The Gift of 2006
December 29, 2006 by Patricia Yarberry Allen
by Patricia Yarberry Allen, MD
It is so easy to focus on the things that go wrong on a daily basis — the petty annoyances of daily life — and yet [...]
Resolution Redux
December 29, 2006 by Laura Baudo Sillerman
by Laura Sillerman
At this age, I feel as though I’ve made them all: Lose 15 pounds (done), master the yoga headstand (undone), learn to speak Italian (undone), forgive those [...]
Notes from New York: Good Fortune
December 28, 2006 by Women's Voices For Change
Agnes Krup, a literary agent, had a not-so-wonderful Christmas in 2004. This year, she is embarking upon a travel adventure in New York City, where she lives. Notes from New [...]
Read More »The Plunge
December 28, 2006 by Laura Baudo Sillerman
by Laura Sillerman
I went in, in my bathing suit with big cotton pants rolled up to my knees.
Went into the 47-degree December ocean. Went in with 740 other [...]
Notes from New York: Lines, Crowds and “Thousands and Thousands of Paintings”
December 27, 2006 by Women's Voices For Change
Agnes Krup, a literary agent, had a not-so-wonderful Christmas in 2004. This year, she is embarking upon a travel adventure in New York City, where she lives. Notes from New [...]
Read More »Voices in Verse: Carol Muske-Dukes
December 27, 2006 by Women's Voices For Change
Carol Muske-Dukes is real, but almost too good to be. Poet, essayist, novelist, and, above all, teacher, she is a woman’s woman. She is true to the poet’s obligation to [...]
Read More »Using the Feminine to Drive the Vote
December 26, 2006 by Patricia Yarberry Allen
by Patricia Yarberry Allen, MD
First "French Women Don’t Get Fat," and now a French woman may become the next president of France.
Despite the fact that French politics have been controlled [...]
Dame Judi Dench’s Christmas Gift
December 22, 2006 by Women's Voices For Change
by Douglas A. McIntyre
Judi Dench is onstage this holiday season playing Mistress Quickly in "The Merry Wives of Windsor." The production is at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford. As [...]
The Permanence of Change
December 21, 2006 by Faith Childs
by Faith Childs
Winter’s approach is a reminder of the impermanence of everything, of the constancy of change. Shorter days, darkness at five o’clock. Root vegetables and foods that fortify [...]
Firsts: A Christmas Apart
December 20, 2006 by Women's Voices For Change
by Agnes Krup
Editor’s note: A diary of Agnes’ travels, a "vacation at home" in New York, will appear on Women’s Voices for Change the week of Dec. 25.
Two years ago, [...]

