According to their website, the Girl Effect is "the unique potential of 600 million adolescent girls to end poverty for themselves and the world." Watch this powerful video, then choose how to share it -- just click on one of the icons below to post it on your Facebook page, … [Read more...] about The Girl Effect
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reel life: “127 hours,” wilderness movies and luxury hotels
I love wilderness movies. If you know me at all, this will come as a shock to you since I’m a five-star hotel girl all the way and a where-are-we-eating-tonight New Yorker at heart despite living in San Diego for the past 12 years. I do not like hiking – the last real hike my … [Read more...] about reel life: “127 hours,” wilderness movies and luxury hotels
Reader Donna Agins Reviews “All Over the Map” by Laura Fraser
All Over the Map, Laura Fraser’s sequel to her bestselling book, An Italian Affair, takes the reader to many exotic locales including Paris, Samoa, Peru, the Amazon, Naples, Mexico and San Francisco. In each, she writes beautifully about the settings and the delicious foods and … [Read more...] about Reader Donna Agins Reviews “All Over the Map” by Laura Fraser
Emilie Tarrant Reviews “Normal People Don’t Live Like This” by Dylan Landis
Having read my fair share of books about running amok in 1970s New York, I knew Normal People Don’t Live Like This had a natural place on my shelves. It is the tale of Leah Levinson as she makes her way through high school into adulthood. Set on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, … [Read more...] about Emilie Tarrant Reviews “Normal People Don’t Live Like This” by Dylan Landis
Reader Donna Agins Reviews “Unfinished Business: One Man’s Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things” by Lee Kravitz
Have you ever done anything you regretted? Have you ever wished that you could go back in time and correct it? That is what the fascinating part memoir/part introspective journey, Unfinished Business, is about. Author Lee Kravitz was the uber busy editor-in-chief of Parade … [Read more...] about Reader Donna Agins Reviews “Unfinished Business: One Man’s Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things” by Lee Kravitz
Dr. Diana Hoppe on Aphrodisiacs at the Grocery Store: Foods that Can Put You in the Mood!
Dr. Diana Hoppe is a highly-respected Board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist in private practice in San Diego. She is also a popular speaker and has published numerous clinical trials in the field of women's health. She is the author of Healthy Sex Life, Healthy Life: … [Read more...] about Dr. Diana Hoppe on Aphrodisiacs at the Grocery Store: Foods that Can Put You in the Mood!
Guest Contributor Lisa Bernhard of The Stupid Cancer Show on Being a Young Breast Cancer Survivor
Lisa Bernhard is a TV, print and Web journalist, whose recent roles include on-air Entertainment Correspondent for the Fox News Channel and Deputy Editor of TV Guide. She currently writes about entertainment, new media and health for The New York Times and Self magazine, among … [Read more...] about Guest Contributor Lisa Bernhard of The Stupid Cancer Show on Being a Young Breast Cancer Survivor
Reader Judy Rowles Reviews “Swallow” by Tonya Plank
Since there are an almost infinite number of books and a finite amount of time in which to read them before I close my last chapter, I generally have certain “criteria” when picking a novel. I try to find books that have interesting plot lines and compelling characters. Unless … [Read more...] about Reader Judy Rowles Reviews “Swallow” by Tonya Plank