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Can Having Too Many Facebook Friends Ruin Your Social Life?
Filed under: Friends & Family, Tech, Netiquette It wasn't too long ago that admitting you had "online friends" lumped you in the same social group as porn fiends and friendless cat ladies. And yet...
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I Survived a Live Dating Auction -- Guess How Much I Sold For!
Filed under: Dating & Love, Friends & Family, First Person In theory, participating in a live dating auction to benefit the Dana Farber Cancer Institute is a wonderful thing to do. You raise...
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5 High-Tech Tricks My Mom Will Never Get
Filed under: Friends & Family, Tech, No Stupid Questions I'll admit it -- I've had a good life. I got lucky in the parental department: My mom and dad put the clothes on my back growing up, fed me...
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I Was the Lady Gaga of My Family, Always Showing My Sister Up
Filed under: Friends & Family, First Person I think my parents really wanted one son and one daughter. What other reason would they have had for egging on my adorableness with pigtails and lots of...
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Dadflix -- The Best (and Worst) Movies to Watch on Father's Day
Filed under: Humor, Friends & Family, Entertainment, Holidaze There are about a million different kinds of dads. There's your Clark Griswold type, who are always forcing you to, like, get outside...
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Swedish Royal Wedding Will Sadden Swedes -- And One Little Sister
Filed under: Dating & Love, Friends & Family, Celebrity, Weddings This weekend all of Sweden will come to a halt for the royal wedding of Crown Princess Queen Victoria, as she weds her commoner...
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When Making New Friends Feels A Lot Like Dating
Filed under: Friends & Family, First Person Of the 11 guests who recently got wasted at my apartment, I'd guess that approximately zero could tell you my sister's name. I doubt any would know if my...
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Leave Shiloh Alone -- I Cross-Dressed As a Kid and Turned Out Awesome
Filed under: Friends & Family, Celebrity, First Person A few weeks back, I was at a picnic with a bunch of married types who were passing around iPhones, showing "beat this" pictures of their...
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New Town, No Pals? Why It's Harder to Find a BFF As a Grown-Up
Filed under: Friends & Family, First Person I'm not an unfriendly person. I don't scowl at everyone who glances my way or talk the ear off anyone within a 10-foot radius. I don't bite. I don't...
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8 Pairs of Celebrity Best Buds Flying Under the Radar
Filed under: Friends & Family, Celebrity If you've ever been in a high school play, then you know why there are so many celebrities who forge their friendships on the set. There's the obvious case...
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'I Bad-mouthed My Mother-in-Law on a Blog -- Then She Found Out'
Filed under: Friends & Family, First Person I called it "Got MIL?" and in hindsight, posting it was not my most prudent move. It was an essay that discussed, at some discomfiting length, my...
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Your Man Has Meddling Parents -- Do You Get Involved or Not?
Filed under: Dating & Love, Friends & Family, Expert Advice If you've got a burning relationship question and a need for second opinions, then Guyspeak/Girlspeak is for you! Over at...
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Sorry, Middle and Youngest Kids -- Study Says Firstborns Are Smarter
Filed under: Friends & Family, News, Psych As if hand-me-downs and the fact that only three baby pictures of us exist, there's more bad news for younger siblings: A new study suggests that...
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America's Greeting Card Divide
Filed under: Humor, Dating & Love, Friends & Family Long, long ago, when there were only two kinds of Coke and nobody knew what a Kardashian was, buying a card for someone you loved was simple....
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Thanks to a Risky Cancer Treatment, Her Dad Attended Her Wedding
Filed under: Friends & Family, Weddings Eryn Holl's dad, Steve, was diagnosed with a brain tumor when she was in the middle of planning her wedding. The prognosis was devastating -- less than...
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Thirty Percent of Women Have Been Estranged From Their Moms
Filed under: Friends & Family, News Man! We thought "One True Thing" was just a movie! Little did we know, it was a way of life. In a survey conducted by 20th Century Fox as part of a promotion for...
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Study Says Girls Want to Talk to Their Dads About Sex -- Do You?
Filed under: Sex, Friends & Family, News While the task of delivering "The Talk" has typically fallen to the more precocious kids on the playground or our feminist, no-nonsense moms, a new study...
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Long-Distance Friendships -- Mission Impossible, or Just Really Tough?
Filed under: Friends & Family, First Person, Expert Advice I've lived in four different states in the last six years. Each time I've found myself in a new place, I've made three or four close...
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If You're Happy and You Know It, Thank Your Dad's Vasectomy
Filed under: Friends & Family, News, Psych Being an only child usually means tons of attention, never having to share a room, and rarely running out of hot water. But new research suggests there...
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Why I Turned My Mom's Phone Messages Into an iPhone App
Filed under: Humor, Friends & Family, First Person In spite of having caller ID, an answering machine with a screening feature, and eventually my name on the National Do Not Call List, for years I...
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