Blue Airheads and an even bluer tongue had me seriously considering scrubbing it with soap. Our first American Halloween raised a question I still can't shake: do we really need blue gummy bears to be happy?

Shouldn't the colleges be courting us? I stepped out for two minutes and came back to a ballroom of grown adults stampeding toward the head of admissions.

From the moment your child is born, they become a statistic. Milestone charts, an exclusive gymnastics "Gym A," and what no graph can measure.