“I’m a feminist because everything I have (my rights, my education, my home, my safety) I owe to the women who fought before me. I did not get these rights because men had an attack of con...Read More >
My work: inspires donors to support programs that serve individuals, families and communities going through a difficult time in their life.
My favorite possession: faded Guess jeans I wore througho...Read More >
Tim and Neil are original for many reasons, but the most important isn’t because of their collection of more than 7,000 Santa Claus figurines, or because Tim is the founder of The Krawl in Plaza...Read More >
Every Thursday afternoon, you could find Hazel and Violet Edwards, single sisters in their 50s, sitting in Dr. MacDonald’s small downtown office. Once a week, the optometrist traveled from a ...Read More >
Writing a romance novel can be hard.
Very hard.
Not actually hard like a slow, throbbing, erect dragon waiting to release its masculine fire inside you, but hard like difficult.
This is espec...Read More >
Back in college, I lived on a steady diet of frozen yogurt, falafel, and Simone de Beauvoir. She was my heroine, and her book The Second Sex was my Bible. I also read Germaine Greer and many obscure F...Read More >
By the ripe age of 21, every woman should be able to undo their own bra. As young girls fumbling our way through puberty, we are handed down an age-old technique for bra removal. This little behind...Read More >
In 1965, Dominican diplomat, race car driver, and general man about town Porfirio Rubirosa married his fifth wife, French actress Odile Rodin. He was a young 56. She was a mature 19. When interviewi...Read More >
First, some info:
Latinos have the highest drop-out rate of all racial and ethnic groups.
Adolescent girls who had a serious school failure (like dropping out) are more likely ...Read More >
I've been running for so long, I don't know what to do with myself when I don't have a jam-packed schedule or syllabus in front of me. And, while everyone around me is telling me to take adv...Read More >
It’s been a year and seven months since I said goodbye. The memory of that rainy night still etched in my mind like a sad movie. Like 7 Pounds with Will Smith, one of my father’s...Read More >
Honestly I try to write about only things I know, which this isn’t really one of them. However, there’s so much going on with it that I feel I need some type of opinion about it. I...Read More >