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Dear Daughters, Don’t Be a People Pleaser Like Me

Dear daughters: don’t be like me. Don’t spend your youth trying to please everyone but yourself. Don’t spend your time always…

The other day I saw a photo of myself standing near a river with my daughter and unbidden, the thought popped into my head. “When on earth did my…

Hey, you! Yes, you with the beautiful round belly. I see you shuffling along, tugging at the waist of your maternity jeans, wondering how you could…

I once had a German Sociology professor in college who told us that, where he came from, American college students were often viewed as “happy…

This is legitimate. Deep inner lies have told me that it is not. These lies told me it will never be. They told me I am wasting my time. I am an…

When you spend your days with small children, you’re almost always looking for a reason to leave the house. To keep the peace, we go for a walk…

Online dating wasn’t a new concept to me, but surprisingly, or even resignedly, I somehow found myself back on the meat-market of online dating in…

You have to grow a thick skin when you work in the television news business. As we are reporting the news, thousands of people at home are…