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Guest AuthorApril 21, 2014

It’s amazing how quickly humans adapt to changing circumstances. A few months ago I wrote about how challenging my first month of life was with a newborn — what many refer to as “baby boot camp,” a perfect term since you’re thrust into a new state of being where life is organized around one thing. […]

Guest AuthorApril 7, 2014

I’m not a germaphobe by any means, but I love cleanliness. When I clean, I really clean, and I usually won’t stop until the mixed smells of my various cleaning products permeate my house. I will fill countless bags of giveaway items to be taken to Goodwill. I would describe myself as the opposite of […]

Guest AuthorMarch 27, 2014

I am a proud member of the sandwich generation. Sociologist Dorothy A. Miller coined the term in 1981 to classify people who care for their aging parent(s) while helping to support their own children. A recent analysis of Census Bureau data by the Pew Research Center noted that nearly half (47 percent) of Americans aged […]

Guest AuthorMarch 19, 2014

Yes, it can happen to you… In November, I was contacted by phone and email by my credit card company’s fraud department. The customer-service representative informed me that our card number had been compromised and that they were going to close the account immediately and send replacement cards. After the representative and I reviewed the […]

Guest AuthorMarch 13, 2014

As a kid, I loved horror movies, and so one year I set out to record every horror movie ever made. My parents had purchased a box of blank VHS tapes from Sam’s Club, and I used Super Long Play to record three movies to a single tape. (The quality was terrible, but this was […]

Guest AuthorMarch 11, 2014

I know how I am going to sound. Really, I do. And I hate it. When I was younger, I always vowed that when I reached my current age (mid-40s), I would never be that guy. But I must face the fact that I am indeed turning into that guy. Seriously, what’s wrong with kids’ […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 26, 2014

OK, I admit it: I have road rage, just not the kind that makes me drive 4 feet behind someone who has made me angry, or leads me to exact vengeance on other drivers. Other drivers rarely do anything that makes me insane. Yes, there are people who cut me off, or people who drive […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 19, 2014

There it was in The New York Times: schmutz. In an article on the efficacy of raising the height of the Bayonne Bridge connecting New York’s Staten Island with New Jersey, no less a maven than the executive director of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey made a point by stating: “The […]

Guest AuthorFebruary 17, 2014

My Facebook page has been laden with recent activity about a topic I am deeply invested in: masculinity. As a Women’s Studies instructor, I am familiar with the association of feminism with man-hating but am equally familiar with the mythology of such assumptions. As a feminist, I care about masculinity for many reasons — for one, […]

Guest AuthorJanuary 29, 2014

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If America really is the “land of opportunity,” then everyone truly should have a fair chance to succeed. Sadly, however, I don’t believe we are the land of promise we once were. With the world so full of discrimination, the term “land of opportunity” often gives people false hope. The American Dream is not as […]

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Leandra Preston-Sidler: Employers need to do more to help working moms

Erin O’Flaherty: Hit the ‘reset’ button and get back to the basics

Rebekah McCloud: ‘You are the Momma now’

Maritza Martinez: How many credit card frauds must we endure?

Nathan Holic: The anxiety of ‘read it later’

Tom Cavanagh: Is today’s music too obscene, or have I become ‘that guy’?

Mark Routhier: Traffic lights turn me red

Rich Sloane: Read this if you want to be a ‘maven’ on Yiddish terms

Leandra Preston-Sidler: A ‘masculine’ man is a sensitive man

Erin O’Flaherty: America needs to reclaim status as ‘land of opportunity’