Ambition: Vice or Virtue?

I’m fascinated with ambition–and people’s reaction to other folks who want to succeed. Remember a few months back when Kate Gosselin was being criticized for…

Mating by Numbers

It’s the perennial question: What do men and women want in a spouse? Men are increasingly interested in an educated woman who is a good…

Beyond Comfortable

At the end of the first semester of my senior year at college, during the month of December, 2001, I was visiting with Tom, my…