If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.

Work-family conflicts - the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child - would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

When the president of the United States flicks the switch to light up the Christmas tree on the White House lawn, that house ceases to be an American symbol; it becomes a Christian symbol.