After spending several hours of my life that I will never get back immersing myself in it, I had to wonder: How did the Food Network become so popular? Apparently, I’m not the only one who pondered the query. According to a recent Pew Research Institute survey: “Water cooler talk once ...

She’s everywhere. Currently, she’s sitting atop the box office in her perfect pink dress and tasteful pink heels. She is, of course, the doll turned movable turned movie star turned absolute mogul. It’s her world, and we’re all just living in it. I speak, of course, of the one, the ...

I know you’ve heard of it. The thought of it has always intrigued me. And although I don’t know anyone personally who actually observes it, I must say that I absolutely love the idea of the phenomenon known as “Christmas in July.” Sure. Amazon and QVC and the like are having a field ...

It’s a well-known saying. We’ve heard it thousands of times over the years: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” This quote is attributed to a novelist named Margert Wolfe Hungerford. Never heard of her? Neither had I, so I did a little digging. According to a blurb on bing.com, ...

It never ceases to amaze me, how plain old despicable we humans are to one another, you know, just on general principle. I submit, as Exhibit A, a new phenomenon that I recently stumbled upon depicting brand-new ways to “hack” someone. I guess it’s a sad but apparently true reality ...

We are all creatures of habit. This I know and really, have written about on more than one occasion. It’s been approximately 943 times. OK fine, I’m exaggerating. I’m a humor columnist though, so it’s sort of a license to “borrow ideas,” you see? In fact, allow me to ...