— My mum doesn’t have a computer or a smartphone. She doesn’t have the Internet.  I offered to buy her an iPhone once, but it sent her into a panic. This means that if I want to share photos of the kids with her I have to print them and mail them. Some live inside the 50-odd frames scattered around her quaint little beachside house, but most surely live in boxes under the bed. But one thing my mum does have is something all of us want – she’s happy. She has peace of mind and hardly a care in the world. When I think about it, she’s been this way for…

Amanda Magee first met her now-husband Sean five years ago while working at the department store Belk in Mooresville, North Carolina. Sean was there buying cologne and the two got to talking. Sparks flew right off the bat. “I had never felt that before,” Amanda told HuffPost. “There was just something about him. I don’t say it to sound mushy and hopelessly romantic, but it was unlike anything I had ever experienced.” Amanda wanted to ask for his number but decided against it. She did, however, hold onto a receipt with Sean’s name on it, hoping their paths might cross again. Huff Post is hitting the road this fall to…

Marjan Apostolovic/Shutterstock Despite what you see in romantic comedies, it takes more than a movie marathon with friends and a big tub of Ben and Jerry’s to truly get over a breakup. And while all breakups are heart-crushing, there’s one type that science has proven to be the most distressing of all. According to a new study from Cornell University, published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the most hurtful breakup comes from being dumped for someone else—scientifically coined as “comparative rejection.” Apparently, out of the many possible reasons to leave a relationship, being traded for someone else hurts more than partners leaving to “take time for themselves,” because…

Social media dominates life in the twenty-first century. Rich or poor, city-slicker or hillbilly, Left Coast dweller or red-state denizen of the heartland, each of us (or at least anyone who has not tried to remove himself from ‘the grid’) likely owns a smartphone or computer that can access news and information from a vast digital network connecting millions of users who communicate with each other on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat. In a matter of seconds, we can plug into the grid and watch videos, comment on posts, follow trends in the news, or simply track the life and times of friends and family. It…

The summer travel season is upon us and that means families will be hitting the road.  If you have children, then your trip will be nothing like your romantic trip to the all inclusive resort where you had two massages per day and stayed hydrated on coconuts and Heineken.  Rather than fruity drinks and tropical oils, you can expect sour milk in a sippy cup and an ammonia backpack that makes your eyes water when you open it to find that water balloon diaper you stuffed there ten hours ago in the museum.  Forget the romantic dinners and the walks along the beach.  You will enjoy left over yogurt puffs…