women

Patricia V. Davis, a fifty-something woman with two failed marriages, conflict with her parents, and issues with her sibs and sons, blogged as the Expert at Failed Relationships. In her interaction with readers and other bloggers she was struck by how the lack of self-esteem led women to make wacky decisions.

The film Black Swan confronts most of the significant issues facing girls and women today in a way that few have ever dared. At first glance, its screenplay reads like a simple horror flick swirling around Swan Lake, the ballet based on Russian folk tales and made famous by the composer Tchaikovsky.

On August 26, 1920 women were granted the right to vote. It's difficult to think of a world without the League of Women voters and those helpful women staffing the polling stations, but today is only the 90th anniversary of the signing of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution.

When we were kids, finding women in the history books was a tough job. Not many were there to find. Now we've had a string of female Secretaries of State, women astronauts, and two women on the ballot for Vice President of a major political party. Women are finding their way into the history books, and tracking the progress is the National Women's History Project (www.nwhp.org).

This moving humanitarian adventure tale continues the story of building schools in remote villages of Pakistan and Afghanistan begun in Three Cups of Tea.

It's not often that as women we take time to flex our creative muscle or expand our repertoire of activities that nurture the soul.  Smart gal and entrepreneur, Bev Sanders understood that women want both physical and artistic outlets and set about to design programs to do just that.