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Really Like Writing For Examiner
I have to admit....I really like writing for Examiner so far. I got the position of Charlotte True Crime Examiner about three months ago and really did not do a whole lot with it due to other commitments. About two weeks ago. I saw in another writing forum that some...
Celebrating Our 4th Anniversary!
On October 28th my hubby and I celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary. We went to a bed and breakfast in Stone Mountain, Georgia the weekend before. We stayed at an inn called The Village Inn.The inn was nice and had a Gone With The Wind theme. The innkeeper put us...
Charlotte True Crime Examiner for Examiner.com
Two of my favorite things...true crime and writing! I just got the position of Charlotte True Crime Examiner for Charlotte, North Carolina. I have worked in the legal position for over ten years, my husband is in law enforcement and I have other family members in law enforcement. I am...
Photo By Kristian D./Flickr.comThe past three months since I quit my paralegal job to work full-time as a freelancer have been hectic to say the least. One of the interesting things that I started working on is as a writer for Suite101. I actually got accepted as a writer...
My son is going into 9th grade and is on the JV football team. They had their first pre-game scrimmage last night at the high school. It was just the JV team and they showed off what they have been practicing all summer and then had a short scrimmage against...
Okay, Fine, Dammit
By 7:22am today I was stranded on the side of the road, my car a heaping, silent dead tree, my fingers frozen twigs on this frigid winter morning. I was only driving this old, neglected car because our main vehicle succumbed to fire a couple weeks ago, after a family...
I went digging through my pictures in search of one, this one I had in mind, an image of serenity. I wanted to print it out and paste it into my journal, the ever-present notebook I now carry to catch those droplets of awareness and peace, the ones that ping...
I’m good. I’m in a really, really good place. I am supported and I am loved and I am engaged in a handful of proven programmed solutions. I am parenting and wife-ing and working, all with a new sense of peace and pride. Don’t get me wrong, it’s wretched sometimes,...
I took my last drink nine days ago. I admitted I am powerless over alcohol, and that my life had become unmanageable. There it is. *** I have been silent online. I have been suffocating beneath the weight of my truth, the elephant on my chest, the muzzled agony in knowing that if...
It is once upon a time, 34 Septembers ago, and a woman with apple cheeks and Pantene-commercial hair goes into labor. Her husband puts down the beer, sells a shotgun, and uses the $40 to drive 50 miles to the nearest hospital. They bring their baby Girl home to a...
I used to roll my eyes at the very word, mommyblogger, spit it from sneered lips so I wouldn’t have to hold its taste in my mouth. And by “used to” I actually mean right up until this past Saturday, when I greedily gobbled an entire crow pie, followed by...
BettyConfidential.com: Latest Articles
Bobbi Brown on Makeup Must-Haves
5 essential items every woman needs to own....
With spring just around the corner, it's time to put a sexy swing back in our steps, and rediscover our seductive selves....
"Farrah Believed She Would Get Better”
Jaclyn Smith talks to Betty Confidential about her stay-young secrets, why you won't see her on Dancing With the Stars and her memories of Charlie's Angels co-star Farrah Fawcett....
Leaking the truth about Cleopatra, the Mona Lisa model and more....
Gerard is Hollywood's Most-Wanted Man!
From Jennifer Aniston to Gabourey Sidibe, everybody wants to get their hands on Gerard Butler!...
Stephen Moyer Explains His Beef with Twilight
The sexy True Blood actor tells Jonathan Ross why Twilight fans hate him....
Women Entrepreneurs GROW Global
High Potential Exports in Thailand
Thailand is working diligently to develop high potential products in order to push for an export growth of 10-15% next year. Export Promotion Department Director-General Srirat Rastapana (pictured) stated that her department and the Thai Chamber of Commerce had drafted strategies to develop many kinds of goods with high potential to...
Women Entrepreneurs GROW Global Makes “Best Blog” List
Women Entrepreneurs GROW Global (www.womenentrepreneursGROWglobal.org) is honored to be featured among the “100 Best Blogs for Women in Business” under the International category. We are in such good company! This is our first recognition for WEGG. Congratulations to everyone who made the list and let’s hope this is...
