Stress. We all experience it at some point. The biting, nagging, foreboding feeling that puts us on high alert. The associated exhaustion, guilt and suffering. Stress can make us want to do things we ...

I lived a placid childhood in an interior suburb of Houston, in a green neighborhood with an annual decorate-your-bicycle parade on the 4th of July. The summers were sweltering hot and spent outside, ...

In a society where long, shiny hair signals sex appeal and desirability, I am a woman with a bald spot. Worse, it is one of my own making: I tear out my hair, strand by strand, or sometimes in clumps.

The producer of a farting iPhone app is making a legal stink over another flatulence app in a looming trademark battle over the phrase, "pull my finger." A trademark dispute over the rights to the ...

The U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has finally handed down its decision in the closely-watched case of Fartman v. Pull My Finger Fred Originally decided in federal court in Chicago, the case is a ...

Pulling, twirling, plucking, twisting, tugging, or playing with your hair – are these all just harmless habits? It is reported that for an estimated 4% of the population, hair pulling is so much more ...

In a society where long, shiny hair signals sex appeal and desirability, I am a woman with a bald spot. Worse, it is one of my own making: I tear out my hair, strand by strand, or sometimes in clumps.

I follow the receptionist through the turquoise and white blowout bar past the counter where women perch sipping Bellinis while their hair is dying and their nails are drying. She seats me at a ...

When Toby Keith released his album Pull My Chain – his sixth studio work – on this day in 2001, he got the opportunity to do precisely what he wanted – talk about himself. Pull My Chain was Keith’s ...