I just got back from a community talk called The Perils, Pitfalls, Perks and Pleasures of Online Dating. Unfortunately, what I assumed was going to be some sort of amusing reflection on one woman's online dating adventures actually turned out to be a...

Sharalyn Hartwell is a national journalist at Examiner.com covering all topics related to Gen Y. She kicked off a month-long series today called Gen Y Gives Thanks, a project focused on combating the negative stereotype that Gen Y is...

I made a job change recently, which seems to have garnered a bit of judgment from the outside. I went from working for a company at the top of the Fortune 100 list to a local news startup organization. Sure, lots of people leave cushy jobs to join...

I swear months will pass without a single date and as soon as I become preoccupied with work or a new project, they suddenly come crawling out of the woodwork. It's almost as if they can sense my waning emotional availability. Some people call this the...

My mom called me up the other day to tell me she had a ribbon on her head. Not the kind of ribbon you tie around your head, but that she literally had the shape of the breast cancer pink ribbon on the back of her head. Given the fact that she is bald...