Gross eating habits are a dealbreaker. Photograph by: Photos.com, Besotted with my brand-new beau, I was understandably thrilled when we were invited, together, to a dinner party. Until he began to slurp his soup, that is, and then to make astonishing chomping and smacking sounds as he chewed his way through his chicken, sucked down…

Yeah, What Were You Thinking? (Spring Break Read-a-thon, Installment I) Considering how I’ve had books on the brain (but no time to read them), I thought that Spring Break would be a good time to catch up on all that reading I’ve been missing. A trip to the local library turned up a couple of interesting…