Mother's Day for me is no longer about flowers, a card and a phone call, because my mom is gone. This day has become about remembering, so I've shared her story here. You may see your own mom's story in it, too.
Mother's Day for me is no longer about flowers, a card and a phone call, because my mom is gone. This day has become about remembering, so I've shared her story here. You may see your own mom's story in it, too.
I experienced a difficult moment in 2003, when Take Our Daughters to Work Day was pressured into becoming Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. There was a vital reason this program was created specifically for girls.
Every day on TV you can tune in and see a hair makeover, a body makeover, even a house makeover. But what does any of it matter when it's really your life that needs the makeover?
I can't believe we're having another one. I still have my little green button from 1970 with "59¢" emblazoned on it. Now we're at 77 cents. Forty years and 18 cents. A dozen eggs has gone up 10 times that amount.
"I don't know which one of you I'd like to f**k first." With those words, a long and beautiful friendship was forged between me and Gloria Steinem. Let me explain.
We've invited some of our most influential women bloggers to reflect on the accomplishments and struggles facing women. From Queen Noor of Jordan to Eve Ensler, the voices are as varied and impassioned as you'd expect.
I want to take this opportunity to mark International Women's Day by writing about the woman who had the greatest impact on my life -- my mother. She brought me up to believe that there was nothing I should be afraid to try while at the same time making it clear that she would love me not one iota less if I failed. READ MORE Bill Keller Accuses Me of "Aggregating" an Idea He Had Actually "Aggregated" From Me: In an exceptionally misinformed attack on HuffPost in a column released Thursday, Bill Keller, the executive editor of the New York Times, describes HuffPost's offerings as nothing more than "celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications." I wonder what site he's been looking at. READ MORE
As Gloria Steinem so wisely commented, "A movement is only people moving." In 1965, women were moving, separately, but headed in the same direction.
This month, if you see me, Jennifer Aniston, Robin Williams, Morgan Freeman and George Lopez in a TV spot, in movie trailer, on an airplane or in Internet banner ads, you know we're out there, raising money to pay the bills.
Here we embark on unruly excursions go so far into internal dialogs of the mind that a viewer might think: "how did I end up inside Terrence Howard's head?"
My sudden entry into the digital world has been about more than just keeping up with my nephew. It's been about looking past and engaging with women and friends on the other side of the proverbial one-way mirror.
"God bless a sense of humor." If Marlo Thomas' book has any message at all, it's that, because to have a sense of humor means you have a real chance at living a happier life.
Lifestyle websites are a dime a dozen these days, but when they are the brainchild of Bob Pittman - the former AOL chief operating officer who has len...
"Mommies are people. People with children. When mommies were little they used to be kids, like some of you, but then they grew, and now mommies are wo...
There's a good reason why we aren't hearing from Sandra Bullock these days. "It's impossible to just say a few words," says veteran public relations s...
In the role of the autistic, gruff voiced writer, educator, scientist, inventor, and consultant Temple Grandin, Claire Danes is as unglamorous as a glamorous movie star can be.
How about this Mother's Day we all give ourselves a break, pick up Ayelet Waldman's latest book, Bad Mother, put our feet up, eat some chocolate, and pat ourselves on the back.
To win on American Idol you have to have a good voice, personality, and poor birth control. It seems like every contestant has at least one child.
Love, Loss and What I Wore is a series of pieces performed by five wonderful actresses, all about clothes we've loved and the memories they trigger. And our mothers, our mothers, our mothers.
The success of web-based interactive dolls like Webkinz indicates that boys respond to toys that tap into their fatherly instincts; for the month of October alone, boys made up 36% of the site's visitors.