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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Religion has a way of inserting itself into every personal aspect of your life that you just might begin to wonder whether there’s any room left in your head to call your own. Forget a room with a view, how about a head without dogma to get you through the day! A recent religious conference [...]

Feeling powerless in your old age? Unwanted? Left out of the family action because everybody moved into the big city leaving you behind to watch the squirrels attack your bird feeder in the country? Buck up, my friend, you do have power. Research shows that the grandparent-grandchild relationship offers a special bond for forging the [...]

Add one more reason to question the values of Catholicism as preached by those who profess to act in selfless servitude to he who goes by the name of God. If you weren’t shocked, yes shocked, by the rampant sexual abuse behavior of priests, then you probably won’t mind a priest here or there preying [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s human to desire children, especially when they are conceived out of your own DNA and come out bearing a pretty good resemblance to those who created the little tyke. When mother nature doesn’t cooperate, though, and the parts fail to produce offspring, should that be the end of the genetic road to conception? Is [...]

You know, somehow it’s not shocking to learn that Marcia Brady and Jan Brady has an “incestuous” lesbian relationship during the Brady Bunch family value years. Maureen McCormick (Marcia) recently confessed to bedding Eve Plumb (Jan) while they both starred on the Brady Bunch. We’re just wondering if Peter found their vibrators and other such [...]

Why do women cheat with married men? Have any theories on that subject? Editor-at-large of Star magazine Julia Allison does. She thinks its an ego boost for the cheating woman knowing she is in competition with the wife and “wins” by getting the husband to admit she’s more appealing than the wife.
Freud would probably [...]

Newsweek serves up a column once a week where they get people to write about their everyday experiences and how they have impacted their lives. Most of the columns are poignant glimpses into key moments in a person’s life where they discovered awful truths, shameful lies, or embraced an aspect of themselves they were to [...]

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 [...]

Forget the hurricane bearing down on Mexico. There’s a controversy swirling around two University of Chicago’s professors new book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. Essentially it argues that the relationship between the U.S. and Israel has turned into a rather peculiar financial beast. [...]

When you get dumped in the internet age, the thought of letting the world know it is certainly tempting, especially if there’s pictures and insider knowledge that might be damaging to the other party. In the case of Pulitzer prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler the temptation to write out of his anger got the best [...]

After reading about how the Catholic church continues to pay out record sums for child-unfriendly priests, it was nice to read how gay parents are taking their kids to the Provincetown Family Week celebration for a summer at the beach. But it’s not all fun. The celebration also includes workshops like…
The Toughest Questions Workshop by [...]

Rev. Reggie Longcrier, pastor of Exodus Missionary Outreach Church in Hickory, N.C. has a question for the presidential candidates: “Sen. Edwards has said his opposition to gay marriage has been influenced by his Southern Baptist background. We know religion was once used to justify slavery, segregation and women not being allowed to vote, all of [...]

The Catholic Church appears to have an amazing capacity to sublimate their guilt and shame and pass it off as aberrant behavior on the part of a few renegade priests, as long they confess their “sins” and say they’re sorry. When you found a religion based on a vow that your spiritual advisers will remain [...]

Omar Ossama bin Laden, 27, son of the infamous Osama bin Laden, just married Jane Felix-Browne, a 51-year-old grandmother. Gee, I wonder what Freud would have to say about that marriage. Something tells me Omar just might be a momma’s boy aka MILF lover. Talk about in-law problems!
Briton marries bin Laden’s son

You may think the whole notion of the seven-year itch exists only in the movies that star voluptuous blond bombshells like Marilyn Monroe, but new research suggests that couples fall into two categories: those who divorce after three years and those who hang on till seven years before pulling the pre-nup plug.
The seduction of [...]