Please Help Tell the Story of Our Sex Lives

January 31, 2010 by Women's Voices For Change

Many of us remember the day we first ran across Our Bodies, Ourselves, as something of a revelation; perhaps you even picked up the more recent edition of the same [...]

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Poetry Friday: Crows

January 28, 2010 by Women's Voices For Change

As I write this I am looking out of a window in an air conditioned (!) Barnes & Noble in Houston. I have just seen a crow.  Once again [...]

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News on Gender and Heart Disease

January 27, 2010 by Holly Andersen

Last week,  two researchers from Australia announced an exciting new discovery about gender and heart disease. We have long recognized that men generally become prone to coronary artery disease earlier [...]

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Twelve Years After: How Widowhood Actually Feels

January 26, 2010 by Michele Buchanan

I remember everything, or at least the things that matter. I remember every pore of his skin, the encysted bump he had on the back of his head, the way [...]

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The Compass Rose: Kindred Spirits

January 25, 2010 by Ainslie Jones Uhl

An attractive blonde, wine glass in hand, sidled up to my husband. I could tell she was smart. She subtly moved her gaze from one end of the room to [...]

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Help Choose Nine Women to Run the World

January 24, 2010 by Carol Muske Dukes

I recently came up with an idea: that it would be revelatory to ask as many women who were willing to “nominate” our next world leaders to choose who, among [...]

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Poetry Friday: God’s Gym

January 21, 2010 by Lisa Russ Spaar

My evening commute takes me along a highway that could be Anywhere, USA — a rootless route of chain restaurants, box stores, motels, gas stations. One evening, stopped at a [...]

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How Drawing on My iPod Touch Led Me to a Wedding at the San Jose Museum of Art

January 20, 2010 by Julia L. Kay

(Many observant WVFC readers are already fans of Julia Kay, who first told us of her Daily Portrait Project a year ago and this fall shared vivid memories of many Septembers. [...]

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About Martha Coakley

January 20, 2010 by Diane Vacca

Attention, all candidates and wannabees: Learn a valuable lesson from Martha Coakley.
If you want to win, don’t take anything for granted. Fight as if your political life depends on it, [...]

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Journey Through the Peace Corps: “Are People Poor in Africa?”

January 20, 2010 by Alice Pettway

The questions of children never fail to reach to the center of things. I realized this anew sitting at my table answering the letters of a friend’s eighth-grade science class. [...]

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