Unbridled. Uncensored. Unfiltered. And at times, unpleasant. I know it's very "old media" of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web.

You'll have to forgive the old-media mind-set. Before I became a senior editor at the popular political blog the...

BCAM Born! It's hard to miss the banners with the sparkling, red, cracked egg sculpture by artist Jeff Koons sprinkled across the city. This week the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opens the 72,000 square foot, Renzo Piano-designed, $56 million showcase for contemporary art, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum....

Howard Ruby, Founder and Chairman of Oakwood Worldwide, the leading global temporary housing provider, is an accidental environmentalist. Or perhaps I should say award winning, accidental environmentalist? His long-time passion for photography led him to the Arctic where he quite simply fell in love with the polar bears he encountered....

Starting today on Living Now, our top "boxes" will be devoted to three fundamental dimensions that make our lives healthier, more productive, more meaningful, and more fulfilling:

"The Full Life" offers practical how-to info and advice on managing the "business of life" in ways that are more effective and less...

For women of my generation, it was the "juggling act." Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads. Younger women, many of whom watched their working...

Last week I played several rounds of phone tag with Dr. Rock Positano, whose warning about the dangers of summer's official footwear, the flip-flop, made headlines two weeks ago. "Flip-flops," the director of Non-Surgical Foot and Ankle Service at New York's Hospital for Special Surgery insists, "have single-handedly caused...

NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal is using his super-sized (7-foot 1 inch, 325 pounds) persona, his credibility as a four- time NBA champion, and the platform of a reality TV series to launch a "Shaq Attack" on the nation's childhood obesity epidemic.

Here's a highlight from the premier of "Shaq's...

Like millions of others Thursday morning, I woke up to this headline on the front page of my paper: "Doctors Change Course on Estrogen Therapy." Here we go again! The 'science' behind hormone replacement therapy has put women on a medically engineered, press-fueled, big pharma funded roller coaster ride. When...

I just read the New York Times article about Holly Peterson's The Manny, which hits stores Tuesday, and found this video. Thought you might want to take a look.

Johannesburg, South Africa -- Sometimes, aid for Africa doesn't look like you'd expect it to. On the last day of my visit to South Africa, it looks a lot like Oprah Winfrey. Oprah has lead a truly awe inspiring one-woman crusade to change the lives of the youngest and...

Johannesburg, South Africa -- After decades of neglect, billions of dollars (much of it from U.S. taxpayers) are now flowing into Africa for economic development, poverty reduction, education, and the fight against HIV/AIDS and other devastating diseases. On a weeklong trip to South Africa, the continent's most prosperous country, I...

I like to think of Living Now as the "front page" of our lives, with breaking news about -- and fresh takes on -- life's issues... big and small. Irreverent, and informative, Living Now will bring you the ideas, arguments, products and people shaping our lives today. What we...

A Woman in the White House, with education as her top priority. (What she doesn't? To take on the nation's top job herself.)

For Lifetime Television's original special "Spotlight 25" (airs Monday, March 26th, 8:00 PM, ET/PT) we spent a year taking a very detailed and very intimate look at...

There are a lot of things I am good at. Jeopardy is not one of them. I panic when I have to answer questions involving names, dates, historical or pop cultural references. I am seized with fear and I freeze. And it is mortifying. Once at a small dinner with...