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When I got engaged in October, it was one of the happiest days of my life. I'd been seeing my fiance, Jody, for a long time, and I was thrilled that we were finally making things official.   Read More »

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Between the ages of 6 and 17, I doubt there was a single summer that I didn't spend some time on a boat. It's not that I had any particular love of boats or sailing.   Read More »

Smoke flooded my vision, making it nearly impossible to see anything that wasn't right in front of me. A device strapped to my face provided me with fresh, smoke-free air, but it never felt like   Read More »

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When you share living quarters with a man, you find yourself watching a lot of sports. Football, basketball, hockey, racing (both auto and horse), the occasional baseball game — all have made   Read More »

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In the roughly 18 months that I've worked on this series, I've tried my hand at everything from fashion modeling to kickboxing and from belly-dancing to race-car driving.   Read More »

Blood oozed down both sides of my mouth, leaving scarlet streaks on my pasty white face. My eyes were circled in black, framed by scraggly strands of my hair, which was loose and streaked with gray.   Read More »

You don't know the definition of fear until you've stood a few feet from the jaws of a ticked-off alligator with nothing between you and the hulking reptile but a piece of plastic and a few other   Read More »

Fish live a fairly undignified existence. In the best cases, they're put on display in tanks or bowls, in which they swim, futilely, for the amusement of gaping humans.   Read More »

Everybody's heard the story at least once. A woman — maybe your friend, or girlfriend or sister — is swimming or water-skiing. She's just tooling along, having a good old time, enjoying   Read More »

Because of my athletically-challenged nature, I've always stuck with hobbies that are fairly passive. Reading. Watching TV. Maybe a little painting. It's not that I'm lazy, or that I hate exercise.   Read More »

I learned to embrace air travel at an early age. By the time I was 5, my family had made three moves between Connecticut and Michigan.   Read More »

Strapless tops are complicated, right? I mean, without sleeves or straps, the top and bottom look exactly the same. It's perfectly understandable   Read More »

Driving has always terrified me. While most teens hotly anticipate their 16th birthdays, I dreaded mine. I didn't even enroll in driver's education   Read More »

I'm one of the few people you'll meet who will admit they can't dance. I know I'm a klutz on the dance floor — sort of a cross between Elaine   Read More »

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When I was a little girl in Michigan, my mother often took me to the local art museum, hoping, as good parents do, to instill some culture in me.   Read More »

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I'm a fairly superstitious person. I don't step on cracks in sidewalks. I throw salt over my shoulder when I spill it.   Read More »

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You know those big, floppy shoes that circus clowns wear? Surprisingly, they're quite comfortable. That's one of many things I learned Thursday night when I participated as a guest clown during a   Read More »

Normally, I wouldn't willingly walk toward the sound of a chainsaw. In fact, if horror films have taught me anything, it's to flee at the merest hint of all motorized tools.   Read More »

Amy Huff's job is literally child's play. The 26-year-old spends her days walking around Bridgeport Hospital's P.T. Barnum Pediatric Center, checking on the children and infants treated there,   Read More »

I'm not what you would call a tough woman. I've never been in a fight. I wouldn't even know what to do in a fight, except maybe scream for the police. Yet, I've always longed to be a butt-kicking   Read More »