Life Done Right™

For those of you wondering whether college has changed much since your own youthful indiscretions the answer is….no. It’s still all about hooking up and dealing with the emotional aftermath. How this journey gets articulated varies from person to person, but at Cornell, students are fortunate to have Jenna B talking the talk and laying [...]

If you tear down this Bay Ridge landlord’s Christmas decorations and dump them on his porch, watch out! You may get a note taped to your door that reads, “Dear Scumbag, If I catch you, I will kill you where you are. You don’t want to f- - - with the Irish.” Rodney King once [...]

Amy Fisher, the Long Island Lolita who bedded Joey Buttafuco, still lives in the sexlight of her affair. She recently was interviewed by Steppin Out magazine and had this to say about Joey: “When he was the older man 17 years ago, he was just 33 years old. But now he’s 50 . . [...]

New York City is filled with characters who, if you have a couple of minutes, will fill your ear with how to make the world a better place. One such person, apparently, is a gray-haired lady who sits on a bench outside a 14th Street tailor’s shop. Customers come and go but not without the [...]

Wouldn’t sex be great if all it required was looking at a mood ring on someone’s finger and if it was the right color you could make your moves knowing the response would be in your favor! Unfortunately science has not invented such a ring yet, so author Michele Davis wrote “The Sex-Starved Wife” to [...]

When your purpose in life is almost 100 percent derived from your work, then what happens after you retire? Where does your ego go for satisfaction when the daily rituals of work disappear? Will all that “free time” truly provide you with a sense of identity that equals the stroking your job nurtured through your [...]

Clever anthropologists ask questions that may seem ridiculous at first but then turn out to offer profound insights into the nature of humanity. Who knew that asking whether the tone of a man’s voice just might have an influence over the fertile women in his vicinity…and yet it does apparently. Fertile women like men with [...]

Craigslist “Casual Encounters” is a jungle, man. There are all kinds of strange animals roaming the forest looking to engage in primal acts of pleasure with complete strangers.
One 19-year-old girl says, “so i have today off and tonight i have plans.. but what is there to do until then? i just wanna makeout with [...]

New research shows that men fail to show emotion unless they think that which they are expressing emotion about is pure fiction. What’s that mean? It means if a man is watching a movie, he won’t cry if he knows the story is based on reality. If you tell him it’s all a fantasy, then [...]

OK ladies, we’re on to you. Those trips you’ve been taking to places like Kenya, a country that is “just full of big young boys who like us older girls,” we know they’re just about uninhibited sex. One question, though: that word “big” refers to what exactly? Just remember, though, that AIDS in Africa has [...]

For those women who have never heard of the word narcissism before, please, enjoy this article about yet another ambitious feminist who can’t seem to sustain a personal relationship but can sure find time to bond with the abstract love shared by her grandparents. It’s a touching tale of self-indulgence that makes every effort to [...]

Old age brings a rash of problems that have nothing to do with your life but somehow become the focal point of your daily existence. Who knew pill popping at $5 a pill times four or five would produce such a strain on your meager purse. When your children come to visit why is it [...]

A will is more than a desire to express your feelings…it’s a piece of paper that articulates the nature of your relationship to another human being in monetary terms. The value you place on that relationship is directly related to the size of the inheritance. Spare the love, darling, just make sure there’s enough cash [...]

“We’re here. We’re old. Get the f**k used to it.” [Edited for those of you who find the English language offensive.]
Mark Cuban, the dude who sold broadcast.com for $500 million before the internet bubble burst, recently vented about the media constantly writing articles about how anyone over the age of 30 seems incapable of adapting [...]

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OK ladies, take a lesson from Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of real estate developer Donald Trump, and find yourself a younger man so you can be a sexy nanny instead of a nurse maid to a soiled old man who constantly forgets your name, unless, course, the old man has the bucks, in [...]

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Writer Salmon Rushdie turned up at the Whitney Museum of American Art the other night with this woman. Not sure of her name. He recently separated from his wife, Padma Lakshmi. Always fun to catch two people in conversation.

Writers make up all kinds of stories that usually have some factual basis. The rule of thumb is that if you can think it up, then it’s probably happened somewhere or will shortly. I’m not sure anyone would have come up with this scenario though. A kid’s mother dies so he moves in with an [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]