Circle de Luz, an antidote to depression
This opening sentence to a new report grabbed my attention this weekend- Adolescent girls who had a serious school failure by the 12th grade — being expelled, suspended or dropping […]
Bikini is a State of Mind
The Bikini Team is a group of women in my town, who are now over 50, who have been friends for decades and meet throughout the summer at the local swimming […]
I love that little face.
Talk to me long enough about life, and I’ll recommend Anne Lamott’s non-fiction to you. Got a new baby that you don’t know what to do with it (and think that […]
For Charlotte area readers
I met a dynamic photographer last month who is working on an interesting project in our area. Consider it an artsy, local version of learning how to look good naked! Here is what […]
You have never been more beautiful…
than when you are talking to your daughter. I spoke yesterday at the Alpha Delta Kappa Southeastern Region Conference in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Alpha Delta Kappa is an organization for women educators. […]
I bet you're worried.
I was worried. I was worried about vaginas. So begins Eve Ensler’s battle cry for women in The Vagina Monologues. And so begins her talk at TED. I’ve talked about […]
100 New Book Classics
Oh, I love Entertainment Weekly and their lists (seriously, the writers there have one of the coolest jobs in the world of writing). This recent list looked at the 100 […]
This is what war does…
One of my former students is a wonderful woman named Sarah Durnbaugh. Sarah is a breath of fresh air. Steady, committed, brilliant, compassionate, funny, observant- just as fine as they come. […]
Can't Buy My Love
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa0iivtTclM] Jean Kilbourne has been a media literacy activist for decades. Can’t Buy My Love was orignally published as Deadly Persuasion and is one of the books that I am […]
Make more time for yourself
Just worked my way through the July issue of Real Simple and loved an article by Elizabeth Fenner on creating more free time in one’s schedule (loved it so much, […]
