I sat with a friend last night in the park (a friend who happens to be a guy I dated a gazilion years ago), and we talked about whether relationships of the romantic variety are or should be seen as necessary parts of a happy life or mere “icing” of an evolved, complete self. He…

Reports are spreading (the NY Daily News and ABC News so far) that “Charlie’s Angels” ’70s heartthrob Farrah Fawcett’s long struggle with cancer might be coming to an end.  News reports say that friends and family are gathering at her bedside, and that she’s been given the last rites by a Catholic priest. It’s always…

In the spirit of Valerie’s awesome Songs About Rain playlist, I thought it would be fun to compile a list of songs about morning.  Here are 5 to get us started–please add to this list! 1.  Brand New Day–Sting 2.  Morning Has Broken–Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam 3.  Good Morning Starshine–Oliver 4.  Angel of the Morning–Juice Newton…

Recently an article in New York magazine showed a room in a delicious shade of pink identified as “Baker-Millier pink.” A little Googling showed that this color–a sort of Pepto hue approximately the shade of the box at left–is also known as “drunk tank pink” and is often used in prisons to calm angry captives. Some studies have…

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