DiabetesSisters (www.diabetessisters.org) has set a goal to raise $1,000 by May 16.
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Goal: Raise $500 to help women with diabetes live happy, healthy lives!
Women with diabetes deserve special consideration because of the extra obstacles they face with puberty, pregnancy, and menopause. Every woman deserves to live a happy, healthy life and reach her full potential….women with [...]
Entries from February 2009
February 23, 2009
Diabetes Sisters
February 18, 2009
Thoughts about illness
I read Liesl Schillinger’s review of ”The Spare Room” in The New York Times Book Review this past Sunday, and was struck by his opening paragraph. He writes that childhood illnesses can be bittersweet. He says,
Memories of the common run of childhood illnesses can be bittersweet. Time blunts the edge of a strep throat, muffles the [...]
February 17, 2009
Personal Essay Writing Class
I’m going to start offering online personal essay writing classes this spring. Here is a brief outline:
The most recognized writing advice has to be “Write what you know.” If you want to mine the depths of your personal experience on paper and see your name in print, then this is the class for you. As [...]
February 1, 2009
My latest essay in skirt! magazine
my grandmother turned around and said, “A woman who has sex before she is married is nothing but a common whore!”
Read more….
Sex Talk
