Contributor: Pat Fortunato

As a writer, editor, and book packager, Pat Fortunato has worked with publishers such as Simon & Schuster, Random House and Harper Collins. Her company, Mega-Books, produced Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys and Bobbsey Twins and many other series, fiction and nonfiction. Before Mega, Pat produced “Lucky Day”, a syndicated newspaper feature for children, edited The Electric Company Magazine for Children’s Television Workshop, and created Muppet Magazine for Jim Hensen. Her books include The Official Kids’ Survival Kit, When We Were Young: An Album of Stars, and All Around the Construction Site, coming out this spring. Pat writes the “Laugh Lines” feature for Woman Around Town and has a humor blog for women: ICANTBELIEVEIMNOTBITTER.com.

The way to someone’s heart is through their stomach and, perhaps, a heart-shaped meatloaf. At least on Valentine’s Day it may be. Whatever the shape, meatloaf is the ultimate comfort food.

When Did Everything Change? Some say it was the Vietnam War, when we stopped believing a single word our governmentsaid, including “and” and “the.”  Maybe it was when we started calling love affairs “relationships,” thereby sanitizing…

If this were an Olympic event, Americans would never win a single medal, and Italians would take home the gold every single time. They did, after all, come up with the saying-—and practice it whenever…

My Teeth Are Now in Style— And Maybe Yours Are Too! Every damn thing gets a chance to be the new hot thing, and right now it’s quirky teeth—you heard me, people, quirky teeth. The fashion world and…