by Laura SillermanWell, we may be beyond the leak in the dike stage in this economy, but we’re not beyond the point where individuals can stem leaks in order to keep the flood from carrying our neighbors away.Being grown women we have a way to not only plug a leak, but to stop new ones from develo...

"My Rosa Parks Moment" Jill Nelson, 56, had thought herself incapable of being swept away by fuss like inaugural balls. She's written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Essence, as well as two memoirs. Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience, about her experience writing for t...

There are so many remarkable aspects in today’s events. But once again, I was struck by the power of Obama himself: Throughout this entire process, he has exerted an air of calm, steady, directed focus and control. He seems effortlessly wise, and well, grown-up, as when he said today, “the time ...

By Elizabeth Willse, Contributing Editor Billie Jean King: Pressure is a Privilege: Lessons I've Learned from Life and the Battle of the SexesOn Sept. 20, 1973, Billie Jean King competed against Bobby Riggs in a hard-fought Battle of the Sexes. Her victory not only made tennis history, but marked th...

In the third week since the Israeli military began attacking Gaza in "Operation Cast Lead," the women of Neve Shalom / W�ħat as-Sal�m--a cooperative town in the "no man's land" along the Israel-Palestine border--are making an impassioned and, we'll admit, sexist cry for peace. In this intentional...

This week, as the world knows, Oprah Winfrey famously begins her journey back to a healthy weight. As Jo Levy writes for Examiner.com:It is something to think about when a billionaire with chefs and personal trainers has a hard time saying no to food how the average person without those resources ca...

By Patricia Yarberry AllenIt is hard to find something that is good for the butt, brain biochemistry, balance both physical and spiritual, bra fat, back fat and burning off all those holiday calories. I have found a new exercise program that does all this and more. Boxing…that’s right, fighting....

- by Chris LombardiIt's a voice I hardly remember not having heard: the writer in the edgy science-fiction anthologies, the voice cool as ice, the material borderline radical. Not a writer I much liked at first, but the stories stayed with me: "The Girl Who was Plugged In" (turned later into an epis...

by Julia Kay For most of the 90s and early 2000s I lived in large live-work warehouses and made mural-sized paintings. My Oakland, California living spaces were hard to heat, hard to cool, and hard to keep clean, but I was clearly living the life of an artist. The paintings were hard to sell, hard t...

A personal essay by Chris LombardiA blast from the recent past: The day after the snowstorm, Queens Boulevard had its usual martial look. City snowplows had made quick corridors, long since finished off by relentless traffic, while sculpting on each side massive walls of hard-packed snow, some shape...