Where living an amazing life never gets old
She had us at the title, but Gail Konop Baker’s memoir about her year-long struggle with breast cancer is a must-read for all women, even those blessed not to have had their lives touched with the disease. In Cancer is a Bitch or I’d Rather Be Having a Midlife Crisis, Gail writes honestly about her…
Karen Karbo is the author of three novels (all New York Times “Notable Books”), two non-fiction titles and the Minerva Clark mystery series for middle grade readers, as well as a prolific journalist whose work you’ve probably read in The New York Times or magazines like Elle, Vogue, More and Self. I was thrilled to…
Fashion Week may have ended but you can keep style alive with Karen Karbo’s enlightening, empowering and just plain fun “The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World’s Most Elegant Woman.” Most biographies can get pretty dry, giving the blah blah blah chronological life story of a person, but Karen’s book is…
Her name is synonymous with fashion, and she may be the most influential woman in the field ever, but Coco Chanel was first a young girl named Gabrielle who lived in an orphanage and dreamed of achieving fame and fortune on the Parisian stage. She certainly was able to cross “fame” and “fortune” off her…
We have fond memories of waiting for the big September issue of “Seventeen” to come out when we were teenagers. Now it’s “Vogue” we look forward to, and we remember trying to balance the four pounder that took up our whole mailbox a couple of years ago. That September 2007 issue of “Vogue” was the…
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If ever a film represented the “Look good. Feel good. Do good.” philosophy, it’s this moving documentary about six volunteer American hairdressers who, funded by the U.S. beauty industry, opened a beauty school in post-Taliban Afghanistan. With a sympathetic but unflinching eye, filmmaker Liz Mermin reveals the women behind the burkas — including Fauzia who…
With the economy in such bad shape, teachers are being forced to use their own money to stock their classrooms. Help them and their students by donating school supplies to one of the following organizations: ILoveSchools.com gives teachers a place to post their wish lists so you can send them exactly what they need. DonorsChoose.org…
