Are catcalls harassment or no big deal? [What every girl needs to know about street harassment and how you can stop it]

Okay, watch this first. It will make your whole day. I promise! (If the video doesn’t show up in your reader or e-mail, click through) Do you remember the first time you were catcalled? I was in fifth grade, walking past the boys bathroom when a group of boys suddenly yelled (sung?) that line from …

An epic love story that will renew your faith in people: “Just because life is hard doesn’t mean it can’t be good” [The Hope and Steve Dezember Story]

I get to interview a lot of cool, funny, smart and amazing people for my job (true story: just interviewed a scientist whose research has shown that eating broccoli sprouts can help clean pollution out of your lungs!) but every once in a while I get to do an interview that goes straight to my …

Finding your happiness: The problem with dieting to get skinny, running to win and working only for money

“You see my happy shirt?” The little girl’s insistent face pressed nearly up to mine before I noticed her, so enthralled I was with  the book I was reading tonight at the library. Truth to be told I didn’t notice her shirt at all, at first, but rather her halo of little cornrow braids with …