Understanding Addictions:
Self-Medication and Self-Harm
Of the many hazards of lack of self-love, among the most serious, is behavior that harms you.
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Television’s Women of Color, Then and Now
A famous quote from Diahann Carroll might be good advice for marginalized women challenging the status quo in Hollywood or elsewhere. "If you're not invited to the party, throw your own."
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Shoulder Injuries in Women in Mid-Life
What causes shoulder injuries? It seems that my friends have been given different diagnoses for their shoulder pain and dysfunction. What can women do to prevent damage to their shoulders?
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“Chicago-Style Italian Beef,” from Vessel
by Parneshia Jones
"Chicago Style Italian Beef" is an ode to Chicago and Rome, two of my favorite cities in the world. It was my first time in Rome when I started to think about how things travel—food, recipes, cultures, and histories, and how we adopt them to our new surroundings and homes.
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Taming Your Internal Critic
You may have been judging yourself too harshly for so long, that it may require vigilant effort to change your thinking.
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In ‘Judy,’ Zellweger’s Performance is Dazzling, Heartbreaking, and Oscar-Worthy
The dazzling new movie 'Judy' is at once a celebration of an iconic star's courageous last stand and a cautionary tale about a brilliantly talented young girl whose childhood was stolen by an industry that eventually abandoned her.
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For Weight Loss Management in Perimenopause,
a Personalized Plan Works Best
Recognize that you are in a transition that is not just a hormonal one, but a transition into that second half of life where your wisdom and determination to find and achieve your personal best is certainly attainable.
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Poetry Sunday: “Lamentation for the Children,”
by Beverly Burch
Lamentation for the Children Children come, bringing bliss and wretchedness. They come ready to be bruised. Chain us with the soft tentacles of their openness. Leave us pierced and threaded, bound for time with thorns, singing behind the palings of love. Like children. Though we are not. Don’t look back, not once, at the trembling in your arms,…
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When the Past Interferes with the Present
We fear old, buried feelings and fear their power. In this way, they are vampire-like in that the best way to defeat them is to expose them to the light.
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New TV Series ‘Unbelievable’: Powerful True Story of Rape and Redemption
One thing that sets 'Unbelievable' apart from other movies and television series about rape is its treatment of the attacks. Even as we hear explicit details from the victims themselves, the sexual assaults are never sensationalized.
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Early Menopause and Depressive Mood Disorder
Women who experience menopause at a young age, as studies show, seem to be at a slightly increased risk of developing depression.
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Poetry Sunday: “Blackbody curve,” by Samiya Bashir
As enriching as it is to consider “Blackbody curve” in terms of its scientific allusions or placement in Samiya Bashir’s collection, it’s important to note that the poem stands on its own as an enjoyable and rewarding literary experience.
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The Journalistic Heroines of She Said :
How They Got the Story
'She Said,' a new book by The New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, uses the Harvey Weinstein case as its basis, but its subject is far larger. And more important.
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‘Downton Abbey’: Nothing Succeeds Like Excess
'Downton Abbey,' the movie, is bigger, if not exactly better, than ever.
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Osteoporosis Prevention
The greatest bone loss occurs is in the first 5 years after menopause. This is what every woman in her 40s should do to optimize lifelong bone health.
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Poetry Sunday:
“Before the Killing Frost,” by Diana Whitney
“Before the Killing Frost” is suffused with longing for the natural world—an almost physical grief at summer’s end—and the longing for a beloved.
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Untouchable: Weinstein’s Victims On Camera
A new contribution to the vast reporting on the Harvey Weinstein scandal is a documentary film, 'Untouchable,' by Ursula Macfarlane now streaming on Hulu. While it is by no means complete, it offers an in depth account of the personal stories of several of his victims.
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Vita & Virginia: Literary Love Story Lacks Spark
'Vita & Virginia' is lovely to look at, and the content is interesting from both historical and literary perspectives. But, the relationship at its center is never quite as all-consuming as it should be.
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Memory, Aging and Dementia
The symptoms of dementia vary depending on type, but all of them are characterized by nerve cell death that results in loss of memory, language, and other cortical functions, including the ability to communicate, reason and participate in daily activities.
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Poetry Sunday: “Ink on Paper,” by Judy Halebsky
“Ink on Paper” seems to prioritize unarticulated feeling over rational thought and movement and communication over holding things tightly and trying to preserve their physical manifestations.
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“Three Women:” An Intimate Portrait of Intimacy
Maggie, Lina and Sloane are their names. In 'Three Women,' writer Lisa Taddeo takes a close, extremely detailed, and graphic look at their sex lives.
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Fall’s Network Line-Up:
Where to Find TV’s Latest Heroines
The broadcast networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC (and I'll add CW and Fox to that list), announce their new series every fall. This year, there are several featuring strong women, many in rather unexpected roles.
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Rebellious Women: A Labor Day Toast
The bravery of our foremothers is too often unsung. On this, our national day off, won for us in 1894, we toast the heroines who took to the ramparts to help end the era of starvation wages and 60-hour workweeks.
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Poetry Sunday: “Getting Close,” by Victoria Redel
In the end, we are left not just with a sense of the speaker’s relationship with her mother, both before and after her death, but also with a sense of the history that made her mother the person she was.
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