If entertaining this Fourth or just having friends over any other time, set up a post card station at a central location.  At this station provide pens, postcards and stamps encouraging your guests to send …

So often we think only derogatory thoughts about ourselves. We’re too fat. Too old. Have too much cellulite. You know the rap. We become a society of self deprecating women. Who needs enemies when we hate ourselves to much? Well I say enough is enough!
We need to gather together as women and stop this madness. We need to talk about building body and self confidence and how to inspire our young proteges to do the same. Here are some steps to take in how to renounce self hate for good.

Sometimes I feel like the Andy Rooney of this blog. I often write about my gripes and there are many gripes swirling around the atmosphere at the present moment. I don’t even know where to begin with the oil spill in the Gulf. I can’t watch or listen to it anymore. It isn’t that I’m apathetic. I simply get a pit in my stomach and a feeling of doom when I see the pictures of the beautiful blues of the water being tarnished by sludge. Some people aren’t beach people. I am. It is my valium. It is my ambien. It soothes my soul.

Frozen Blueberry Lemonade (serves 4)
In a blender combine 3 cups of ice, 1 1/2 cups of blueberries, 1 cup of lemonade, 1/2 cup of fresh mint leaves, 1/4 cup confectioner’s sugar and 1/2 cup of …

We all know someone who’s been abused. Since they’re adults, making choices of their own free will, we empathize, we counsel, we offer guidance. But what about those young adults, teens that we know that are experiencing the same types of abuses in their relationships? What do we do then? Can we stop the cycle of abuse if we intervene? The answer is YES!

We hear so much about bullying these days. It covers our news stories, our children whisper about it in school hallways, and we may have suffered from it in our own past. It’s a growing epidemic. Studies has …