Because we’re working on our January issue (theme: “Lady Luck”), I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my own “lucky” charms, talismans, and rituals. One of my favorite lucky charms is a Happy Hoi Toi (Chinese god of fortune) figurine tha...

I’m always the first to own up to the fact that I’m a vain one, but it has less to do with the fact that I’m a woman and more to do with being human. I think men and women are equally vain, though we might demonstrate it in different ...

I love a list. Every year, before the New Year holiday, I make a list of resolutions that (sort of) correspond to the year (99 in 1999, 107 in 2007, and so on), trying to perfect the list each year. My reasoning is that my percentage of success is a ...