If you want your kids to be great money managers, you should start preparing them when they are still young. While most parents love to reward their children with gifts like money, they tend to forget teaching them on how to manage it. According to a report by the University of California, kids begin to […]
Flying can be difficult if you don’t get the right seat. Sometimes you have the baby alongside which makes it further challenging to survive the entire flight. You may get some suitcases and bags over you which may not fit properly in the airplane. There are some questions that a lot of people have when […]
A few nights ago I met up with an older journalist for cocktails. We sipped our drinks and talked about work, men, the usual subjects. Then she mentioned she’s going to New Orleans for a week with nine of her friends from college to build homes. “That’s so cool!” I exclaimed. “Oh, we’ve done a […]
I’ll admit it’s hard to complain when a waiter automatically puts the check in front of your date or when “women and children” are evacuated first from a sinking ship. But sometimes it gets really annoying when men assume certain things about women just because we’re women. Sure, these assumptions may apply to some of […]
We were lying side by side, both face deep in our iPhones—checking our email one last time before going to sleep, setting our alarm clocks for the next morning, basically saying goodbye to the day. I turned to him, his face lit by the tiny screen, and watched him scroll through his Facebook newsfeed. “Anything […]
My husband was always a little strange — but that’s par for the course in a marriage sometimes. Sure, he covered his face whenever he encountered the smell of bleach, and he took to maniacal cleaning rather than use poisons to eradicate a cockroach problem. He demanded we turned off the heat at night to […]
In retrospect, it was all inevitable. Not the details, like the time I grew so afraid of using the toilet that I urinated in cereal bowls in my apartment, or the time I collapsed outside a filling station in Sicily and told someone I couldn’t remember how to breathe. Those specific situations weren’t predictable, of […]
I was on the way to the hospital when he called to arrange our first date. Sobbing, I pressed “Ignore” and tried to steady my breathing. I wondered if I would live to take him up on his offer for coffee — I’d blurted out “I only drink tea,” and now, I wished I had […]
The controversy with the relationship between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles started from the beginning. Two of them officially came out as a couple after the tragic death of Princess Diana, but everyone was already suspecting that those two were together for a longer time. The public disliked Camilla from the start, most of […]
