbi Elimelech Goldberg, or Rabbi...

My husband's parents were born shortly after the turn of the 19th century and lived well into their nineties. His Dutch father was a kind, pragmatic, small town Iowa physician, and his mother a fiery Irishwoman. The rich collection of family photos revealed my husband's grandfather to be a terrifying...

Stress must be one of the most oft-invoked words in our modern vocabulary. It is used in relation to jobs, finances, family, health and the attempt to manage them all at the same time. I used to joke about how my business was trying to kill me until I came...

Now that I'm moving into what will be the last trimester of my life experience, it seems much harder than I thought. Granted my perspective has been profoundly influenced by a high risk cancer diagnosis at age 42. A bone marrow transplant not only secured my recovery but offered me...

A recent New York Times op-ed stated that personality traits and attitude have no bearing on illness or one's ability to recover. In that the writer, Richard Sloan, is a professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University Medical Center and a published author on the subject, his superficial...

My company recently began a search for two managers and set up a nifty Gmail account to house the responses. In a short period of time, hundreds of resumes came pouring in. Our vice president, who wrote and posted the ad, spent hours reviewing the submittals, setting up interviews, and...

Life recently pulled me up short and drop-kicked me straight up into the air. During the ensuing freefall, figuring out how to land on my feet became top priority, knowing if I dilly dallied, ending up splattered on the ground cartoon style would be the unfortunate result. What is learned...

When Don Lemon began his CNN interview with three young African American members of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, he had no idea the turn it would take. He treated his guests gently and with respect, first allowing them to say why they stand behind their Bishop...

It would be more embarrassing to admit how long I have been a Tom Jones fan if it weren't for the fact that a good number of women who attend his Vegas shows are the age of my children. And speaking of age, how could this man be 70 years...

Cyrus, The Kids are All Right, and Solitary Man have something in common that makes me wonder if it isn't an indie trend. All three films feature a slice of life cinematic approach plus quirky characters that, in some cases, seem to exist only as a function of their appealing...

It has always been tough to be an Arizona sports fan. We are a resilient bunch, coming back each season for more punishment as we watch the Cardinals, Suns and Diamondbacks work through their perpetual problems. But hey, at least we have multiple major league sports teams. That alone gives...

As long as I can consciously remember, movies have held me together, lifted my spirits, fed my dreams, and given me a respite from the travails of everyday life and responsibility. I clearly remember as my bone marrow transplant was being scheduled trying to ascertain what movies would open while...

When I tuned in to watch Conan O'Brien's much-hyped interview on 60 Minutes, I thought he was going to give the inside scoop on what really came down with the whole Tonight Show thing. It was one of those stories that caught fire with the public by tapping into generalized...

Many times I have written about childhood sexual abuse in the Huffington Post. Those blogs don't get a lot of reader comments and it is not surprising. It is not a subject that people want to read about, think about, much less formulate comments about. And I totally...

The very first time I ever watched Glenn Beck's show was this week when Eric Massa was his guest. It was clear from Beck's hilarious set-up, including the questions he had written on a blackboard, that his expectations were high. In fact, there seemed to be salivating involved.

What followed...

When my son was 14, he suffered from depression brought on by his awareness of the suffering of others. Even though he was from a stable, loving home environment, he expressed determined empathy for friends who struggled with broken homes, identity confusion, substance abuse, and lack of love. He took...

Yes, his delivery was wooden and the "apology expert" who appeared on ESPN prior to the statement warned that he should not read his apology, he should offer it from the heart. But it was immediately clear from the moment Tiger walked onto the stage that it would not be...