Keeping or changing your maiden name is such a sensitive topic that it's hard to know when the appropriate time is to inform everyone. Do you tell them all at one go, or would you tell each person separately? Here are a couple of polite ways you can share the news. Tread carefully with reception announcements. Getting announced when you're coming into your reception is a good way to let people Read more

We're happy to present this story from one of our favorite sites, The Good Men Project. Clarisse Thorn sees nothing new in eroticized images of male dominance and violence, but she sees plenty that's thought-provoking. Much is being made of the highly successful S&M erotica novel 50 Shades of Grey. People are blaming feminism for making women into submissives, blaming feminism for preventing Read more

Almost four years after Sarah Palin told Katie Couric she couldn't recall the specific newspapers she reads, the two are going head to head again. This morning, Sarah and Katie are hosting rival morning shows. Liberal-media critic Sarah is this morning's guest host on NBC's Today, while longtime Today show host Katie is cohosting ABC's Good Morning America all week. No, this is not a leftover Read more

The West Wing lovers, rejoice — Aaron Sorkin is coming back to TV with another politically charged drama, but this time he's focusing on the lives of those who cover politics. In the first trailer for the HBO series The Newsroom, we meet Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels), a TV journalist who's known for being vanilla ("the Jay Leno of news anchors," as a detractor says). When he breaks his neutral Read more

We're thrilled to present this smart LearnVest story here on Savvy! We wish we could mandate that all bosses go to boss school. Or that the ones who did get management training absorbed everything they were taught. Fact is, there are a lot of bad bosses running amok out there, and most don’t even know that they’re the bane of your existence. But the good news is, if you’re stuck under the Read more

Text messaging can be a tricky world to navigate; ignoring real life for the digital can cause offense, while failing to respond to a text may leave others furious. Naturally, the experts in etiquette at the Emily Post Institute have a guide for keeping the tech-savvy public polite in their texting. Here's what you need to know to text with care. Don't text when you wouldn't call — As the Read more

Well, here's an exciting first: Michelle Obama has inked a deal to write her own book about healthy eating. The first lady's new tome will touch on the benefits of healthy eating, the story behind the White House South Lawn garden she helped build, and her family's favorite healthy recipes. Obama didn't take an advance for the currently-untitled book, scheduled to drop April 2012; rather, Read more

We're thrilled to present this smart Kiplinger story here on Savvy! Political theater over whether or not to extend the 2% payroll tax holiday has overshadowed the fact that most workers can do more to reduce the amount of tax withheld from their paychecks than anything cooked up in Washington. The power-to-the-people ploy? Using a W-4 form to put an end to overwithholding from your paychecks. Read more

Chelsea Clinton sat down with Brian Williams on his nightly Rock Center show to explain why she's leaving behind her "deliberately private life" for a journalism career. But before she got personal last night, Chelsea reported on former-educator Annette Dove, who has committed her life to helping impoverished children in Pine Bluff, Arkansas with hot food, tutoring, and someone to talk to. Read more