Newsday's Advice

July 22, 2007

Looking for love in specialized places

Shoshanna Berman of Manhattan wasn't looking for any man when she visited an online dating Web site. She was looking for a very specific man.

July 22, 2007

Equine-assisted therapy makes sense

I am standing in a horse pen at Gold Rush Farms in Baiting Hallow, where the pickup trucks outnumber the Hummers, at least for now.

October 30, 2006

The painters / window washers / moving men are done and ready to leave. Do you TIP?

Sure, we all know the custom: Tip the cabbie, the waitress, the barber. And we generally agree on the math: 15 percent, once standard, is now pushing 20 percent.

October 16, 2006

Got the bad-boss blues?

Within the first month at her first sales job, Donna Flagg of Chelsea had had it with her supervisor.