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I came across this infertility post today. In it, the author, Melissa Ford, questioned a Dear Abby column responding to a reader on the subject of financing infertility. Ford found Dear Abby’s response to be ignorant. The reader was asking for Abby’s thoughts on holding a fundraiser to raise money for infertility treatments. Personally I…

So, I whine. When I was a kid, my parents even had a name for my kvetching ways: “the wip.” As in, I would pooch out my lower lip as far as possible (which in my case was rather astonishingly far) and pout, whinge and whine to express my childish frustrations. I’m a lot better…

They say confession is good for the soul. We’re going to find out, starting today, our first Failure Friday! Last Monday, Hillary debuted our new feature, “Moral Mondays“, honoring those who put their words into action and act in an outstanding ethical fashion. Well, that’s a great way to start the week – here’s a…

I had a conversation last night that really got me fired up. I was chatting with a friend of mine, and she mentioned an offhand comment her boss had made during a staff meeting. It irritated her and infuriated me. Her boss (in her 60’s and the head of the department), had mocked the solution…

Thanks again are due to our Beliefnet Entertainment Editor for this one. She emailed me the other day with the following ethical dilemma. While shopping with her fiance, she saw a well-to-do woman with two preteen daughters ‘forget’ to pay for a bunch of magazines at the bottom of their shopping cart. Says Dena: As…

Please don’t call child services after you read this story. So, I’m great with saying thank-you — I’m horrendous with a thank-you note. My poor mother tried her best, but sending out thank-you notes….well, it just never took. I dislike the sense of obligation that accompanies a gift or a good deed these days. A…

I have a friend I affectionately refer to as “the Thank-You Note Nazi.” No sooner does she return from a dinner party than she dispatches an elegant and exquisitely chosen card expressing the most effusive (and quite sincere, as far as I can tell) sentiments of gratitude for being included in the event, even if…

Sometimes a headline says it all. Or at least enough of it to make you mildly ill. Apparently, Ryan O’Neal freely admits to having accidentally propositioned his own offspring, estranged daughter Tatum O’Neal, during Farrah Fawcett’s funeral. Yuck. So much yuck I can’t begin to say “yuck” enough. Funeral etiquette may be tricky, but I…

Happy Moral Monday! This morning I wanted to share a story that warmed my heart when I read about it on NPR last week — a homeless man leaving millions to several non-profits, including NPR. When NPR’s Richard Siegel heard his station listing a funding credit in the name of Richard Walter’s estate, he was…

A friend who tells you you’ve got spinach in your teeth is a friend for life, but then there’s the stranger in line at the grocery store who reaches over and fixes your dangling bra strap (this has happened to me) — he/she becomes “that creepy stranger” for life. Technically, they’re doing the so-called right…
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