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New Studies Show Odds Stacked Against Working Moms
Yesterday, the results of a Gallup, Inc. poll showed that just 27 percent of the world’s workers are employed full-time, with the figure in North America slightly higher (41 percent). According to the Wall Street Journal: In unveiling the new metric, Gallup chairman Jim Clifton described the effort as a way to count the number of [...]
Curves Wants To Get You Fit – For Free
If you’ve been putting off your New Year’s “get fit” resolution, here’s one less excuse to hit the gym – free membership to Curves. The female-centric fitness center has partnered with National Women’s Health Week, which is observed May 13 – 19, 2012. To encourage women to get fit, they’re committing to giving away one million [...]
Author Spotlight: Jessica Caris, Breeding in Captivity
Author Jessica Caris is as successful as a careerwoman can be: she is the founder of Caris Communications (www.cariscommunications.com, a consultancy that provides writing, publicity, public relations and communications services. A nationally acclaimed and award-winning public relations executive and writer, Jessica has worked with many publicly-traded and Fortune 100 companies, including New York Life, Wyeth Pharmaceutical, [...]
Breeding in Captivity is a must for your summer reading list
Most novels (and films) offer me an escape from whatever daily tasks I’ve been stalling on completing – laundry, dinner, or other housework. When I’m feeling particularly stressed out – with work, relationships, motherhood, or bills, I love finding, and losing myself in, novels and films with heroines who have it all – Carrie Bradshaw’s [...]
This Mother’s Day, Just Say No
A few years ago, I started having some “women’s problems.” After the scariest series of misdiagnoses that left me wondering what the hell the Florida health system was all about, I was told that I’d likely have a hard time with any pregnancies because of uterine fibroids and unusual vascularization that was causing me tremendous [...]
Keep Your Mother’s Day Flowers Looking Fresh
I love getting flowers – for special occasions, or just as a surprise on a bad day. To date, the best bouquet I ever received was on a day that I’d been passed over for a promotion by a colleague whose “BFF” was the manager in charge of the decision-making. Out of the blue, I [...]
What Arizona’s HB 2800 REALLY Means For Arizonans
Following up on my letter to Arizona’s Governor Brewer, I received several emails and comments from readers who pointed out the obvious – Planned Parenthood offers services that extend far beyond abortions. Just how many services and what percentages these services make up set me back to the drawing board for this post, which outlines [...]
SpaWeek Deals For Mother’s Day
As a new Mom, I am an expert on the fatigue, aches, pains and lack of time for personal hygeine (remember the days when we got to shower on a daily basis and actually style our hair?) that comes with the first year of motherhood. For Moms like me, who don’t have regular childcare and [...]
Just in time for summer entertaining: VOGA Baby Sparkling Wines
Whether you’re planning a summer wedding or event, or just looking for a creative way to jazz up an evening dinner party, these new baby sparkling wines from VOGA Italia look like a perfect favor or addition to your cocktail menu: VOGA Italia, the purveyor of delicious and eye-catching wines, announces the addition of Baby [...]
Hi-Tech Romance: Finding Mr. Right This Holiday Season
I met my husband thanks to technology. OK, so it wasn’t online dating or a mobile app, but rather a Web 2.0 tradeshow that found us both catching some fresh air outside an afterparty club, and a number of additional shows in the months following that led us to continued encounters (he lived more than [...]