Happy Thanksgiving! Hope all my readers enjoy the day and find it peaceful, relaxing and fun.

I was reading an article in Forbes magazine today about the decline in bank robberies during the current recession. The reason: Wal-mart-sytle greetings: Since 1979 the average number of bank robberies in the U.S. has been a dismaying 11 per 100...

I wasn't going to get one this year. I am in my forties and started getting mammograms in my thirties, thanks to a family history of cancer. But it's been awhile and I was going to put it off this year but I figure with all that is going on in the...

Amy Alkon, author of I See Rude People: One woman's battle to beat some manners into impolite society, has an op-ed out in the LA Times about screaming kids on planes: More and more, we're all victims of these many small muggings every day. Our perp...

I was just reading about Black Friday on CNBC and it seems that many people have less interest in shopping that day: A survey by Persuadable Research for online shopping guide dealnews.com, however, found just 46 percent of respondents plan to...