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Those living near the Mexican border know first hand that an imaginary line separating one country from another doesn’t mean a whole hell of lot in terms of restricting the flow of non-US citizens into this country. If you can find a way into this country, legal or otherwise, then anything goes because the enforcement [...]

Christina Aguilera recently appeared on Ellen DeGeneres. Ellen started off by asking, “Are you nursing?” You just might have to watch the clip to confirm it for yourself.

If you live in the Philadelphia area and spot a maroon color 1999 Chevrolet Lumina with New Jersey Prisoner of War plate number P1849, please report it immediately to the police. A couple in their 80’s left a relatives home and have not been seen since. How crazy is that…a car can vanish without a [...]

The one thing researchers seem incapable of figuring out is what makes the human mind happy. Is it money? Expensive objects? A house on the beach. Is it material versus spiritual? The answer, my friends, is not the leaves falling off the money tree in your background. It all boils down to one thing: social [...]

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A piece of advice to you older gentlemen who like to marry younger women: don’t forget to leave enough money in your will to your spouse so she can afford to live beyond her means without working forever. Randolph Hearst apparently didn’t leave his wife, Veronica Hearst, enough cash to run the [...]

Lately actor Jon Voight has been starring in a vicious reality show that stars not only himself but his son, James, and daughter, Angelina (as in Jolie). The conflict: Jon divorced their mother and the animosity that resulted set up a father-offspring gravitational energy that has placed Jon smack dab in the center of an [...]

Teenagers pretty much find everything their parents do incredibly lame and like, whatever. As the years pass, though, the relationship teeters back to the smarmy middle where it’s more about enjoying their presence cuz like life really is short after all and who has time to worry anymore about whether your cliquey friends think you’re [...]

What do you get when you mix a corporate billionaire with a car mechanic? Answer: A high concept movie about two guys itching to live before they kick the bucket and discover the ashes inside belong to them. The movie is called The Bucket List. It’s directed by Rob Reiner. It opens on Christmas, December [...]

Once upon a time staying in touch with your friends meant getting off your butt and walking down the sidewalk to your next door neighbor’s for a cup of coffee. Now, everyone drinks their coffee at Starbucks and lives a million miles away from most of their family so the idea of staying in touch [...]

Forget thumb or foot prints as clues to your ancestors. Pay Maureen Taylor $60 an hour and she’ll scrutinize your old cabinet cards of long lost relatives and report back to you with a wealth of information about their place in history and perhaps, just perhaps, help you identify them. So stop watching CSI and [...]

He’s known as the minister of fitness and his name is Harry Schneider. If you walk into his gym, though, leave your narcissistic behavior behind, because his brand of fitness is all about bringing families together. Harry is “interested in bringing faith, encouragement and support as part of a fitness regime.” Harry nabbed the Super [...]

Experience they say forms the nature of our identity. The opportunity to be yourself is the holy grail. So with all due respect, check out this 2-foot tall pregnant woman. Is it possible the circumference of her belly might be longer than her height? The sad part: carrying the baby to full-term is pretty iffy. [...]

Ask any kid from a very large family how much of their parents’ attention they received growing up and you’re likely to get a frown. Birth order researchers tell us that every kid must discover a “strategy” for getting their parent’s attention. The problem: those kids who come first get first crack at the best [...]

The cost of milk is going up, up, up. For years farmers pleaded for higher prices and now they have them, but so do we, the consuming public. As a kid, milk came free, courtesy of momma; she was an all-you-can-drink milk dispenser that might even sing a little until the hunger subsided and it [...]

Parents of latch-key kids are discovering those lost years have a price: divorce. Broken or detached relationships set up a lifelong pattern of miscommunication and endless bouts of relationship fury that ultimately end in two people simultaneously declaring: “I want a divorce!”
The parents of these kids are hardly innocent bystanders, though, especially when there [...]

People have a way of accumulating stuff over the years, so much so, that the self-storage business is booming and the quaint tag sale has been supplanted by the mania of Ebay auction sales. There’s nothing like the thrill of stalking a treasured item on Ebay and snagging it in the final precious seconds of [...]

The problem: “My mom needs home care and it costs a lot of money.”
The setup: Hilly Kristal, the owner of CBGB club in New York, died and left his daughter, Lisa Burgman, as executor of his will. Hilly’s mother, Kara, 82, was president of CBGB but signed over her shares in the company to [...]

It’s bad enough trying to get four people to agree on a restaurant: imagine picking a spot for a family reunion and having to book forty or fifty rooms, airline reservations, and car rentals. When you toss in each one’s amenity preferences, you may as well bag the vacation and hit the road solo.
Fact: [...]

Every family harbors at least one dark secret. Somewhere in the family tree there resides a relationship that remains hidden in the past, waiting to be discovered by a diligent genealogist. The effort required to get at the information, though, usually thwarts most armchair genealogy detectives.
The internet has completely changed the game. As millions [...]

Hippos kill more humans in Africa than any other mammal. For one couple in South Africa, though, a hippo has become a newly adopted member of the family with complete house privileges. The couple have named her Jessica the Hippo and she enjoys body massages and is allowed to let herself into the house for [...]