It gets worse.

You've been betrayed by the banks, the investment firms, the government. You skimp and borrow and try to send your kids to the best college they can get into; or you work the night shift at some bar and put yourself through college; or you've got...

I'm in a relationship. Thought you may have heard.

Facebook serves a lot of purposes. It allows people to: reconnect with long lost friends, cyber-scout their pals' pals to see who is hot, and generally kill time better spent stroking clients, closing deals or scheduling play dates.

But what Facebook...

If you are interested in diet, health, raw foods, or any offshoot of the detox lifestyle, you must understand the beauty of simplicity. No matter what level of health you are coming from -- be it decades of raw or right off the hot dog cart--the quickest, most painless route...

If you have issues with your weight, getting on the scale can be a big deal. Even though it is a very simple act, and you weigh what you weigh regardless of whether you choose to look at it or not, it can be a very emotional experience. If you...

Many people decide to redefine their lives with the coming of the New Year. Whether you have just been let go from your job, have gained too much weight, or even just have a general sense that your life isn't what you want it to be, you decide that because...

Step One: Don't make your resolutions on January 1st!

It sounds counter to everything you've ever done, but maybe there's a reason we don't succeed at New Year's Resolutions. I hear from so many people who are frustrated because every year is the same. Why can't I lose the weight/quit...

Did you ever wonder whether you were living in someone's idea of a surrealist dystopia?

Come on, you know you have -- existing in a world where we civilly debate whether torture is acceptable; where superior powers invade and decimate at will under the banner of "freedom" or "justice;" where...

Aha!

In the Christian calendar, today is the Feast of the Epiphany, or, as I like to think of it, the feast of Aha!

It's the 12th Day of...

Ten years ago when I published Kosher Sex I realized that it was a book that had no natural constituency. Secular people would think they had nothing to learn from a religious person about sex, and religious people would find it inappropriate for a Rabbi to write a book on...

I spent 21 years of my life on a motorcycle. Okay, not exactly on a motorcycle, on many motorcycles. I rode big ones, small ones, green ones and tall ones, and I rode them many miles: hundreds of thousands, actually. I rode up and down mountains, through the desert, the...

You may not have heard of 24-year-old Nathan Runkle. Even if you haven't, you've probably seen the startling undercover images shot inside the California egg industry last year. Those were filmed by Nathan's organization, Mercy for Animals. Nathan started the group in 1999, when he was just 15 years...

The last few days of the year (the procrastinators among us hold off until the first week of January) is the time when most people sit down to formulate their New Year's Resolutions. I think the reason this beginning-of-year activity is so popular is that we are a nation that...

I forget sometimes. I need to be reminded. Many, many people don't think that gay people should be allowed to parent. I certainly was reminded of this on Election Day when the state of Arkansas passed a ballot initiative prohibiting gay and lesbian couples from adopting.

I think there...

I was so drawn to these women on the other side of the pond that I felt like sharing Friday nights with them. In Joanna Trollope's latest novel, Friday Nights (Bloomsbury, 2008), Eleanor, a retiree who lives alone, spots two younger women from her bay window: one a newly widowed...

At a holiday party a friend of mine told me that he is now working three times harder for half the pay. Welcome to 2009.

Just as greed in the corporate financial world devastated so many people when the bottom fell out of the markets, greed in the pharmaceutical, food...