Online Speed Dating Tips

Tired of blind dates? Don’t have time to fill out those exhausting online dating service profiles?
No doubt, finding your Mr. Right is a major investment of both time and effort.
SpeedDate.com founder Dan Abelon thinks he’s found quick and sensible solution: three-minute online speed dates, from the comfort of home
Says Abelon: “This new platform to put [...]

Enter the “Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives” Target Gift Card Contest!

Here’s your chance to win a $200 gift card from Target!
No purchase necessary! All you have to do is read this excerpt of Secret Lives of Husbands and Wives from our very own Josie Brown, and then click onto the link provided to give your answer.
Only one entry per person allowed.

All correct [...]

Jackie Collins: Why Bad Girls Finish First

Jackie Collins writes about bad girls.
If you want a really great on-the-edge-of-your-seat page-turner, then yes, it takes one to know one.
Collins admits she was a wild child growing up. “I’d climb out of windows to go out and party at night.”
Those hair-raising formative years were spent in  London. But by the time she was [...]

50-Plus Singleistas and the Remarriage Gap

The over-fifty divorcee: will she have a second shot at love?
In the movie It’s Complicated, Meryl Streep’s character, a successful baker named Jane, had a 10-year love drought (okay, she dated one guy in all that time, for a measly eight months) before she finds herself being wooed by two desirable guys her own age—
One [...]

Tome of the Mommy: Runaway Moms

Not everyone is cut out to have children.
Is that a blasphemy to say?
No. Because we all know it’s true.
Admit it: Doesn’t your belly tighten with dread when you’re in the presence of some woman who is visibly annoyed with, or publicly derisive to, her kid, embarrassing the poor thing in front of you or [...]

Tome of the Mommy: Ask Yourself, “Why did I Marry Him?”

I’ve been blessed with a wonderful relationship. My husband, Martin, and I have been together for over twenty years.
I’m always amazed when unhappy couples stay in a marriage. Isn’t the  goal to be with someone who makes you happy?
Not because each party feels some obligation to stay in the marriage.
When questioned as to whether they [...]

His Cheating Heart: Women Don’t Forgive, or Forget

Peace on Earth, good will toward men? Nope, not if they’ve cheated on you.
A series of studies carried out by the British dating site, Smooch.com, and ManCentral.com, a free gay chat site, highlights that when it comes to trusting cheats, women find it hard to forgive.
And no, they don’t forget his infidelity, either.
For the study,  [...]

Tome of the Mommy: Telling Your Child There Is No Santa

There is no “right time” to tell your children that there is no Santa.
Worse yet, there is no right way.
If you’re lucky, as you’re stumbling to get the words out, your son will pat you calmly on shoulder and say, “Look, Mom, I know what you’re trying to tell me, and it’s okay. I’ve already [...]

Tome of the Mommy: The Fighting of the Tree

For some of us, holiday rituals are our happiest memories. For others, they are the flint that sparks our greatest fears. Maybe memories of unhappy holidays past haunt us. Or maybe we stress out at the pressure to project “happiness” during this time of year.
If something truly important is bothering us, faking some form of [...]

Health Reform Bills: Pros and Cons for Women

One of the most succinct compendiums on the various health care reform bills currently in front of the United State Congress has been put together by the grass roots organization MoveOn.org.
Women — and to a great part, single women — are the most at risk of falling between the cracks, should some of the line [...]

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