This weekend I could not help thinking back to a time of basement rent parties. For a small fee, attendees could help the host with their upcoming rent, hear good music, eat some chicken wings and dance under a single blue light. “You Dropped A Bomb On Me,” by the Gap Band was one of […]

A few days after CNN’s Don Lemon admitted to being sexually abused as a child, news reports about Sugar Ray Leonard’s sexual abuse at the hands of a coach are surfacing. Leonard was sexually abused by his coach, the boxer reveals in an upcoming memoir “Big Fight.” At age 15, Leonard and another teenage fighter […]

If a man is offered a piece of stale bread for dinner, he’s probably not going to want to eat it.  If you were to then say, well, “stale bread is better than horse manure,” this won’t make the stale bread taste any better. When given the choice between bad food and horrible food, some […]

Designer Rachel Roy collaborated with pro-surfer Karina Petroni to create a shoe line comprised of 3 styles – one for every possible summer occasion. Combining their personal styles, the shoes are 100% beach chic, so expect piled-on patterns and easy espadrilles that can be worn from city to sand. Rachel Roy Debuts Fall 2011 Line […]

Moms are some of the busiest people alive! Taking care of the kids, the house, the dog and holding down your day job puts you in a constant multi-tasking mode. As a wife, mommy and a woman on the move, I don’t always have time for a hair salon visit, even when it’s relaxer time. […]

My mother is the greatest woman that I know or know of, yet I wouldn’t describe her as “strong”. I would describe her as clever, shrewd, and frequently outraged, intellectually curious and open to any and all possibilities. She is kind and she is beautiful, quick with her wit, slick with her tongue, among the […]