What do you wish to become when you grow up? What's your life long-passion, an ever-present yearning for you to fulfill? Many of us have such dreams and lifelong desires but find time is slipping by and our dreams are ever allusive. More >>

As we grow older, our bodies start to slow down. Age sets in. But none of us want to admit it. We all want to look our best - as long as we can. More >>

Mirror Mirror is told from the point of view of Snow White's evil stepmother, much like the wildly popular story Wicked centers on Dorothy Gale's nemesis, the wicked witch of the west. Yet... More >>

Full of interesting topics to discuss with older kids, The Hunger Games is much too emotional and violent for younger viewers. More >>

It seems recently everywhere you look a low carbohydrate product is being sold or a new low carb diet advertised. What is causing this craze over carbohydrates? More >>

Any movie that piques kids' curiosity to read classic literature like Treasure Island, Gulliver's Travels and the works of Jules Verne already gets points in my book. More >>

"I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees," opens the self-named "guardian of the trees" and hero of the film version of Dr. Seuss's 1971 classic children's book, The Lorax, setting up the story of what went so wrong in a town as bright, happy, yet as plastic as Thneedville. More >>

I enjoyed reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett a few years back, and tonight I finally watched the film version to gear up for the upcoming Oscars. More >>

In 2007, the Washington Post ran an article on the relatively new phenomenon of "email bankruptcy," citing statistics such as: there were 6 trillion business emails sent in 2006; workers were increasing their daily workload... stress levels were increasing... That was five years ago and it hasn't gotten any better...Being a mother who is active in her children's lives, there seems to be no escape from "email overload" for me. More >>

When the controversy sparked recently about a little girl on the TLC show Toddlers & Tiaras being dressed up as Julia Roberts's prostitute character on Pretty Woman, I had to tune in to see what it is all about. More >>