Elaine Glusac

Rental engagement rings are (a) for people unsure about the proposal; (b) more evidence of society's throw-away sensibility; (c) an economical way of buying a ring. For all the ribbing...

For anyone who has ever thought fashion frivolous, Ilene Beckerman has a story. It's "Love, Loss and What I Wore" (Algonquin, $14.95), and it chronicles her life through the medium...

Captured with eyelids at half-mast, hair askew, your driver's license photo can haunt you through four years of snickering bar bouncers, incredulous store clerks and squinting state troopers. But there...

Porter Gale and Donna Murphy can persuade you to buy, but they'd rather persuade you to care. So the former advertising executives are undertaking what they are calling 2 Chicks,...

You may think of the past as fixed, but just as some believe that dreams are coded psychology, your memory changes with your state of mind. "Memories are just as...

Niagara Falls has long drawn daredevils yearning to take a thrilling plunge. Now those ready to take the marriage plunge can make the wild torrent their witness while aloft in...

Who is Anonymous, the author of "Primary Colors" (Random House, $24), the stinging bestselling novel with unmistakable similarities to the 1992 Clinton presidential quest? Many have suggested it's Dee Dee...

Seeking soul-searching quiet? Rev. Lauren Artress has resurrected the medieval practice of walking a spiral path, or labyrinth. "It's a meditation tool," says Artress, an Episcopal priest at Grace Cathedral...

When Amy Cahill and Chele Isaac say "Women Fly," they mean it metaphorically too. Three years ago the two Chicago artists attended an air show in Wisconsin and were struck...

Need direction? Time to toss the Ouija board aside and look within. Like tarot cards, SoulCards, a deck of 60 images with touch drawings by artist Deborah Koff-Chapin, can be...