Is one goal of parenting to raise your children to become better parents than you are? My brothers and I sometimes talk about what it was like coming up in our family. Among ourselves, we say it was like being raised by wolves. We learned to say our prayers, marinate a steak, and tell a […]
Michele Gazzolo offers her take on the Oscar host’s night of offensive jokes. Seth MacFarlane. Until last night I had never seen him. He sang a passable song or two, and fit the tuxedo nicely. He reminded me of some boys I’d known in college who called each other Biff and Scooter. He reminded me […]
What is so wrong with admitting we can’t do everything on our own? The word “help” is recorded in the late 14th century as a cry of distress, and over the next hundred years grew wider and more generous, to include any form of assistance: “to offer support, succor; to benefit, do good to; cure, […]
This originally appeared on Girl Walks In. Republished here with permission. After a few testy weeks on OKCupid, I had a big idea: adversity dating. You know how it usually goes: People meet each other, they look into each others eyes and get a little crazy, they get obsessed with each other and bore other people […]
