Lady Parts On Fire
It’s a blinding, searing pain that can immobilize the strongest of women, the dreaded Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). Nowadays, it’s hard to find a woman who hasn’t...
Pineapples
Who doesn’t love pineapples? They’re sweet and tangy and sunny and before we became a global economy, they were pretty hard to get in northern climes. But...
Women, COVID & today’s economy
Ladies, we’re tired, right? Cooking, cleaning, raising kids and running the world takes its toll.
At the start of 2020, women’s participation in the labor force was at...
Pandemic Pop Quiz: Are you thriving, surviving or sinking?
All you had to do was stay home — lockdown, quarantine, masks, sanitizer and loads of toilet paper. Piece of cake, right? Perhaps not.
Our plans to repaint...
We’ve come a long way but are far from finished
Outrageous. Sexist.
Offensive. Appallingly outdated.
All would be accurate descriptions, by today’s standards, of the ads on the following pages, all of which appeared in popular magazines from the...
ZOOM ATTIRE: BUSINESS ON THE TOP, COMFORT ON THE BOTTOM
For the better part of the past year, many of us have been living our professional lives from the midsection up — Grecian busts with more personality.
For...
GET AWAY: REFRESHING ROAD TRIPS & RAFTING ADVENTURES
All Floridians know that summer here starts in March, when the cool breezes of our southern winter evaporate and the sweltering, relentless humidity envelopes us all. Temps...
WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH PANTONE’S COLORS OF THE YEAR?
When Pantone announced TWO colors of the year in 2021, it seems they were just jumping on the bandwagon. Everywhere we look, we see these two colors...
CHARCUTERIE: IT’S ALL ABOUT THE PARTY…PLATTER
Let’s start with pronunciation: SHär-køødęrē. Charcuterie. By now, we should all have the pronunciation down because this presentation of appetizers “trends” with the same regularity as little...
JUMP ROPE: THE CHEAP, PORTABLE & EFFECTIVE WORKOUT
Despite the glut of Peloton, Mirror & Nordic Track commercials on television these days, exercise need not be expensive. A good jump rope costs less than $20....