It was shocking, if not surreal. The email message was from a woman I'd never met and whose name I recognized only because, a few months earlier, she mailed me a book she'd written.
The messag...
As a kid in elementary school, almost nothing was scarier than the possibility of getting a bad mark on your permanent record. No one wants to be labeled a "problem." And though your missteps in...
Inspired by celebrities' looks on the red carpet, a top look for prom gowns is old Hollywood glamour. Evoking Hollywood starlets of the 1930s through the '50s, gowns are long and "column-style, i...
When you were a child, your Christmas list was long and detailed. You didn't worry about asking for too much or looking greedy. After all, most kids had lengthy lists. But as you grow up, it get...