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After her last trip to Afghanistan in November, author Masha Hamilton (one of our favorite authors – and people) decided it was time to give the women there a place to make their voices heard before it was too late. She created the Afghan Women’s Writing Project, which is filled with astonishing, eye-opening and very…
I know how many of you look forward to these boxes of books promotions but, unfortunately, I’m getting fewer actual books and more being sent to my Kindle. So this is likely to be the last one for a long time. Because I always get tons of orders and don’t think I have enough books…
There’s something about summer that just screams “BOOKS!” to me. I’ve gone through dozens to find you the best of the season and, because there are so many good ones, I’m going to extend this theme. For the next three weeks, I’ll be sending you one Summer Reading newsletter each week, filled with 10 must-read…
I was so lucky to meet so many great people on our trip to Australia with Oprah (yes, I love to casually fling those words around!) and it’s inspiring to follow what they’ve been doing since then. You may remember Cecelia Behar-Bush (left), who wrote a powerful guest post for us, from The Oprah Show…
I received the Little Mermaid Legacy Collection CD as a member of the Entertainment New Media Network. No further compensation was received and all opinions are my own. I would have sworn I first watched The Little Mermaid with my kids but since the movie is now celebrating its 25th anniversary, that means they…
A generation or two before Amy Winehouse, there was Janis Joplin. Both powerhouse singers died tragically at the age of 27 from substance abuse and, with the release of the eye-opening new documentary, Janis: Little Girl Blue, the comparisons are inevitable. But what’s actually most striking — and surprising — are their differences. I was…
The other night, as we were getting ready to go out, my husband asked me once again if I really needed everything in my purse – a word I use loosely since the bag I carry is closer in size to a small suitcase than to a dainty little handbag. Because my 50-year-old hormones were…
This powerful film about a college student whose parents send him to gay conversion therapy is a must-see, especially for those who still believe homosexuality is a choice – or that it is immoral. I’m going to make this a rant rather than a review in a minute but first let me give you…