Globally, Where Do You Want To Go?
Posted by: Laurel Delaney Filed under: Inspiration, International business, Video Tagged: Australia, Laurel Delaney, New South Wales, women going global ...
Local Woman Aviator Goes Global to Mark 100-Year Anniversary
An international event is being organized by Mireille Goyer (pictured) — who got her pilot licence in 1991 — to mark and celebrate 100 years of women aviators. The goal is to encourage other female pilots to introduce women to flying by taking them for a short flight, between March...
Housewives Turned Global Entrepreneurs
What drives women to become entrepreneurs and how do these motivations differ from those of men? Some feel the greatest discrepancy lies in the work-family balance factor. Snippet from article: I’m beginning to wonder: maybe the glass ceiling that currently exists isn’t such a bad thing after all. It is allowing women...
ELLE News Blog
Paris Fashion Week Fall 2010 Favorites
The multi-city, month-long marathon that was the fall 2010 collections ended Wednesday with a fabulous ‘50s-inspired collection by Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton. The designer embraced women and all their bits and pieces by casting curvier supermodels to strut their stuff on his runway. Dries Van Noten also embraced ladylike...
Lies Maculan’s Dream Shop Opens
Organizing an exhibit around people’s dreams might seem nebulous; but Austrian artist Lies Maculan’s pop-up art installation, which opened last night in Chelsea, contains some very concrete desires. “Unexpected inheritance,” “sex with the ex,” and “wrinkle free” are just some of the 100-plus wishes represented in “The Dream Shop,” her...
Street Chic: Paris Fashion Week
Metallic ankle boots and a luxe fur add a double dose of style to winter knits. Photo: Anne Ziegler Click here for our complete fall 2010 Fashion Week coverage Think you are Street Chic? E-mail us your photo and you could appear in ELLE.com's Street Chic Daily. Follow ELLE on...
Street Chic: Paris Fashion Week
Polka dots add personality to solid-color separates (on Colette owner Sarah Lerfel) . Photo: Anne Ziegler Click here for our complete fall 2010 Fashion Week coverage Think you are Street Chic? E-mail us your photo and you could appear in ELLE.com's Street Chic Daily. Follow ELLE on Twitter. Become our...
Paris Fashion Week: Beauty Wrap-Up
How do Paris designers’ fall 2010 runway hair and makeup compare to their spring 2010 looks? Check out the beauty face-offs below and cast your votes. —Emily Hebert Louis Vuitton: Mile-High Frizz vs. Sleek Pony Sonia Rykiel: Frizzy Updo and Glitzy Cap vs. Low Pony and Spherical Headband Isabel Marant:...
Street Chic: Paris Fashion Week
Booties give a boost to a sequined mini and well-draped topper (on Leigh Lezark). Photo: Anne Ziegler Click here for our complete fall 2010 Fashion Week coverage Think you are Street Chic? E-mail us your photo and you could appear in ELLE.com's Street Chic Daily. Follow ELLE on Twitter. Become...
Hitchedmag.com
Four St. Patrick’s Day dates that could get you lucky....
Recession-Proofing Your Marriage
How couples can ensure survival during volatile times....
6 Ways to Create a Strong and Healthy Marriage
Use these tips to create a strong and prosperous marriage....
David pours his sweat and vision into their new business AlteArte....
Overcoming Personal Fears in Marriage
Why fear (particularly from a job loss) should never dictate the positive forces in your marriage....
7 simple steps to creating an evolving keepsake that’ll keep friends and family up to date....
Breakup Girl
Closing the lines of communication
A game of telephone on March 16, 1998… Dear Breakup Girl, About a year ago, an old male friend moved back to town. We quickly became best friends. Our feelings toward each other changed and we began dating, then he lost his job. The dating stopped. We remained close friends until we...
One little boy works it all out....
Mad! Men! Barbies! Collect all four! Totally buying a Joan (and then padding her dress).* While we’re on the subject, what do we think of the new Code Monkey Barbie? Either way, this is a really interesting and thorough take. (H/T Joy Engel.) * Or, put another way by a later tipster: “You know...
