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 [...]
Read More »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 [...]
Read More »Surrenderstan: A Week in Enemy Territory
January 10, 2010 by Shelley Singer

I find myself today in a foreign land, a threatening land, a land of anxiety and of disorientation, a place where I must relinquish control, a place I will call [...]
Read More »A Journey Through the Peace Corps: Letter From Mozambique
January 6, 2010 by Alice Pettway

The last time we heard about the latest adventures of poet and frequent WVFC contributor Alice Pettway, she was processing an abrupt shift in her Peace Corps plans after her [...]
Read More »Celebrating Turning 18
January 4, 2010 by Lily Casura

Seventeen years ago Wednesday, I knelt on a carpeted floor in a rented Seattle apartment, tilting a carrot cake I’d just finished baking and decorating with a big numeral “1” [...]
Read More »How To Begin a New Year at the Start of a New Decade, When Hope is Hard to Find
January 3, 2010 by Patricia Yarberry Allen

New Year’s resolutions are made and broken by most people soon after the list is made. It is often difficult to imagine how to make a resolution that will change [...]
Read More »On Pearl Harbor Day, Remembering One Woman’s War
December 2, 2009 by Luis Carlos Montalvan

Pulling on her size 4 1/2 combat boots to meet her driver who sped through wartime Italy’s treacherous streets, Sgt. Myrtle Vacirca had no time to reflect on how her [...]
Read More »Thanksgiving Day: A Day of Introspection and Gratitude
November 26, 2009 by Patricia Yarberry Allen

I did not feel well enough to travel this holiday. Normally, I would have pushed my way through it, but my husband gave me this gift of the day, the [...]
Read More »The Compass Rose: Thicker Than Water
November 25, 2009 by Ainslie Jones Uhl

“Let’s have a family Thanksgiving,” I said to my friend Mary, “without any blood relatives.” It was a time a few years ago when I had had my fill of [...]
Read More »Making It to 92: Part Two of Julie Danis’ Medical Mystery
November 11, 2009 by Julie Danis

Writer, commentator and humorist Julie Danis is a Chicago-based strategic marketing professional, and a consumer insights lecturer at Northwestern University. She’s worked for Frito-Lay, Inc. and held senior level [...]
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