I didn’t have a great experience as a Girl Scout. It was 1972, I was nine and I remember that Ellie Prescott’s mother was the Girl Scout leader. I don’t remember Ellie liking me very […]
As the years go by, we will always remember the women who endured ridicule, arrest, and public shunning, thank you for lighting the path then and now. We will keep it burning.
I have had far too many days over the past few years when I wanted to hurl a dead raccoon at something or someone. I think it started with 9-11, has escalated with the recession, […]
When I was a girl, I watched my mother. She was from County Cork, Ireland, just five feet tall and maybe 105 pounds, but make no mistake, she could slay dragons. If I could pick […]
When my daughter starts dating, I’m going to pay special attention to the number of letters in his last name. Why? According to Uncommon Goods, one of my favorite stores, “People with very short last […]
Ok, so the headline is a little exaggerated, but the ridiculous implication that women who drink more than four cups of coffee a day have a “25% lower risk of endometrial cancer than those who consumed less than 1 cup per day,” is even more exaggerated. […]
The 2012 Summer Olympics in London will mark the Games’ debut of women’s boxing. For women who box, it’s an important step to equality…until the Association Internationale de Boxe Amateur (AIBA)”presented female boxers ‘with skirts, […]
Most people don’t know the history of Thanksgiving beyond the story of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Indians sitting down as friends to celebrate the harvest of 1621 after a long, difficult winter. [As an […]
This past Friday, 139 years ago, Susan B. Anthony was arrested and charged with casting a vote illegally. Several weeks early, she and her sisters entered a barbershop where voters were being registered and demanded […]
Big news out of Georgia Health Sciences University this week. Apparently, two male physicians have found a “reliable, minimally invasive way to screen” for whether a woman has too much of a male hormone. They […]
I think I’m going to cry. Can you imagine the people you have to irritate to recieve a “hand-delivered letter from a lawyer” listing eight McDonald’s locations where you are no longer welcome? Erin Carr-Jordan […]
Can women really delay their baby’s birth by simply willing it? Yale researchers noticed an interesting blip in U.S. birth rates on October 31st. WaHaHaHa! [cue the scary music]. Lead author of the study, Becca Levy, […]
Blair Michaela Shanahan Lane may be our youngest GIRLFRIEND OF THE WEEK, but she exudes the integrity, character, kindness and GIRLFRIEND bossy boots that are reserved for our most special GIRLFRIENDS. She earned this award […]
This ground-breaking study survey involved over 2519 women (1005 on the Pill vs. 1514 not on the Pill when they met their partner) from the the United States, Czech Republic, Britain and Canada who had had […]
How does one get to be the executive vice president of marketing for a major beverage company and approve a marketing program with a tagline, “It’s Not for Women?” Who excludes 51 percent of the […]
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