20th November 2009
We've seen it on a daily basis. Someone that is overloaded with luggage or has one shopping bag to many tries to hail a cab. Then you watch them get inside which may be a production unto itself. After arriving at their destination exiting the cab can also...
17th November 2009
There is something galling about seeing a person that has worked hard their entire life having to in essence sleep with one eye open because they have reached a certain age that makes them particularly vulnerable to the predators of our society.
Of co...
12th November 2009
In May 2006, Wook Kundor of Malaysia married Muhamad Noor Che Musa. Doesn't sound like anything out of the ordinary except Kundor was one hundred and four years old while Musa was only thirty three. It was at that time believed to be the largest marriage ...
12th November 2009
This fall MTV offers up another helping of reality TV with the show Disaster Date. The gist is that people who were setup on blind dates that turned out to be nightmares can now get revenge by setting their single friend up with a blind date who in realit...
11th November 2009
It's enough to make the most indifferent of observers angry. Except like many of us the target of their anger is generally misplaced.
We see a woman who is a victim of domestic violence and are upset that she has let herself become victimized.
Of ...
04th November 2009
Count yourself lucky that if in the course of your marriage the two of you have never had an argument; never even had a disagreement. If you did you and your spouse handled it so magnificently that both of you should be teaching class somewhere; or at lea...
03rd November 2009
By all accounts consumers are doing a much better job of detecting and reporting identity theft. In fact the number of incidents had been in decline for a number of years.
"Had been" is the key phrase. According to Javelin Strategy and Research, ident...
26th October 2009
There are no good old days. That's not to say people didn't have their share of fun and laughter but any attempt to idealize another time period does not do the people who lived thru it any favors. Duke Ellington once wrote a song entitled "Things Ain't W...
23rd October 2009
One of the effects of domestic violence is illustrated in studies done by organizations like the Coalition for Battered Women. It is believed that when a woman attempts to leave a violent relationship the risk to her increases by a startling seventy five ...
20th October 2009
Early this year talk show host Oprah Winfrey featured an episode on the domestic violence cycle. She interviewed one gentleman who told her what it was like when he was physically assaulting his wife, "It made me feel invincible."
The first word that ...
20th October 2009
At first you thought it was just nerves. Perfectly understandable. The courting, the engagement and the preparation stage are all leading to arguably the most important day of your life. Marriage is such a biggie that it's only natural you would have some...
16th October 2009
As professional basketball player Richard Jefferson could probably tell you, it's not something that just happens in the movies. Jefferson was in the news but mostly for what took place off the court.
Jefferson and his fiance Kesha Ni Cole Nichols had...
15th October 2009
Something is going on with your significant other. And it ain't good. There is no doubt in your mind that they are fooling around but it appears like they know that you know. So the obvious cheating spouse signs that you read about are not there. Or at le...
15th October 2009
"Out of how many customer-service desks, out of how many registers she could have gone to, and she had to come to me?" It almost sounds like a take off of the Humphrey Bogart line from the movie Casablanca. It isn't. For Michelle McCambridge, the situatio...
14th October 2009
While computers and the internet have come to be an accepted part of our daily lives there are still many people who want no parts of them.
There are several complaints to go along with this. The perceived lack of privacy in the form of having to prov...
