If you have the misfortune to be heterosexual, as many of us do, you have enough on your plate just trying to bridge the divide on how differently men and women go about all things sexual. Women don't need the extra headache of watching their backs with their own gender....

Both hope and fear are great motivators, and they both have the capacity to promote growth in us, but hope creates space in the mind and heart. Fear, more often than not, restricts it.

Just think of how you feel in your own body when you're afraid - you tense...

To everyone who submitted a blog sharing why you'll vote for Obama: You blew me away. Thank you to each of you.

Here are the ten that moved me the most, listed in the order in which they were posted:

Citizenoftheworld
Susie 1776
CBOXX
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As McCain and Obama approach the finish line, I give you my blog to write why you'll vote for Obama.

Instead of posting a comment to my writing as you usually would, simply write your own thoughts on Obama and submit them. As the comments come...

Something special happened in my community last weekend, and I'm posting this as an invitation for other communities out there to consider doing something similar.

Over an earlier dinner, some men and women had been discussing the truly surreal selection and ascendance of Sarah Palin, when cinematographer, Philippe Cheng, said...

I've never felt more female than the day I gave birth to my daughter. And I have never felt more human than the day I stood with my neighbors and watched the Twin Towers across the street from our homes burn and fall.

I never thought I would be in...

It's heart wrenching to me that in this day and age, the human rights eloquence of a woman's right to choose still isn't fully embraced by the very gender it serves.

The right to choose is so fundamentally simple in its respect of each person's ability to protect and live...

August 3rd's New York Magazine cover story by Jonathan Van Meter was on "The NEW New Face" women are buying from their plastic surgeons and dermatologists.

His article highlights the surreal visuals we now associate with youth and beauty, and the procedures women undergo...

The same dynamic is at play in our national and private yearnings. We want the same illusion of moral constancy in our politicians as we do in our marriages.

But we inevitably find our leaders have feet of clay. And it's common for couples to not even know what's going...

Earlier this week I read a little snippet on Madonna and A-Rod in The New Yorker, and this morning came upon another article on Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook in the New York Times. Reading them revived a chain of memories, working backward from Eliot and Silda, to Bill and...

I was driving my 6th grade daughter to her last day of school this morning. It was 7:29.

She immediately turned the radio from NPR to the mainstream station she and all her friends listen to.

I love music and am one of those moms who sings along and...

So I was driving into Manhattan yesterday, approaching the Midtown Tunnel, minding my own business, and making my way past the barrage of billboards that thickens as you slow down. Actually, slow is an optimistic word here. Depending on the time of day, or funky traffic conditions, you could easily...

You know when NPR does its pledge drives and they entice you to give based on those NPR "driveway moments" when the story is so riveting you sit in your car until it's over? I was just sitting in my car, tearing up in hearing the generous bravery of Cleveland...

Grown daughters yearn to know how their mothers' sexuality informed them as women when they were at the most important crossroads of their lives. They want to know these things because they want to understand their mothers as women, and let that understanding flow over how they see themselves in...

It needs to start in the home. Our daughters' best defense against the skewed sexual saturation of our culture is for us to support them in the healthy development of their own sexuality.

As I wrote in "What Huff Post Women Had to Say" women still experience discomfort in...

Since the Relationship with Your Mother questionnaire draws such rich responses, this will be the first in a few posts teasing out some of its thicker themes, beginning with what women aged 20-88 referred to as the controlling/judgmental/martyring mother.

Here's a fairly benign sample...

While I was reading through the Huffington Post women's responses to my Physical Appearance questionnaire, I kept hearing Larry David's agent Jeff from Curb Your Enthusiasm saying, "It's just a big bowl of wrong."

It's wrong the unfair premium our culture places on women's physical appearance, and how it...

First of all, thank you to the women who wanted to express their realities and help other women by participating in the Women's Realities Study in response to my "Calling All Women" post. The study's open indefinitely, so anyone who's interested is welcome to jump...

I had to riff on "The First Pregnant Man" article, because, well, I just couldn't help myself.

Here's what veterans from the front lines had to say in my study in response to the question: If men got pregnant instead of women, how do you imagine...

You know what's shocking? That we are shocked, again and again, by what with some learned degree of certainty could have been predicted. "Upstanding" citizens in the public eye impacted by sex outside their marriages? Well, of course they are. Because we all are.

We desperately want to believe...