National trends are definitely towards driving and staying closer to home due to the rising cost of gas prices that affect all of our travel. In addition fear of terrorism is keeping families closer to home because they think they’re safer on American soil.
The boom in high gas mileage hybrid cars has increased the […]

This year’s Emmy fashions will have an emphasis on elegance. The fashion over the years has hit inappropriate beats, funky beats, and just plain outlandish beats, but over the years, the trend has been coming back to elegance. Taking their cue from Ms TomKat and Jennifer Garner, the moms who seem to have it all, […]

Kids get their sense of right and wrong from the people that they are around most — and that’s usually their mom and dad. So when children have ideas about their grandparents and what to ask for and what not to ask for, they may be channeling their parents.
Some children are very outspoken and […]

Should you trust your women’s intuition?
Of course! Why wouldn’t you? Why would you second guess yourself? The answer is that women have been taught that they are not as smart as other people, and to distrust their instincts. This lesson has led to decades of self-esteem issues in women and everyone they affect — […]

Rumors are powerful. The internet speeds things up like never before. A rumor that is fueled by internet instant messaging, e-mailing, message board messages and website notices can travel at lightning speed to hundreds of thousands of millions of people.
When the rumor is one that is potentially harmful, or carries a message of harm, […]

Geeks are the new jocks.
And while there will always be a place in the hearts of women for football player types, lots of women have stopped complaining about the shortage of good men, and have opened their eyes to the assets of geeks. There is no shortage of thanks to Beauty and The Geek, […]

In America, stag and hen parties, or bachelor and bachelorette parties as we call them, have gotten OUT OF CONTROL — especially when it comes to the women. I was recently interviewed on FOX’s O’Reilly Factor on this topic — here’s the link: http://www.askapril.com/flv/
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It’s really a shame that children are being taught that the world is a safe place, when the truth is that violence and survival is part of biology and our more recent culture as human beings.
Pain is part of life, and so is death. Kids only have to look at the animal kingdom or […]

The internet has increased the number of urban legends by a long shot. There are so many people connected to the internet now, that “whisper down the lane” methods of communicating rumors, gossip, urban legends and news went through hyper-drive. An urban legend that may have made the rounds in a high school, now makes […]

Smoking used to be fashionable — so fashionable, in fact, cigarette holders and cigarette lighters were glamour personified. An engraved cigarette lighter or a Tiffany’s cigarette case spoke volumes about one’s breeding and sophistication. Now, the pendulum has swung, and fashion has placed cigarettes at the bottom of the food chain. Smoking equals loser.
Some […]