So Who Gets to Decide Who Is ‘Mom Enough’?
In my opinion, if you are doing your best and your child is OK, then you are mom enough. You don't have to prove it. You live it.
‘The Avengers’ heads to worldwide billion-dollar box office
The strong opening of "The Avengers" portends a good start to the summer movie season; summer movie attendance was 543 million last year, its lowest since 1997.
Junior Seau’s Death Brings Suicide Prevention into Focus
Seau was playing when I started watching football in 1993. He was an awesome linebacker and seemed like a really nice guy.
‘Fringe’ Ready to Say Goodbye
It's only by watching "Fringe" that I realized I have a fascination with alternate universes, entanglement, and consciousness.
Birth Control Debate Has a New Face: Desmond Hatchett
// May 19th, 2012
News of a Tennessee man who can’t afford child support for his 30 kids — yes, 30 — blazed across the Internet this week when Desmond Hatchett of Knoxville asked the court to give him a break on those payments.
Of course he can’t afford to pay for 30 kids. Who can, except for maybe the Duggars?
Hatchett...
So Who Gets to Decide Who Is ‘Mom Enough’?
// May 11th, 2012
Time Magazine’s latest cover is all the buzz on Facebook, Twitter, and well, everywhere today. It shows mom Jamie Lynne Grumet breastfeeding her nearly 4-year-old son, who is standing on a chair. Some have called it shocking. Others opine about whether this mom is setting her kid up for future embarrassment and...
‘The Avengers’ heads to worldwide billion-dollar box office
// May 6th, 2012
“The Avengers” is a family-friendly action movie set to break into the exclusive billion-dollar club, with its story of superheros coming together to save the world. The movie opened in the U.S. this weekend, with the strongest U.S. debut ever of $200.3 million. It had already opened in 52 international...
Junior Seau’s Death Brings Suicide Prevention into Focus
// May 2nd, 2012
I let out a gasp when I found out that NFL great Junior Seau died today. And I was quite saddened to hear he died from an apparent suicide.
Seau was playing when I started watching football in 1993. He was an awesome linebacker and seemed like a really nice guy. According to the news story, he is the eighth member...
‘Fringe’ Ready to Say Goodbye
// Apr 29th, 2012
Do Top Earners Work Harder Than Others?
// Apr 28th, 2012
“Do you think higher earners work harder?” was the question posed in The Wall Street Journal’s The Wealth Report blog recently. Robert Frank points to a new study that says leisure inequality has grown between high earners and low earners. Leisure inequality, in case you are wondering, is time spent...
The Hunger Games Speaks to Social Issues
// Mar 31st, 2012
The Hunger Games is expected to keep its post at the top of the box office this weekend. The Hunger Games took in $152.5 million in its opening weekend last week, bringing it in as the third-highest opening weekend ever and highest opening weekend for a non-sequel. The total for the first week stands at $189.9 million.
So...
Tiger Woods Poised for Redemption, But Reminders Remain
// Mar 31st, 2012
American loves redemption.
Yes, even as we have a case of Schadenfreude that causes us to feel good about things that go bad for others, gossip incessantly about celebrity divorces, and secretly — or not-so-secretly — revel in others’ falls from grace.
We hungrily lap up all the negative news about our celebrities,...
What Are We Going to Do About Trayvon Martin’s Death?
// Mar 22nd, 2012
Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee announced today he is stepping aside “temporarily” amid the furor over the handling of the shooting death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.
The man who shot the unarmed, defenseless 17-year-old Feb. 26 has not been arrested or charged. George Zimmerman apparently chased Martin...
Broncos Think Super Bowl with Manning, but Is That Realistic?
// Mar 22nd, 2012
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