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Breakfast Muffins: The Classic and the Unusual
I have a very soft spot for muffins. They are so easy to make that muffins were the very first thing I taught myself how to cook -- yet people think well of you for doing it from scratch. They make the...
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When Parents Encourage -- or Not (Sweetie)
Last Saturday, we drove to a different part of town for Sam's soccer game. Per the coach's instructions, we arrived a little early so the team could warm up beforehand. Apparently, they needed to work...
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Make an Irish Breakfast for St. Patrick's Day Tomorrow
The traditional Irish breakfast is a wonder to behold. It's enormous. As Kathy describes it in her global breakfast roundup on Healthy Happy Life, A proper full Irish breakfast is known as a "fry."...
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Embracing My Flakiness
I'm flaky. When people compare me to fictional characters, Phoebe on Friends has come up more than once. There is an episode where, in the course of an argument, Phoebe points out the faults of Monica...
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No One Does Anxiety Like Joan Didion
Joan Didion made anxiety beautiful. Odd as that may sound, her writing captures the undercurrent of electricity running through daily life, sometimes stronger, sometimes not, that ultimately makes us...
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Apps for the iPad that Occupy Traveling Kids
I’ve shamelessly touted the iPad as my favorite travel accessory and now you can stock yours up with a bunch of apps that will keep your tot busy, or at least clicking around, while you travel. Some of...
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Gourmet Live and BlogHer Road Trip, Austin Recipe: Barbecued Pork Burgers...
Austin recipe Barbecued Pork Burgers with Slaw By Alexis Touchet, Gourmet Photo by Romulo Yanes / Gourmet Serves 4 Active time:30 min Start to finish: 30 min Spicing up store-bought barbecue sauce...
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BlogHer Network Member News, March 16: Vanessa Seneriches' Fundraiser for The...
Vanessa Seneriches of The Love Collage reports that her blog is coming alive in realife with social events that focus on the arts, culture and the community. This Spring, The Love Collage presents a...
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Rock Climbing: My Confident Girl Met Her Match and Conquered
Kate's awesome Daisy troop leader organized a great outing for the troop: Rock climbing. I, for one, thought it was a fantastic idea. And it couldn't have come at a better time for my girl. Ever since...
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Girls and Sports: The Power of Showing Real Women Being Strong
A few weeks back, I wrote about the positive effect it can have on girls to portray female athletes engaged in their sports, being strong and competent, rather than as sexualized objects. For instance,...
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Soda Bread and Mint Tea: Appreciating My Mexican/Irish Heritage
Remember those old Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup commercials? Two unsuspecting, wholesome types come from two different directions, bump into each other on a street corner, and cry out “Hey, you got...
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Dipping My Toe into Online Dating
On a sunny winter day, a new friend came over and we worked in the yard. As we excavated three months' worth of weeds, we talked about relationship stuff and she asked questions that unearthed some...
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Danny Boy: The Importance of Being in the Moment
We were in the North of England with a friend, and we had a proper holiday party at his mother's home with king prawn and big beers and Irish Whiskey in tiny cups. And we wore the colored thin paper...
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Smart Technology Can End "Time Poverty" for Women
On Friday, March 11, I saw an interesting panel at the Women in the World Summit on how clever technology accelerates women's economic opportunities in third world and developing nations. It opened...
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Parenting Decisions, Feminism and the Stay-at-Home Mom
I have a few memories of being a little girl. In one, I am clinging to my mother's leg as she tries to leave me at daycare. I'm hysterical, and all I want is her softness, the smell of her hair in my...
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The Unstoppable Marie Curie
Maria Sklodovska Curie, born in 1867 in Russian occupied Warsaw, Poland is the only person in history to receive two Nobel prizes, each in a different science. In 1903 she received the Nobel Prize in...
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Google Gives Blogger a Makeover
At SXSW Interactive this week, Google announced a refresh of the interface for its popular Blogger blogging platform. The software hasn't been updated in years, although it remains one of the most...
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American Idol Recap: The Top 12 Sing The Year They Were Born
Songs from the year the contestants were born: This should be depressing Last night the show kicked off with a few ways that American Idol is going to help Japan...or more accurately, help its audience...
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Kavita Ramdas of The Global Fund for Women
Kavita Ramdas is the senior advisor for to the Global Fund for Women, the largest nonprofit grantmaking foundation supporting women's human rights all over the world. Since 1987, the fund has given...
View ArticleHillary Clinton: Secretary of No When It Comes to Future Plans with the Obama...
I love this video clip of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton being interviewed this week by CNN's Wolf Blitzer. She's the Secretary of No -- she won't continue as Secretary of State should Obama...
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