Happy Birthday, Jane Fonda: 73 and Fabulous!
Jane Fonda is celebrating her 73rd birthday today (December 21). Her parents named her Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda after an ancestor who was the third wife of Henry VIII. She’s just […]
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Jesse Jones: Sending Get Well Wishes
Jesse Jones is a hero to the little guy in Seattle. Hundreds of people call him every week at KING5 (NBC) hoping to “Get Jesse” to remedy an injustice. Mr. Jones, who […]
Poll: Empowering Girls & Women # 1 Global Priority
The William J. Clinton Foundation is conducting a poll to set global priorities for the organization: Empowering Girls & Women Strengthening Market-Based Solutions Enhancing Access to Modern Technology Harnessing Human Potential I was […]
Scrooge Is Alive and Well and Living in D.C.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is one of my favorite books. Anna Quindlen claims she makes an annual trip to see the original manuscript. I have a collection of […]
Survive, Thrive, Joy 101: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is the most important concept I learned during almost a decade of university education. It’s basic. It’s profound. It brilliantly distills complex intellectual theory into something anyone […]
Saving Promise Comes to Seattle
Ginny Nicarthy, author of Getting Free: You Can End Abuse and Take Back Your Life and You can Be Free: An Easy-to-Read Handbook for Abused Women, kicked off L.Y. Marlow’s Saving Promise 10-city […]
Celebrating Survivors: What the Color Purple Can Learn from Pink; A Review of PROMISE ME by Nancy G. Brinker
Breast Cancer Awareness Month (1984) is only three years older than Domestic Violence Awareness Month 1987). So, why is pink the predominant color in October? Nancy G. Brinker. If you think […]
Blitz Oprah’s Producers: Color Me Butterfly and Saving Promise Grassroots Campaign
Oprah’s last season launches on September 13, 2010. I’m one of those ultimate viewers who has been watching since day one when her show was A.M. Chicago. My life shifted […]
Please Vote: Jimmie Briggs for GQ’s Better Men Better World Search
V-Day’s Eve Ensler is asking us to vote for V-Men’s Jimmie Briggs in GQ’s The Better Men Better World search. Mr. Briggs is a gentle giant, shy, award-winning […]
Please Support and Vote for Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
Sen. Patty Murray in Bothell, WA Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) came to her home town of Bothell, WA to kick off her campaign for re-election. She joked with the crowd that she thought her […]
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