Mining the Headlines

Sometime Friday or Saturday, a 6-1/2 ton defunct satellite will fall to Earth. No one has any clue as to where the estimated 26 pieces of the spacecraft that survive re-entry into the atmosphere will land-scattering harmlessly in the ocean or hitting your neighborhood on its 500-mile long path of impact. Read More

Chances are, you know someone like me who was sexually abused or even raped.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. As someone who has experienced first hand what sexual violence can do to a life, I make every effort to change societal attitudes on this vital topic. Read More

I was truly saddened to read the recent findings that showed more adolescent males are dying than ever. Most of the adolescent deaths stem from reckless behavior, whether car accidents or violence. Suicide was another major factor, accounting for a quarter to a third of all deaths in 10-24 year-old young men. Read More

You're exhausted, but having trouble sleeping. You keep getting one lousy cold after another. You feel like there's a heavy lid over your usual wellspring of happiness. You can't seem to function right and don't know why.

What's going on? Read More

It's always a pleasure for me to watch a woman at the top of her game-whether it's Serena Williams clocking a 129-mph serve or watching Kathryn Bigelow's acceptance speech at the 82nd Academy Awards after her historic win as the first woman to snag an Oscar for Best Director. (She was only the fourth woman ever nominated.) Read More

Papa John Phillips, of the iconic 60s band The Mamas and the Papas, liked to see himself as a man with no boundaries. Taboos, like incest, were meaningless to someone who considered himself a god, a power tripper fueled by ego and massive quantities of drugs. And his daughter Mackenzie was his victim, as she discloses in her recent book, High on Arrival. Read More

"Summertime, and the living is easy..." which George Gershwin wrote for the musical Porgy and Bess in 1935, is still the tune that comes to mind as I slip into a summertime state of mind-a gentle lullaby that is both somewhat melancholy and very comforting. Read More

Was Michael Jackson's death from coronary arrest the result of his lifestyle or from a broken heart? Read More

As I watch the daily news, I see constant reminders that women are still unconsciously living out old patriarchal myths. For instance, we've all watched political wives like Hillary Clinton, Silda Spitzer, Elizabeth Edwards, and Dina McGreevey stand by their men in some very uncomfortable situations. Read More

Remember that old Simon & Garfunkel tune-the "59th Street Bridge Song?" It starts off with "Slow down, you move too fast." It kicks down the cobble stones, says hi to lampposts, and watches the flowers growing. And ends with "Life, I love you, All is groovy."

When was the last time you were in love with life, moving slow enough to enjoy the flowers growing?

Often, women with hair loss issues come to L.A. to work with some of the hair pros here. After all, if you can’t get good-looking hair in Hollywood, where can you go! Read More