"If You Have to Cry, Go Outside",  a book by Kelly Cutrone When someone first recommended this book to me, I said, “No, thanks.”  I had seen Kelly Cutrone on Bravo’s reality show and I thought, “The last thing I need is some barking, crazy reality star telling me how to get ahead. I don’t [...]

Don’t forget to tune in tomorrow, June 22, 2010, 1:00 pm EST, and listen to Melissa Silverstein, blogger at Women & Hollywood, host a Fem2.0 radio show about the entertainment industry and its relationship with breast implants and with plastic surgery generally. She will be joined by Command Trust Network founder Sybil Niden Goldrich, actress [...]

The next few days the thermometer will be up to 95°. I bet you re ready for the beach, or at least the pool on the rooftop of your building! Before that please check out our recommendations for the weekend. Reading Materials: Patricia Earnest Suter, Russell Earnest, and Corinne Earnest tell us the truth story [...]

A number of years ago, I had a part-time gig at an elementary school where I taught afterschool classes in art and film classics.  One warm June day, it was decided that the kids could spend thirty minutes in the playground.  As I watched a scene that was a combination of raw energy and mayhem, [...]

Dodai @Jezebel tell us that “It’s Time To Confront Our Fear Of The Aging Female Face”. Actress Harriet Walter has curated an exhibit at London’s National Theater called "Infinite Variety," which celebrates something we seldom see in magazines or advertising: "the beauty of the aging female face. "As Janice Turner asks in The Times Of [...]

Listen to my interview with Nora Shourd, mother of Sarah Shourd, one of three imprisoned hikers in Evin prison, Iran. For the past ten and a half months she’s been in solitary confinement in Evin prison, Iran. Before that she was traveling in Syria, Yemen and Ethiopia, writing about women in these cultures, struggling to [...]

Did you know that breast augmentation is the ultimate "women’s issue"? Implants can critically damage women’s health and personal finances. They are for sale based on questionable safety studies paid for by multi-million-dollar, male-dominated industry. They target the ultimate symbol of our femininity, our breasts. Read all about it in this award-winning Glamour magazine article. [...]

By Adam Zimmerman of AAUW Yes, you read that correctly. A couple of weeks before my bar mitzvah, my parents and I went to our rabbi’s home to discuss the big day. One of the honors for the bar mitzvah boy is that members of his family can get called up to read certain prayers [...]

We have a feeling that this weekend will be awesome. Hope you will enjoy it as much as we will do!! Reading Materials: Jessica Powers gives us the review for“Falling Apart in one piece: One Optimist’s Journey Through the Hell of Divorce”. How do people deal with a divorce? How they can handle every difficult [...]

I woke up Wednesday morning, checked the political news online, and breathed a very happy sigh of relief. It wasn’t that I had favored candidates who won, or that I was emotionally invested in any of the races. Rather, it was the fact that so many of the winners were women, and the press barely [...]