Via Broadsheet: Can you smell the aroma of manufactured manliness? Because there is an epic, and pungent, battle underway in the men’s personal care aisle. [Yesterday], Advertising Age declare[d] that we are seeing “the biggest array of product launches for men in nearly a decade and maybe ever.” The major competitors...
This week at Happen: Will he ever divorce?
MSN.com, Match.com, HappenMagazine.com: they’re in a healthy and satisfying 3-way relationship. Meaning that you can find MSN/Match.com’s “Ask Lynn” columns –penned by BG’s alter ego — over at Happen now as well. This week Lynn helps Edgy in Erie, a gal living with, and raising her kids with, a guy who...
Study: Living in sin not so bad after all
Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon.com’s Broadsheet calls out the New York Times for misrepresenting statistics in the title of their article, “Living Together First Doesn’t Make Marriage Last, Study Finds.” Flory examines the statistics of said study and looks to other sources to sum up with her title “Living in...
Mars Venus LIVING
In recent weeks we’ve highlighted some of John’s travels to places as diverse as China, Denmark, and South Africa. Many in America know of the great success of the Mars Venus books in the United States, but often people are not aware that John’s books have been translated into over...
Dear Lauren: Why Do Men Like Email?
Dear Lauren, in a long distance relationship does email count for being as good as a phone call? My women friends assume that emails are impersonal and that it means the man is uninterested. Here are the facts: we have a 48 year-old airline captain based in Hong Kong who...
Obviously, there is no “one size fits all” answer to that question. But it is far easier to understand when in a relationship you and your partner are ready to have sex if you have an understanding of the four paths to connecting and experiencing true intimacy – physical, emotional,...
Five Keys to Asking A Man for His Support
If you are not getting the support you want in your relationship, there is a strong possibility that you don’t ask enough or that you are asking in a way that simply does not work. You should not interpret that failure as a sign to stop asking. In truth, feeling...
Survey Shows a Dramatic Drop in School Violence
As reported this week by the Associated Press, there’s been a dramatic drop in the percentage of children being bullied or beaten up by their peers. These findings were revealed in a national survey by experts who believe anti-bullying programs are starting to have an impressive impact on what has...
One More Crack in That Glass Ceiling
Kathryn Bigelow’s victory for best director in Sunday night’s Oscars’ ceremony provided a surprising moment for millions of those who tuned in to watch. Undoubtedly the 3,400 attendees seated inside Hollywood’s Kodak Theatre knew that Bigelow’s victory, if it came, would be a first, but the majority of all those...
Feministing
Ask Professor Foxy: What Is the Line Between Support and Getting My Needs Met?
This weekly Saturday column "Ask Professor Foxy" will regularly contain sexually explicit material. This material is likely not safe for work viewing. The title of the column will include the major topic of the post, so please read the topic......
The Feministing Five: Sinclair Sexsmith
Sinclair Sexmith is a sex blogger who writes the Sugarbutch Chronicles: The Sex, Gender and Relationship Adventures of a Kinky Queer Butch Top. She's been blogging about sex and gender for several years now, and at Sugarbutch she blogs about......
Remember the conservative "experts" in Texas trying to change school curricula? Well, it looks like they won. A new bill in Georgia passed committee on Wednesday that would outlaw race- and sex-selective abortions. Broadsheet talks about why this is problematic.......
Haul monitors: Young women, YouTube and price of beauty
On Wednesday night, I was honored to be a guest on CUNY TV's Brian Lehrer Live, a weekly current events show filmed here in New York. I was there, along with Marisa Meltzer, the author of Girl Power: the Nineties......
Sexist Ad of the Day: Your Vagina is a Void
Nothing more effective in selling a product than telling women their used-up vadges are ruining their relationships. Another gem after the jump. (Text at the bottom says "Vaginal-tightening gel for women over 40.") via copyranter.......
This is a guest post of the presentation given by our incredible student panelist at the University of Iowa for our college tour, Conner Spinks. Just a freshman, Conner's insight, brilliance and general bad-assery absolutely blew us away. To......
