Where living an amazing life never gets old
Okay, moms, it’s time to take back the media. All our daughters — and sons, for that matter — see on TV, online, in magazines and ads are females being sexualized: girls in skimpy clothes, dumbing themselves down and shaking their booty to impress boys who aren’t worth the time of day. Aren’t those girls on…
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, email it to a friend…
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…
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 wines she enjoys. She soaks up local color, makes friends easily…
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, author…
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 magazine. He worked too hard, too long and too intensely at his…
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: What Your Libido Reveals About Your Life, and we’re privileged to have her…
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 others. Online, she is co-host and co-producer of The Stupid…
