Growing Bolder Community

I'm not a parent (unless you count my furballs): But I know that someday I'd like to be. If I'd been born in a previous era, I most likely would be a parent already! The latest Census report says that the average age of a woman giving birth for the first time is 25.1 -- and that's the highest of all time.In fact, in 2009, more than 100,000 women over the age of 40 gave birth.For each...

What is Twitter? For me, Twitter is all about conversation. I don't use it as a micro blog, I think that concept is patently ridiculous. I do not need to know what Ashton Kutcher, or Ned Shmeckle in Idaho, for that matter, had for breakfast. I have always been a forum devotee, and Twitter can be considered an evolved forum, a real-time conversation shared by thousands of people. The thing that...

When we think about the phrase, “bless you”, what immediately comes to mind is that someone has probably sneezed and, for some reason, we believe that offering them this comment brings some relief to their allergies or head cold or whatever they’re suffering from. Come to think of it, I have no idea why this tradition was started. Perhaps it is designed to counteract any potential...