“There are so many reasons to love him,” Landysh writes on her site. “The way he looks at you. The way he makes you smile. The way he can make you feel so happy and comfortable. You can be as crazy as you want with him. He loves your imperfections and yet thinks you’re perfect!” The […]
The idea of getting braces as an adult may well fill you with horror. For me it brings back images of thick silver train tracks, not to mention cruel jibes from classmates, but times have changed and thanks to the latest technology, braces aren’t the emotionally scarring things they used to be. In fact, today’s […]
The World Health Organization declared a public health emergency of international concern, or PHAIC, on Monday in response to the clusters of microcephaly and neurological abnormalities linked to Zika virus. Zika, which is spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, is strongly suspected to be linked to a new wave of microcephaly cases in Brazil. Babies born with the […]
In my recent Huffington Post article “In The Shadow Of New Age Spirituality,” I documented and commented on the burgeoning scandal regarding New Age spiritual teacher and author Marc Gafni. Whereas some readers may assume that the debacle is relevant only to students and teachers in the New Age movement, I believe that the implications […]
by Mairead Small Staid Poetry magazine’s Editors’ Blog occasionally features online exclusives. This installment comes from Mairead Small Staid. Past exclusives can be found here. In the alphabet recited by nineteenth-century schoolchildren, it followed Z. And per se and, they would say, and per se and. A logogram masquerading as a letter, a letter that […]
More than 3.3 million women are at risk for alcohol-exposed pregnancies, which can result in birth defects, developmental disabilities, miscarriage and fetal alcohol syndrome, according to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report published Tuesday. What’s more, three out of four women who reported wanting to get pregnant “as soon as possible” continued drinking […]
Are we looking in the wrong place when it comes to finding champions who can turn us away from our environmentally destructive ways? Researchers at a university in the United Kingdom believe that hairdressers, rather than politicians, scientists or celebrities, could be the secret weapon in convincing us to reduce our carbon emissions. Given that […]
In a brilliant editorial New Year’s resolution, Women’s Health editor-in-chief Amy Keller Laird recently decided to ban the phrases “bikini body” and “drop two sizes” from future covers of the magazine. The move, while bold, is not unprecedented: the phrases join the already-banned words “shrink” and “diet,” which the magazine did away with last year. […]
