My sister was telling me how she spent the weekend with some other couple friends & their kids. “All of the other ladies had really important jobs, like being a lawyer or doctor. And then there was me,” she told me. Now, wait a second. You run a business, I said. That’s a job. A [...]

When my daughter, Quincy was born, I worried about raising a daughter in a world filled with so many negative messages about what it means to be a woman. I thought surely it would be easier to raise a son. After all, maleness is generally more valued. My opinion has changed however, since adopting our [...]

Did you know the Code of Hammurabi mentions wet nursing, and that European women in the 13th century earned more money from wet nursing than by any other profession? And did you know that the tradition of wet nursing continues today through a  network of milk banks?
If you’ve been following my posts, you already know [...]

World Population Day was July 11. How did you honor it?
I read a statement from the United Nations Development Fund’s Executive Director, Thoraya Ahmed Obaid. We’ve written in the past about maternal mortality, and now is the time to revisit it. When women have access to reproductive health care (and by that I mean access [...]

Gols, I sure do have a lot of creative and amazing friends. And some of them are lucky enough to make their living being creative and amazing. Last week, one of ‘em was in town promoting his new album (he’s on a world tour) and called me up to see if I could come to [...]