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Trying on jeans is one of your all-time least favorite activities, right after going to the gynecologist, and cleaning your bathtub.

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No one wants to know how your day is. I repeat: no one cares about your day. Nor does anyone care “how it’s going” or “what’s up?”

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For a 40th year, Lake Superior State University has celebrated its freezing New Year in Michigan by issuing a list of “banished” words that we misuse or overuse. Pretty annoying. But if not “user-friendly” (they banished that phrase in 1984), the list does have its uses.

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It’s a Girl’s (kind of f*cked up) World!

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Enjoy that inevitable, incurable addiction to Cinnabon.

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So I’d just survived a shooting, and there was something oddly comforting about being back in the midst of all of those awful memories.

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I firmly believe that there are blatant lies in the form of clearance tags, all over any given women’s clothing store.

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A kiosk salesman made eye contact with us and motioned us over. As a human being, it’s a natural reaction to walk toward someone who is beckoning.