• Jewels of the night
If there's anything that's guaranteed to send the women of Northeast Ohio into a tizzy, it's the arrival of a party invitation.

• Michelle Obama's election-night dress disappoints Kim Crow
It was while I was being lectured in a mall on what constitutes stylish footwear by a woman wearing bedroom slippers that I realized it: Fashion is like politics -- nearly everyone has an opinion about what's good and bad.

• Shopping incident teaches a lesson -- Kim Crow
I like to think that I tackle conflict head on, an Angelina Jolie or Buffy the Vampire Slayer type. Not so secretly, I consider myself one tough cookie. But the fact is that I may well be a baked good, but one more resembling a Moon Pie -- gooey and overly sweet.

• Beautiful victories
When Vera Kozlowski found out she that she had cancer, she cried.

• Resources for people touched by cancer in Greater Cleveland