I must admit as a woman I fear for the future of our daughters. I am lucky my husband has had a vasectomy. I say lucky, because I cannot have children. In my life, I have had five miscarriages. I f

  I am a feminist, to me,woman = feminist. Feminism means different things to people. For me,it just means respecting women as much as men and thus giving women the same rights and opportunities as m

  Some women never give up. Take Diana Nyad for example. Nyad, born August 22, 1949 in New York City, is attempting to complete a long-distance swim she attempted more than 30 years ago. Someti

Ana Gonzales Lewis (right) and her daughter Joli   Children's stories often have magical folk. Sometimes they offer the heroine three wishes. I've often thought about how best I'd use those w

    Sexy! Carmelina Vargas is definitely that and more as she sings and sways in her music video Love: "Turn off the lights. Take off our clothes. The rest is for no one to know... The

  Question: Suppose you are the only adult around when a child begins to drown in a swimming pool. There are other children nearby, but they are too young to help. You see nothing in the pool

Here's the latest press on my new book Living in the Heartland: Three Extraordinary Women's Stories . The book signing went well. I got to meet Ife's uncle. He was so proud of her he bought two

  In December 2008, a woman was arrested in an Atlanta courthouse. Lisa Valentine, 40, said her human and civil rights had been violated by the judge who cited her for contempt of court w

  My friend Leslie (moondustwriter.com) asked her readers earlier in May to write something in 160 characters. She challenged: "What can you do in 160 characters? A story surely not! I have titl

    Having lived most of my life along the coast - Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf - I am particularly concerned about the devastation that the Louisiana coastal region is facing since BP's