OMG, this list is, like, sooo amazing! Literally. (Not).

If that sentence made your head want to explode, you're in good company. Researchers at the University of Oxford have compiled a list of the Top 10 Most Irritating Expressions in the English language. You think it's annoying when someone starts...

On Saturday, I had the chance to sit in on a lecture delivered by Oprah's cardiologist, Annabelle Volgman, MD. As Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Director of the Rush University Medical Center Heart Center for Women, Volgman knows women's tickers, and as she addressed our group of...

Last month, I wrote about the link between Jewish women and eating disorders just before participating in a series of Jewish Women International's Brain Power for Girl Power Think Tanks in Chicago and Detroit. The conferences took an intergenerational approach to solving the problems girls of all religions...

My cousin, Rob, recently visited my aunt at her New England home. She asked him a seemingly simple favor: Could he help with some yard work? But when it comes to Jewish mothers, there are no simple questions -- anyone who's ever had their mom look them up and down,...

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to interview Jillian Michaels, a woman whose abs are sharp enough to shave my husband's face and who has, in the past, forced Biggest Loser contestants to bench press her. I'll admit, considering the persona put...

This picture might give you a mouthgasm...but could it give you an eating disorder, too?

One of the first food-documenting blogs I ever read was For the Love of Oats. I remember thinking, "How on earth does this woman manage to make PB&J...

I rarely, if ever, write about politics -here, or anywhere. You are far more likely to read a story of mine in Redbook about the first successful U.S. ovary transplant or an article in Women's Health about some wacky sexperimentation my husband and I undertook in the name...

When AAA tells you you've used up all of your allotted emergency rescues, you know it's time to get a new car.

When Chicago's finest boot your car for $1300 in unpaid parking tickets, you know it's time to get a new car.

When your key has been stuck...

I don't know what you all were doing last Saturday at 3pm, but me? I was surrounded by hundreds of half-naked men wearing teeny little bikini briefs, drinking giant piña coladas and dancing to techno music.

That's right -- I headed back to my old hood, Boystown, for the annual...

A single gallon of gas in Chicago currently costs most than a sandwich, chips and a Coke. A ticket to fly -- coach! -- to my brother in LA is over $400. Money is tight. People are canceling Netflix, cutting coupons and pinching pennies.

It all makes me wonder: What's...

I used to write from a Caribou Coffee located in a strip mall that was notorious for booting cars. Despite signs on the doors of every shop in site screaming "Do not park in the middle of the lot - YOU WILL BE BOOTED!", people would, almost purposefully, avoid the...

The story of an unexpected friendship between two women -- one obese, the other anorexic.

That's the one-sentence synopsis of the newly released movie, disFigured, which opens up with a group of overweight women who belong to a hardcore Fat Acceptance Group in Venice Beach, Calif. Women of various sizes...

Pardon any smearing in this blog but I can't stop drooling over news/photos of the most insanely amazing food product to ever be created and marketed:

The frosting shot.

It looks like this and tastes, I would imagine, like a mixture of heaven, Willy Wonka's imagination,...

A few weeks ago, I received the following email which made me snort Jelly Bellies out of my nose when I read it:

Leslie,

So, 52-year-old Macrida Patterson was innocently shopping at a Victoria's Secret in May of last year when BAM!ZOOM!BOP! a decorative metallic piece dislodged from the low-rise v-string, smacking her in the eye.

Now, she is suing. The thong has allegedly damaged her cornea.

All jokes about 52-year-olds in thongs causing...

In college, I thought I was so sassy walking around in my red ΔΓ sweatpants (go Delta Gamma!)

Years went by and I managed to bypass the luxury-slash-slutty allure of JUICY sweatpants, the word splashed across the buttocks of women old and young alike in a declaration...

"Did I mention, my leg is 44 inches from hip to toe, so basically, we're talkin' about 88 inches of therapy... wrapped around you, for the bargain price of three thousand dollars."

Who doesn't remember that insightful-in-a-perky-prostitute-way quote from Pretty Woman, as sugar-sweet Vivian (aka "What Do...

My. God.

Have you seen the new cover of Vanity Fair? Angelina Jolie, already commonly regarded as one of -- if not the -- most gorgeous women on earth, has hit a new level of other-worldliness. Huge, ocean-like eyes staring right at you. Impossibly pillowy red lips. Luminous skin....

I don't Wii. I don't even play computer solitaire. In fact, the last time I interfaced with a computer game, I was 12 and crushing on Mario from Super Mario Brothers (ooh, that mustache!)

But apparently, somewhere between Qbert and Legend of Zelda, these games became candy-colored, illustrated versions of...

Because everyone knows posing naked is the best way to gain status/earn respect/help push the women's movement forward, it's no surprise that the benevolent folks over at Time Out New York are jumping on the birthday suit trend and allowing readers to view (clothed) snapshots of everyday women and...