Forum: Your Stories

Facebook isn't a community of 500 million users. It is made up of millions of social networks that don't ever talk to one another. So, I never hear...

We live in Westchester County, 40 minutes north of Manhattan. My sister is divorced with two kids, with her oldest a freshman at Fordham. This...

There is a Disney show, iCarly, that my kids watch and apparently they refer to homeless people as 'hoboes'. I thought that term had long left the...

We moved into a new home this Spring and I noticed after we moved in some nail hole pops in our master closet ceiling. No sign of water damage but...

We could have used an ice dam in our house five years ago during our then ten year old's sleep over. It was wicked cold that night and our basement...

Bear Attack - Fond Childhood Memory I went to a summer camp as a kid in the Adirondacks near Lake Placid, NY and we often went on multi-day...

Barney Frank is pushing hard for some kind of framework to be applied toward the legalization of Internet Gambling, an industry that some estimate...

Senators Arlen Specter (D-PA) is out and Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark) is certainly in trouble after failing to win a 50% majority. Many pundits believe...

A few years ago, my wife was about two months pregnant and had horrible morning sickness. She got pulled over by a cop doing 50 in a 35mph zone. She...

Now that BP is proudly announcing that somehow a 4 inch diameter pipe is containing 'most' of the oil leakage, the big question is what will they...

When I was a young woman, I very briefly worked for a luxury car company. I had never worked in the car business before, and was totally unprepared...

I am a woman in my 40s who decided to finally go to college and get my degree. I am a senior now and am in my last year. About 4 months ago, I...

A young man that works for me calls me last Friday and tells me that he can't come in for work due to an illness. I was cool with that and didn't...

According to a Wall Street Journal/NBC nationwide poll over last weekend, 60% of respondents support more oil drilling, even though Florida and...

I have an aunt and uncle in their 80s, though they look and act like late 60s. They were in town visiting my family and we all went out to dinner and...

SlickWilly's great story reminded me of a problem I had on my deck two years ago. I too find a surprise in my grill - a bird's nest. We had just...

About a year ago, I was working as a brand manager for a product line my company sells. I had a great mentor boss who had championed my career for...

This is a story about my mother's battle with cancer. When she realized that she had to shave her head for the Chemo treatments, she hemmed and hawed...

I live in a small town and I try to jog a few times a week. On my street is a black lab that is penned in by an electronic fence, but every time I...

My son comes home from school one day and announces that he wants to go see Owl City. Apparently, his best buddy's older sister was turning them onto...