Boosting your confidence
At book events, I am often asked how women can support one another in boosting confidence. I mentioned a few ideas in my suggestions for 2008 Resolutions (which Fighting Windmills […]
Blogging Naked
So, my to do list this morning started with “Blog Naked” which, fortunately since it is cold in our little cottage this morning, does not mean that I am blogging in the […]
The Precipice of a Beauty Revolution
When I started work on Hijas Americanas in early 2006, there wasn’t much talk of shaking up America’s beauty standard. I researched, interviewed wonderful, forthright women, and wrote while taking […]
Daisy Fuentes, Girls on the Run, Hijas Americanas, and Fitness Magazine
Here is a statistic from the Growing Up Latina survey that 521 women completed in support of the research for Hijas Americanas: 84% of respondents feel that women today are […]
Why learning to sew can help you love your body
In one of his essay-like chapters of Love is a Mix Tape (Crown), Rob Sheffield reflects on how Renee, his curvy wife, began to make her own clothes, […]
