Basta! (or enough already with all that judgment)
Dear Celebrity Magazines, Oops! You did it again. With summer in full swing, the opportunities to engage in your favorite sport are rampant. And you’ve wasted no time partaking in […]
Find Something You Love
This piece was originally posted here on May 16, 2010. Here’s another truth that I share with students in my body image seminar: You have to find something you love. […]
Group Project: Aging Gracefully
A few weeks ago, I asked for suggestions for blog posts on Facebook. One of my best friends wrote, “How does one grow old gracefully? Because honestly, I am not […]
We are all just different kinds of pretty.
If given the chance to swivel my eyes around and see for sure, I am fairly certain that the hairs on my neck are raised. I am talking with a young […]
Have you lost weight?
“Have you lost weight?” She asks. She hasn’t seen me in a while. Not this calendar year. My dad was still hospitalized the last time I saw her if […]
A little self-awareness goes a long way.
This post has been slightly updated from a post that ran on May 2, 2010. I mentioned the other day that I have been reflecting on the absolutes that I […]
The world needs innovation not continuation.
Yesterday, I learned that a woman whom I really admire is retiring soon. I reached out to her to tell her what an inspiration she had been in my […]
The gift of loneliness, the reality of our village
A recent conversation reminded me of a moment back in the early days of parenting. For background, one of the big instructions we had been given by our adoption medicine […]
Steps to Confidence
Quick. What do you find beautiful? If you are like the hundreds of people that I have talked to over the years, you did not say tall, blond, and […]
How I figured out what I wanted to be when I grew up
Today’s post comes from a question I was asked on Facebook. How did I come to know what I wanted to be when I grew up? Was it opportunity or […]
