Book review: Single Mother in Charge
A good friend recently got a divorce and became a single mother. For the first time, I got to see exactly what goes into heading a household alone. I knew that not having a second pair of hands around to care for children every day had to rough, but I didn’t ever really think about [...]
Read and Win!! – Are you a Wander Woman? Finding contentment and direction in the workplace
Marcia Reynolds, PsyD, organizational psychologist and Master Certified Coach, is the author of Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction. In this excerpt, she shares how employers, regardless of sex, can engage and retain high-achieving women. ***** Be the first person to read and comment on this post and win a copy of Wander Woman!!***** [...]
The Infatuation or Love Quiz
By Sherrie Dillard Author of Love and Intuition: A Psychic’s Guide to Creating Lasting Love Our intuition is constantly bombarding us with unspoken intuitive messages about others, especially those with who we share a romantic interest. But how do you know what the intuitive feelings, sensations and mysterious messages really mean? You may for instance, feel drawn, almost [...]
Single women on a new trajectory
Salon’s Rebecca Traister offers her perspective on the recent spate of memoirs by single women in their 20s and 30s. Most interestingly, she writes: “Men, dating and heartbreak float in and out of these stories. But they are not the narrative force. These are books about chicks, but worlds away from assumptions about the chick-lit [...]
The Power of Eye Contact
I’m one of those people who wants eye contact. I want it from bank tellers, cashiers, and especially the human who pierces my arm at the blood drive. When I don’t get it, it bothers me. It makes me feel unseen. I’m not looking for a lengthy, soul-searching gaze. I really just want to be acknowledged for [...]
Read it and win: Happiness at Work
(First person to comment on this post gets a free copy of the book!) Are you happy in your job? Do you bounce out of bed in anticipation of the day ahead of you? If the answer is no, don’t despair. Srikumar S. Rao, Ph.D has written Happiness at Work (McGraw Hill), which could change [...]
Book bonus: The life of an Olympic champion
Several weeks ago, we published success tips from Nikki Stone, the aerial skiier who overcame a debilitating spinal injury to win an Olympic gold medal. Today we have the privilege of publishing an excerpt of her new book. Introduction By Nikki Stone Author of When Turtles Fly: Secrets of Successful People Who Know How To [...]
Read it and win: ‘I Lost My Job and I Liked It’
Lilou Mace, a dual citizen of France and the United States, got the same bad news so many earnest, hardworking folk have gotten recently: You’re being laid off. Her reaction was to fend off a serious funk and turn things to her advantage by using the Law of Attraction. She kept a 30-day journal of [...]
The book that has some women hopping mad
Salon interviewed Lori Gottlieb, the author of Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough. According to the article by Sarah Hepola: As in the 2008 Atlantic essay that started it all, Gottlieb’s depiction of single womanhood can be practically monstrous, a misery parade of boring happy hours and appointments with the bikini [...]
Read it and win: Healthy Cooking Tips from the Mayo Clinic experts
By the weight-loss experts at Mayo Clinic and Donald Hensrud, M.D., M.P.H. Authors of The Mayo Clinic Diet: Eat well. Enjoy life. Lose weight. ***The first person with a U.S. shipping address to comment on this post will win a copy of the book!*** Healthy cooking doesn’t mean you have to become a gourmet chef or [...]
Read it and win: Secrets to Abundance
What I like most about Kathleen McGowan’s new book, The Source of Miracles: 7 Steps to Transforming Your Life through the Lord’s Prayer, is that she doesn’t depict the prayer’s author as The Punisher but as a teacher who loved and welcomed all humanity. (McGowan has taken flak for her perspective. After cutting to commercial [...]
Sleep Myth Busters: The Sleep Lady Sets the Record Straight
By Kim West, LCSW-C, Author of The Sleep Lady®’s Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Well and Wake Up Happy #1 If I skip my child’s nap, he will sleep longer at night. Also, the later I put my child to bed, the later he’ll sleep in the morning. [...]
Read and Win: How Meditation Can Transform You and the World
**Be the first person to read and comment on this post and win a free copy of Be The Change. You must have a U.S. address to win.** By Ed and Deb Shapiro You must be the change you want to see in the world, as Mahatma Gandhi so eloquently said. In other words, change has [...]
Book review: Don’t Ever Call Me Ma’am!
I never get it when people, particularly women, worry about their age. I don’t understand why they consider themselves less attractive or less valuable or less anything as they get older. It’s been my experience that people with a few years under their belts are funny, smart, and interesting (well, usually). So when a book [...]
Read it and win: The Prince Harming Syndrome
Now, here’s a book I can get behind. The Prince Harming Syndrome is a how-to manual for women who want to stop dating jerks and start attracting worthwhile men. I became a fan of the author, Karen Salmansohn, after reviewing another of her books, Enough, Dammit last year. I’ve never met her or attended one [...]
