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Free Custom Poems For Your Loved One

Today, until 8pm, PayPal is creating free custom poems for Valentine’s day. After checking out the site, you can chat with a poet or fill out a form sharing a few details about your loved one– and then they’ll send you a custom poem! It’s an easy, sweet way to show someone you care. [Read More]

February 13th, 2014|You|

How I Coped With Being Duped Online

Before I launch into the details of this online dating disaster, I want to be clear: this is not a soppy story. Please put your Kleenex tissues away. This is instead a story of triumph; where a terrible dating experience turned into an experience that changed my life for the better.

I’ll start at the beginning. Two years ago, [Read More]

February 12th, 2014|You|

Love In The Tech Age, From A Sex And The City Writer

Cindy Chupack is a screenwriter who has won three Golden Globes and two Emmys for her work as a writer/executive producer of HBO’s Sex and the City and writer/co-executive producer of ABC’s Modern Family. Below, she shares her insights from her new comic memoir about marriage, “The Longest Date: Life as a Wife.”

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January 24th, 2014|You|

Banishing Siri From My Bedroom

Every year we get the opportunity to wipe the slate clean and start a new. Many of us make resolutions to lose weight, pay off debt or lead a healthy lifestyle. My goal this year is to reconnect with my husband and kick the other woman in our marriage to the curb. You may know her by the [Read More]

January 16th, 2014|You|

Giveaway: Free Phone Skin + Wrappz Review

In the nine months since I got my first smartphone, I think I can count on one hand the number of times it has left my hand or pocket for more than an hour or two. Yes, I know, that’s not very “Dot Complicated” of me, but it’s a reality of modern life. I like [Read More]

January 14th, 2014|You|

Don’t Let That New Years Fitness Goal Slip Away

Dear Resolutioners:

Congratulations on establishing new health and fitness goals for 2014! You’re about a week in . . .how is it going? Recently my spin instructor told our class to prepare for the upcoming onslaught of “resolutioners” but not to worry… the vast majority wouldn’t last six weeks. That got me thinking about why people lose sight of [Read More]

January 7th, 2014|You|

The Power Of Healing In Our Pockets

When I entered into recovery for my eating disorder right around the turn of the millennium, my phone was one of my greatest assets. If I got the urge to binge, I called a friend. If I struggled with eating a meal, I called a friend. If I felt scared and lonely, you guessed it: I called a [Read More]

December 13th, 2013|You|

Old Fashioned #Love And Match.Com Parties

I just got married. Unlike other, more social-media savvy couples, we did not assign a hashtag to our wedding. And even though I have many Twitter and Facebook connections, I didn’t post live updates of our special day online. My husband Eric actually doesn’t use Twitter, and he never plans on creating a Facebook profile. (Sorry, Randi!)

While Eric keeps [Read More]

December 4th, 2013|You|

Introducing DOT

Hi everyone!

I am absolutely thrilled to introduce you to an adorable, tech-savvy little girl named Dot. She is the star of my upcoming children’s picture book Dot, which goes on sale November 5th.

I was inspired to write Dot after talking with parents around the world. I found that although technology is making our [Read More]

October 11th, 2013|You|

The “Mommy Wars” Head Online

If we want to look at the ways technology has complicated our lives, it’s impact on motherhood would be a great place to begin. The Internet has become the new battleground of the longstanding Mommy Wars. And cyberbullying behavior between moms is a very real and serious issue today.

As Tracy Beckerman wrote in [Read More]

October 8th, 2013|You|