Women’s Voices for Change had a fantastic lunch today in New York City.  We introduced the first of our “Conversations With” events featuring Arianna Huffington and Silda Wall Spitzer.  The lunch was sold out almost before the tickets left the post office.   Women clearly want to understand how other interesting women navigate midlife reinvention or [...]

Look around.   It isn’t the same old Women’s Voices for Change, is it?  It isn’t the same and it isn’t old. Just a few short months ago, our board got together and said we must be our message.  We must be sassy, take risks, understand the right and responsibility to reinvent what isn’t working for [...]

Dear Dr. Pat, I am 44 years old and know that the symptoms that I am having are really related to menopause.  I am having less frequent bleeding ranging from 45-70 days this last year.  My periods are shorter and lighter. I am anxious, I am bad tempered, I have miserable night sweats, my sleep [...]

By Elizabeth Hemmerdinger I took my granddaughter, 5 weeks short of 5 years, to Central Park yesterday afternoon.  She’s the one who gave me my nickname.   “Rocks, Grambo!  Can I climb them?” I checked the soles of her shiny Mary Janes.  Yes, indeed, rubber soles.  Do you remember that the man in the shoe store [...]

by Agnes Krup Lately, I have tried to be less wasteful. This has not been easy, because – not to brag – it’s probably fair to say that nothing much is being wasted in my house to begin with. Shoes get reheeled, buttons sewn back on, socks darned (okay, only favorite socks). We recycle whatever [...]

“G’nite dad.  I love ya.”  For the last few months I say this out loud with such gratitude every night when I hit the sack.  You have no idea what it means to me that I can go to bed with peace.  You see… I could have been wracked with guilt and remorse for being [...]

We’ve been excited here at WVFC to see so many women in their prime appointed to important posts in the new administration, from Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State to Hilda Solis (seen above) as Labor Secretary. However, as Allison Stevens pointed out at Women’s eNews this week, many if not most were talented members [...]

Teacher, horse farmer, mentor, poet, Christine Gelineau understands dwelling on this earth.  Here we see how poetry breathes as she greets spring's first full month with a meditation on the hard and the soft of being fully alive.                    "Bliss"                                          April loves a challenge, choosing to split the slab of winter-hardened earth with [...]

1.  What are you working on now? I’m promoting my new novel, ADMISSION, which is set in the Princeton admissions office, and trying not to freak out as my 17 year old daughter gets ready to apply to college. 2.  What was your biggest challenge completing your current project? Doing justice to the cultural hot [...]

WVFC is happy to welcome Dr. Holly Andersen, a member of our Medical Advisory Board. Dr. Andersen, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical Center, has additionally served as the Chief Medical Resident for the Department of Medicine and Director of Education and Outreach for the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at The [...]