I'm taking the whole week off in an effort to find things to be grateful about. I'm trying to say that this isn't for me the most wonderful time of the year, at least not yet, and that I'm desperately trying to find, to buy, to steal some perspective...

Interesting and sad: As an anorexic teenager, I never went anywhere without the slogan "nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" written in a notebook or on my hand. I had found the words in a women's magazine, along with yet another editorial designed...

Simplistic, but I think truthful assertion, which I'm allowing myself to make since I'm under the weather and incredibly busy: the health care debate in the United States Senate isn't about about health care, but about America and its identity

The fact that so many are willing to jump on Palin and to accept sexist attacks on her by using stereotypical refrains such as "she deserves it," "she did it to herself," "she objectified herself so others are allowed to do the same," "she is ripping...

As France is wondering whether it should be proud of the way it qualified for the World Cup (Soccer, football), it got me thinking whether the United States would be tormented by such a question and agonized over the fact that it got through a major...