Lies.  We teach our children not to lie, we are stunned when they lie to us for the first time – in this case, when I say “we,â€� I really mean “you,â€� because I’m certain my children will never lie to me – but the cold reality is this: we lie to our children all time; they are lear...

Ladies and Gentlemen…start your engines, tune up your bikes, grab your hiking boots! The Eat Well Guide is challenging you to find good food on the road, wherever your travels take you this spring break! And for the first time ever, we’re offering PRIZES to spring breakers who plan the m...

So a few months ago I explained that I was one of several local media "celebrities" picked to live in a house...wait, that's not right. Oh yeah...picked to try to learn to dance and face off against West Palm Beach's Mayor Lois Frankel in a twirl to the death at the Kravis Center on Saturday. The Ma...

Are we seeing things or are those little alien skeletons popping up from the watch face? And tire treads? Are those tire treads? (Credit: A Blog to Read) We're not really sure what truths the "Truth About Roswell" watch conveys, but they appear to have something to do with the legendary discovery in...

Today: 15C and I hadn't done laundry in about a million years.  I was running pretty late so I made the decision to wear this new black dress.  Admittedly, it is a spring/summer dress, however, all I'm saying is, white people in Canada start wearing their shorts...

I still haven't decided what I think of Twitter. I think I would like it more if more of my friends used it. There are times when I just want to say something quick - something that just doesn't seem worth a blog entry, and Twitter seems great for that. Especially if I'm away from home a...

Not so sweet, not so surprising Scientists at Yale have found the “missing link” between high fructose corn syrup and type II diabetes.  Also, the average American gulps down 60 lbs of the stuff every year. Private inspections a weak defense The NY Times tell the story of a private insp...

UK columnist Melanie Phillips presents here the damning case against former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Chas Freeman, the Obama Administration’s nominee for chairman of the National Intelligence Council, or the gatekeeper on the intelligence that will cross the President’s desk. Not only ...

I love my Subaru Forester, except for one small problem - it only gets 22 mpg. And it's getting older now, so I'll need to think about getting a new car anyway in the next few years. So I tend to think about what car I would buy if I needed to buy one suddenly. (This turned out to be very us...

    The lock on my mailbox in the vestibule downstairs is a little wonky.  Wonky, as in, nobody but me can get it open.  My dad says this is something I should demand action on.  Something like the back steps.  My dad is probably right but to be honest, I do...