Running in Place Long gone are the days of sleeping until noon, lifeguarding and hanging out at the city park with a gang of friends that come with being a teenager in the midst of summer. But do  

Sun-Kissed Whatever that vitamin is that we get from the sun, I admit I need it. There's nothing better in my book than a robin-egg blue sky and blazing sunshine. Of course what you need to go wi  

Dirty Denim Saturday my friend and former co-worker, Jenny, invited me to go dancing. It was to be a girls' night out with a journey to the new club Clau on Sycamore Street, where she was on the   

Perfect Endings Lately I've taken to the idea that endings should be short and sweet. For instance, I like to end my e-mails with "Ciao!" My phone conversations are typically cellular and, since   

That's a Lot of Roaches I still remember the first time I fell head over heels for someone after moving to Cincinnati. It was way back in 1985 when I was a freshman in high school. My first frien  

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes Mary had a great idea for a romantic Friday this week: Tour the Contemporary Arts Center between 7 and 9 p.m. and then go out for a quick bite to eat after the dinner rush  

Landscape Study The new Cincinnati Wing at the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) in Eden Park has suffered just a tad from the whirlwind of excitement over the opening of the new Contemporary Arts Cent  

Oh, Canada! The first Saturday in June for me means a trip to Fergus, Ontario, for Gender Blender. It's a weekend coed Ultimate Frisbee tournament and campout about one hour southwest of Toronto.  

Butterflies Are Free Saturday, my friend Kristine and I decided to do something out of our usual routine and actually hang out in daylight without beers in our hand. So we headed to Krohn Conserv  

Taste Buds The average temperature for this time of year is upper 70s. It's not that we would know that by stepping outside or by looking at this week's forecast, but so the weather experts' aver  

Chain Reaction About a year ago, Shauna M. came up with the dining concept she calls Food Chain Cincinnati (foodchaincincinnati@yahoo.com). Every month she puts together a group of four to six st  

Tour De Force Everything has a season, and spring seems to be the season of love. This past weekend we loved our mothers, our grass loved the rain and Clifton loved 10 of its houses with the Clift  

Super Friends Last week was my friend Andrea's birthday. As part of the celebration activities, she decided to get a bunch of her friends together for Saturday afternoon's Reds game at the Great   

Space Invaders There's an unspoken rule about comfort zones when it comes to personal space, wouldn't you agree? I can't tell you exactly what it is. I just know when someone has overstepped the   

Crack Talk Every year around mid-April I take my mom out for her birthday dinner. This year it was her turn to pick the restaurant, which always scares me. We have totally different taste in res