Louise Kiernan

A plea for help arrived via e-mail the other day. It was not my frequent correspondent from Nigeria, the consul who wants me to assist him in transferring large sums...

Anyone who thinks that ladies' night is about the ladies should consider this. There were no women in Kool & the Gang. What the gentlemen in the band were singing...

It's tempting to use Sheryl Crow's lyrics to examine her relationship with cyclist boyfriend Lance Armstrong. Is every day a winding road? Is he her favorite mistake? No, here's the...

Whatever you may believe about equality between the sexes, certain activities in life remain inescapably, undeniably male pursuits. These are pastimes so tethered to the Y chromosome that even when...

I didn't know to bring camp chairs. I didn't know I should sign up for snack duty or when it was appropriate to cheer. I didn't know that a coat...

The note appeared on the comment board at my local YMCA, a jolt of outrage amid the usual low-impact grumbling about the gym being too hot and the pool too...

Romance does not normally involve an 8-inch chef's knife. Not outside the world of S&M, anyway. But it appeared that more than margarita salt might be in the air at...

My primary contact with Dr. Laura Schlessinger has been in the back seat of a taxi. For some reason, the cabdrivers of Chicago seemed to hold Dr. Laura's radio program...

We know Katie Hnida's former coach at the University of Colorado didn't think she was much of a football player. "She was terrible, OK? . . . She couldn't kick...

The home improvement project begins with the simple desire to improve your home. The particular improvement you have in mind is fairly ambitious. Not as ambitious as the long-fantasized-about conversion...