As a child growing up in Chicago, one of the first things I discovered about the city was that it had something called a library. The city was filled with them.

I've spent the better part of the last nine years trying to teach my children basic life skills like: be kind, respect others, share, don't push or shove, don't bully, and don't steal.

Divorce was relatively rare when I was growing up, but the divorced women I knew kept their married names until they remarried.

I read an article recently that Coca-Cola is going to do their part about the problem of obesity in the United States by increasing their advertising for diet drinks.