Game rooms have replaced kitchens as the center of the home, and the reason is that the family is now engaging in more casual repartee and interactions on a more frequent basis. The game room is the place where family watches television, does homework, hangs out, and plays games — together.
The popularity of the […]

Single girls (and Mickey Rourke) love their lapdogs: they find them comforting, as well as cool fashion accessories. But is there a dark side to this? Are lapdogs allowing some people to avoid risky real entanglements?
For those who ask the question, ‘Which came first the chicken or the egg?’, there is the derivative question, […]

Last weekend I went to one of my favorite places–Miami. I grew up there on a small island, just off the coast, called Key Biscayne. I wouldn’t trade my early years there for anything on earth. Back then the island was a sleepy little place where bicycles were the main mode of transportation and everyone on the […]

The most interesting thing about studies regarding happiness is the way people define happiness. In my experience as an advice columnist, people are happy for different reasons, and what they consider to be happiness varies from family to family and often micro-culture to micro-culture.
The problem with happiness is that it is not a state that […]

The trend in tipping is that more people are tipped than ever before. Why? Because there are more people in our lives. We’re much more interactive than ever before.
We have tech support guys, hair stylists, hair colorists, nutritionists, accupuncturists, yoga teachers, kids’ doctors, kid’s piano teachers, kid’s Little League coaches and more.
Many people tip doormen, […]