It's been eight years since a dormitory fire at Seton Hall University in New Jersey left three students dead and others critically injured; seven since Robin Gaby Fisher 's seven-part series for the Newark Star Ledger, "After the Fire," was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize; and three since Fisher was a featured speaker at the [...]

By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger My friend Viv, who helped me get started on this stuff last week, has come through with a more advanced set of definitions. Some are commonplace-sounding terms newly adopted by Wall Street whiz kids to name their new tools — others have been around forever. LIBOR.  The London Inter Bank Offered Rate [...]

(We love it when a comment at WVFC is so good that we it deserves its own blog. Such was Judy Orlando's response to Monday's Newsmix, which had mentioned a Johns Hopkins study that showed rising suicide rates among boomers. – Ed.)  What’s going on here??? When I had just turned 40, a beautiful, educated [...]

Do you sometimes feel like everything's moving way too fast these days, including you? When can we ever find time to read that novel that's been glancing mournfully from the bedside?  Think short stories — those perfect miniatures of literature, so often overlooked in the wake of their boistrous big sister– the novel.  Women often [...]

By Patricia Yarberry Allen Parsing the language of a New York invitation is not always easy.  I like basic Black Tie.  It means that the men are an attractive backdrop for beautifully dressed women who can choose to wear a serious short dress or a long evening gown.  Even this safe “Black Tie” requires some [...]

We haven't found the video for it yet, but we wanted to let you know as soon we can that our fearless Dr. Patricia Yarberry Allen, President of Women's Voices for Change, shared her expertise during an interview today on Good Morning America.  The subject was "Do patients Lie to Their Doctors?".   Dr. Allen [...]

 By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger   Saturday is the beginning of the weekend, and what with the world being simply way to much for us to sort out at the end of five days in a financial House of Horrors, this is just the time to cuddle up with a good book.  And I’ve got a doozie: John [...]

Dear Dr. Poyner, I am 45 years old and newly single.  This dating scene is alarming enough without considering the risk of HPV and cancer that I hear so much about in the media.  I have never had an abnormal pap smear and have had only 4 sexual partners in my life, the last one [...]

Veteran author Gayle Greene, author of The Woman Who Knew Too Much and Changing the Story, is also a member of  he American Academy of Sleep Medicine, a professional medical society for researchers and clinicians, and a board member and the patient representative of the American Insomnia Association. Her new book, Insomniac,   goes far beyond [...]

By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger I don’t know about you, but I feel the need to follow this dreadful financial crisis almost perpetually.  Until a couple of weeks ago, I was an innocent, only occasionally scanning the headlines  and topic sentences of media coverage about business.  After all, I’m an Arts-Person, so I was drawn to the [...]