There's nothing like having a circle of women in your life. Like flowers and bandaids, they are indespensible....

Girlfriends don't always tell you that you're right, but they're usually honest. And they still love you, even when they don't agree with your choices.

Susan notes: I invite men everywhere to join women in making this world a safer, better, more peaceful place to be.

1.    Approach gender violence as a MEN'S issue involving men of all ages and socioeconomic, racial and ethnic backgrounds. View men not only as perpetrators or possible offenders, but as empowered bystanders who can confront abusive peers.

There are good deals.  And there are great deals.

Truth be told, most deals (good AND great), have become so commonplace that they’re almost a dime a dozen.

Everywhere you turn there’s someone offering something awesome at some stupidly low price.... sometimes even for free! (This isn't free, but it's such awesome value it's almost as good as free!)

Register here.

I took a walk in the park at the edge of a Canadian city just before Christmas.

In the middle of the suburban wilderness, I came across a lone deciduous tree, a stone's throw away from a nearby thicket.

Someone (Santa's elves perhaps?), had decorated it with Yuletide exuberance and a motley collection of bits and bobs.

Today is moving day.

My Mom Pinkie Patti leaves her home of 40 years to go into another kind of "home."

The kind you go to when you don't know where youi're going or what you're doing anymore. And she doesn't.