I love a good challenge, and I was so psyched about Colleen Wainwright’s 50-day mission to raise $50,000 for WriteGirl — one of my favorite organizations — by her 50th birthday. Well, her birthday is September 13 and she’s already raised the money and will be shaving her head just as she promised she’d do…
Okay, I have read and listened and sat back and watched all the controversy regarding The Help. I, too, read the book when it first came out. My Mom sent it to me, and said she was interested to hear my perspective because I’m a white woman married to a black man. She explained that…
I love this song. I don’t really think it has anything to do with emptying the nest but since both of my kids are heading back to college this week, and since I’m already sad happy sad happy, it makes me weepy every time I hear it — which is often since I have it…
After the chaos caused by Hurricane Irene this weekend, it seems appropriate that today marks the sixth anniversary of New Orleans’ devastating Katrina. I’m lucky enough to live far away from both of these storms but, simply as a human being, I feel deeply for everyone affected. In solidarity with my East Coast friends and…
With countless books and movies sexualizing women and depicting graphic violence, why are so many people focusing their energies on firing away at The Help? The story takes place in 1960s’ Mississippi, where an idealistic young woman bands together with the maids to reveal how they’re really being treated by the Southern belle bosses who…
