Stop Cursing...and Start Living!

I knew I needed help when I cursed in front of Donny Osmond. It was a tense moment in the interview--I asked him to defend his rock opera about Mormonism--and I panicked. It's not that I was intimidated by Osmond's fame so much as I knew he had been working out a lot for a Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat video. Plus, I didn't know if Mormons had any special powers, the way Scientologists have with lawsuits.

Since I moved to New York City, I've found myself cursing in front of people I don't know and then worrying about whether...