“Let the Right One In,” an offbeat story of first love, is an against-the-grain choice for Valentine’s Day, vampires included.

This Valentine’s week at WVFC has featured both a soulful request for information about our sex lives from Our Bodies Ourselves and a glimpse of the Worst Date Ever contest from MyVeryWorstDate.com. Here’s an anonymous contribution that neatly covers (and maybe skewers) both topics.

From Billie Brown, some humorous advice on the proper presenting (and receiving) of Valentine’s Day flowers.

For many of us, the word “date” reminds us of nervous high-school moments, our first dinner with our eventual mate, that first time after a divorce we agreed to have [...]

Many of us remember the day we first ran across Our Bodies, Ourselves, as something of a revelation; perhaps you even picked up the more recent edition of the same [...]

I remember everything, or at least the things that matter. I remember every pore of his skin, the encysted bump he had on the back of his head, the way [...]

New Year’s resolutions are made and broken by most people soon after the list is made. It is often difficult to imagine how to make a resolution that will change [...]

We at WVFC were thrilled to discover an essential new resource and “neighbor” on the World Wide Web:  eCareDiary.com, an online community formed in late 2008 for those of us [...]

Sometimes it feels as if all the buzz in literature, especially poetry, is about youth. Who won the Yale Younger Poets Award? The XYZ Fellowship for Writers Under Thirty? That’s [...]

Thanks to Jane Campion’s new film, Bright Star, a lot more people are learning that John Keats, whose poems they slept through in high school, was once a rakish young [...]