It’s never too late to change For years I blamed my unhappiness on my adoption. I was seven years old when I was moved from a life of grilled cheese sandwiches and getting beaten with rubber hoses and brushes for wetting the bed to a middle-class, love-less existence where I…

With a huge dose of emotion! If you’re actively living your life, lemons are inevitable. You finally find the job that feels right and you know it’s for you, but you can’t get past that stumbling block of a hiring manager who has other ideas. You quit your day job…

It’s simple: When you don’t own the company, follow the rules until you do. Some days, getting one of the ladies to vacate the stall so I can pee requires me to turn my radio to the channel with the most chatter and crank the volume. It usually works —…

The warning signs were there but I was distracted My ex-husband tried to kill me — but I still tried to believe him when he said he was playing. We were in the upstairs bedroom of the first house we rented — our one day off work together— when verbal…

You are blind to how technology is destroying you physically and nutritionally. "The doctor said I have diabetes, so I've got to eat better and exercise more." I wasn’t surprised by my coworker’s revelation. …

Tips to consider when our behaviors baffle you “You’re on break? Good, now I can tell you this story.” But I didn’t want to hear a story; I wanted to sit at my desk, eat my lunch and read for 30 minutes. I felt terrible when I heard the disappointment…

R.I.P. to “60 is the new 30!” comment — “You look good for your age.” I hear this constantly from, I’d like to think, well-meaning people 20 to 30 years my junior. A controversial comment — yes? It’s also an insulting comment for many women — a slick way of denouncing the natural progression and beauty of age; a…