By Rachel Ware I made a New Year’s Resolution this year to delete my Facebook account for the month of January. Freeing? Definitely. Difficult?  Embarrassingly, more than I expected. Eye-opening?  Absolutely. I’ve never been crazy about Facebook.  But, I am a product of my age. In college, I sought to convince our Dean of Students...

  By Trillia Newbell Last week I surveyed people in search for anyone who had completed their 2013 New Year’s resolution. I had intended to write a news story for my local paper featuring these resolution warriors.  I came up with one lady who had completed a trip she wanted to take and a friend...

By Rondi Lauterbach Sometimes I act bewitched, or at least superstitious. I live as if I’m under a curse. When I lose my favorite jacket, I don’t just retrace my steps to try to find it, I think, “Oh no, here we go again.”  My phone disappears next. Frantically searching every possible hiding place, I muse,...

By Christina Fox   “I just don’t know what to do.” I said to my husband. “I feel so helpless.” One of my boys has been going through something and I don’t know what to do to help him. I feel inadequate, helpless, and insufficient. And I don’t like it. One of my greatest struggles...

By Katie McCoy “There is a moral panic in America over young women’s sexuality and it’s been breathing new life into a very old idea.” So says Jessica Valenti, founder of Feministing.com and author of The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women. Dubbed the “poster-girl for third-wave feminism,” Valenti claims...

  By Katie Van Dyke My life has not at all turned out how I thought it would. In fact, where I am in life now is pretty much the complete opposite of what I had wanted and planned 10 years ago. I have no husband, no kids, and I work in a corporate office....