The Sisterhood of the Shrinking Jeans
I made this to go with steaks for dinner one night a few weeks ago. SO YUMMY! Even the kids gobbled it up using Baked Tostitos scoops! It’s all good as an appetizer, late night snack, on chicken, by itself…..well, you get the picture. In the famous words of DJ...
The Saturday Review: Skull Candy Ink’d (and Giveaway)
Picture it, Sicily 1942-oh sorry, way too many late night Golden Girls episodes lately. Where was I? Oh yes, picture it: I go to the gym, pick a machine, turn on my ipod, choose my playlist, put my ear buds in, hit play, stow ipod away in my work out pants...
The Monday Project Link-Up: Catching Up
Welcome to the Monday Project Link-Up!! This week was all about catching up on projects past because even I, who writes the post every week, missed posting a project. And before we get ahead of ourselves with some really cool new projects, we wanted to give all our newbies and procrastinators a...
Know When to Walk Away…Know When To Run
This past week has been a huge struggle for me, workout wise. I’m hurting, and it’s kind of freaking me out. I listened to some of my fellow Sisters last week in one of our Team in Training conference calls, who were having a hell of a week LAST week. The...
Team Leaderboard – Spring Fling, Week #2
Another week has come and gone and it’s time to see which team kicked their shrinking up a notch! Last week, The Weight Loss Warriors took the early lead. Will they remain number one this week or will another team step up and steal the throne? Here are the cumulative results: ...
I am nothing without goals. I am constantly setting new goals for myself and am always dreaming of bigger things. I feel my best when I have something I am striving for, something I am set on achieving. Seriously? What’s life if you just stick to the same old routine?...
Karin's Coaching Blog
How Listening to Your Body Can Make You Happier
A few days ago I picked up Deepak Chopra’s new book ‘The Ultimate Happiness Prescription: 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment’ and I was delighted to find out that he dedicated one chapter to the practice of listening to your body. Most of us are masters at listening to our thoughts....
You Don’t Have to Change to Be Loved
Most people are so busy to make improvements that they don’t notice that they stepped out of heaven. - Byron Katie Listening to Byron Katie’s book ‘I Need Your Love - Is That True?” I was reminded of the great paradox, the one that can be so hard to accept: Life...
One of my all time favorite books on writing is Brenda Ueland’s “If You Want to Write. A Book About Art, Independence and Spirit”. It is an uplifting, witty, helpful and supportive book for writers. Written in 1938, it is still relevant today. Below is what Brenda says about creating one...
Who Do You Want to Be in 2010?
2010 is upon us! What better time than the days between Christmas and the New Year to regroup, rethink and redesign. Not only does this time hold promises of possibilities and new beginnings, it also offers an opportunity to sort out your life, start some things anew and reinvent yourself. In mythology...
It’s that time of year again and while preparing for Christmas, I couldn’t help but think that the most precious gift we can give to each other is to live our lives with an open heart. Happiness is a skill we are all born with. Keeping it alive in a society...
On a day when I am overwhelmed by the feeling of overwhelm and trying to relax the tight knot in my stomach, I stumble across Steth Godin’s new ebook: What Matters Now and find this entry: EASE We are the strivingest people who have ever lived. We are ambitious, time-starved, competitive, distracted....
Change.org's Women's Rights Blog
In Cambodia, No Bribe, No Rape Investigation
More and more women and girls are getting raped in Cambodia, but if they don't have the cash to pay off law enforcement, they can forget about an investigation into their assault. Basically, if you're poor, it's okay to rape you, and you don't deserve justice. A new Amnesty International report...
Pakistani Acid-Attack Victims Fight for Justice: Now With Supreme Court Support
File this under about frakin' time. Pakistani survivors of acid attacks fighting back against their attackers now have the support of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Naila Farhat was 13 when she was ambushed by her science teacher and a "spurned suitor" who threw acid in her face, leaving her half-blind and disfigured. She spent...
