You're mad as hell and not going to take it anymore? We want to hear about it. This is your chance to mouth off -- about your neighbor, PTA, property taxes, personal trainer (you should be so lucky) -- without losing your cover as a good suburbanite.

By Linda Keenan

Suburban Pocket Translator. You won't find one at the Rosetta Stone kiosk at the mall. When I left the city to become a new homeowner, a new parent, and a newly underemployed person, I had to learn the mores, culture and language of my newly adopted people: the Suburbanites. Here's a sample of my recently revised lexicon...read more

By Steve Levenstein

We all have our little secrets that make life easier and today I'm spilling one of mine. I don't really mind, even though doing so lessens the secrecy factor, but hey -- if you're here reading this post (and Burbia in general) I figure now we're even-steven. It's Value Village. Not so much the store itself but the basic concept, and while there may be other stores out there that work on the same business model I'm not all that familiar with...read more

You're in a relationship and you like some things about it but not so much other things. You want to communicate -- honesty is always best, right? -- but you're not sure how without creating tension, maybe threatening the relationship. So what do you do? How do you find the right balance? Here's one guy's approach. A guy apparently reaching the point where he simply has to confess -- in this case about a minor difference in musical tastes with his girlfriend...read more