My mom and I went to our favorite annual event yesterday – the Words Alive luncheon. Every year, this fantastic organization, which promotes literacy in so many important ways, invites two authors to speak to an ever-growing audience which makes me realize that San Diego has become a far more literary city than I gave…
I wasn’t planning to write about Jenny Craig again until next week but I was so shocked at my weigh-in this morning, I had to share with you.
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…
Susan and I had such a good time on our food tour of Chicago – it was one of the highlights of our surreal post-Oprah-taping days last September (shout-out to Evie Bernard)– that when we recently received a Living Social offer for a half-price food tour right here in San Diego, we couldn’t resist. So,…
This has been a very challenging year, to say the least. I know it’s early but, with our country crumbling around us, I’m trying to think of holiday gifts to give my nasty women friends to encourage them to keep resisting and persisting, no matter how exhausted they are. Because, as author Sandra Cisneros is…