More Than Two Women Die Every Day From Pregnancy-Related Causes
If the United States is spending more money on health care than any other country on Earth, where exactly is that cash going to? Certainly not to combating maternal mortality, given that women in America are more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than expectant mothers in some 40 other...
Repeat Offenders Account for 9 out of 10 Rapes on College Campuses
NPR has a piece out called Myths That Make it Hard to Stop Campus Rape. It is well worth a read, even if it has some serious issues that I would like to take to task, as well as some good truths. The main point is one that I think college...
Reese Witherspoon and Cool Jewelry Fight Domestic Violence
Reese Witherspoon, cool jewelry, and fighting domestic violence: what's not to love? Today marks the end week of events surrounding International Women's Day (IWD), sponsored by Vital Voices and the Avon Foundation as part of their Global Fund to End Violence Against Women. As a huge Legally Blond fan (no, I...
This Just In: The Pill Won't Kill You!
Despite the vigorous efforts of conservatives and religious fanatics to convince us that birth control -- everything thing from oral contraceptives to even plain ol' condoms -- causes cancer, it seems those pesky scientists keep coming up with factual research that tells a different story. A new study conducted in...
Carrie and Danielle
Women and Divorce, Making Smart Financial Decisions
Going through a divorce and the financial challenges that come with it is something that nobody wants and that’s accentuated for a woman. When going through divorce proceedings, women more so than men, there is not only the financial future to worry about but also for the family and [...] Related...
Financial Advice for Women, Personal Money Management
When it comes to women in the workforce they are there more than ever before and the range that they are in the market ranges from construction to a professor. In most cases though women still aren’t making the same amount of money as men so it’s even more [...] Related...
The Truth about Money, Men and Women, His and Hers
When it comes to looking after money it is something that can be very challenging. When it comes to looking after money it means that you have to be extremely particular about the way that you spend your money. What comes with that is that you have to be [...] Related...
Financial Advice, Is It Really That Different For Men and Women?
When it comes to offering financial advice for women, especially as a guy, it can be an extremely delicate subject. We’re taught these days that we’re all equal in terms of all things: • Business • Employment • Education • Advancement • Etc… For the most part it’s something that is easy enough to do. We’re [...] Related...
Financial Help for Women, Having a Baby as a Single Mother
Having a child is one of the events that aren’t only a happy time but one of those times that makes single moms wonder where the money is going to come from and a lot of them have to turn for financial help, possibly for the very first time. When [...] Related...
Financial Help for Women, Creating Your Family Budget
As women we are for most instances responsible for the creation of the family budget to make sure that everything is purchased and the financial viability of the family unit stays intact. So where and how to begin is what we’re here to talk about today. Beginning the creation of [...] Related...
DuchessOmnium - Island to island
My electrics have, to use slang my New Zealand grandmother favoured, been giving me gyp lately. I replaced an alternator, disconnected the adverc, and ripped out the split diode thingy (and I barely know what any of this stuff is). Nevertheless the batteries complain. They reward my careful evening attention...
For many years a pair of swans has lived at Enslow, where my boat Pangolin is moored. The swans spend their days cruising along the canal and knocking at the sides of boats, begging for bread. They rarely stray farther than the quarter of a mile line of moored narrowboats except...
It is my mother’s birthday, and I haven’t spoken to her since I got back to England six weeks or so ago. I don’t have a landline anymore, and because it is awfully expensive to make or receive international calls on a cell phone, I bought a “phone card” this...
Actually I have never so much as seen a picture of a Persian bordello, let alone been inside such a place, but I fancy that I have decorated narrowboat Pangolin in what could have been a pre Ayatollah style. That’s my improbable excuse for the excess of colour, pattern and...
It’s half past ten and I’m violating a fairly strict boaty rule: no engine running after eight. You can hear the big diesel rumble several boat lengths away, but as there is no one on board either in front or behind me, I am hoping I can get away...
We were all running short of diesel, coal, gas and toilet fluid, because first Dusty was stuck in the ice at Duke’s Lock, and then he had to go north to reload his boat. So everyone was glad to get his text message the other day. Squirrels are searching out their...