I have a friend, about ten years older than I am, who is an old fashioned, salt-of-the earth type. She’s from the midwest and is staunch about certain things like God, America and family. She constantly says things like, “If people would just do right…” Now, she’s not boring, mind you. This statement is often […]

One of the most valuable lessons that parents can impart to their children is socialization — how to behave in public and how to conduct relationships with everyone from strangers to family to friends.
Four Tips for Ways Parents Can Help Their Kids Make Friends:
1) Don’t push the child towards a certain person. Sit […]

Sometimes those leaps of faith are less leaps and more following your true path. Most people — especially women — ignore their instincts and do what they’ve been told to do or do what they need to please people. Most of these people are not even aware that they’re doing this — but they are. […]

I feel sorry for women, and there are quite a few, who don’t have good relationships with their mothers. I can’t imagine it because I’ve been blessed with a mother who is beyond wonderful.
Even though I threw many a temper tantrum in childhood as well as in adulthood. Even though I retaliated for something one day, […]

The other day a very good point was brought up on a radio talk show I listen to. The host is an old school journalist. He attended the University of Florida back in the seventies (I think) when news was really news. I too went to the UF and studied journalism. Even in my day (1983) […]

Reading has a way of creating personal space while traveling, plus it’s emotional and psychological benefits — including its role as a stress reliever and a way to escape the claustrophobic feeling of being packed tightly together with other people — to say nothing of a way to gain knowlege and expand your vocabulary.
Tips […]

What is the social and culture impact of MoSoSo (mobile social software), as it becomes more widely used and combined with GPS technology?
As a dating and relationship expert, my mind goes right to the possibilities of GPS tracking chips — and they are myriad!
* Want to know where your boyfriend/husband (girlfriend/wife) really goes on […]

God save the queen–from any further encounters with our (not mine, I didn’t vote for him) prudence-plundering president. I’m just wondering, does he actually practice his speeches before he makes them? If so, does he get his helpful feedback from Batman’s joker or what? Something is going repeatedly and horribly wrong.
This time it was only Queen […]

The problem isn’t that women are hard on themselves — it’s that they don’t know themselves. Women often think that they are immortal people with super powers. They aren’t. They take on more than they are capable of doing or they take on things that they are not capable of doing given the amount of […]

The whole term “working fathers” is almost laughable. When did fathers become anything but working fathers. Of course, there are the bums, but really — most fathers are good, caring, providing dads to their children. And that means that they’re working fathers!
And for that matter — when did mothers become anything but “working mothers”? […]