My online pal Tanja Cilia who blogs for the Times of Malta knew I had my nose to the grindstone. I was busy compiling a profile on Sarah Palin, McCain's ... Read More

Until today, nobody ever would have mentioned Sarah Palin and Geraldine Ferraro in the same breath. Palin is the popular Republican governor of Alaska, a state that calls to mind wide ... Read More

Want to play golf on the LPGA tour? Then you'd better speak English. That's what the LPGA began telling its members recently, according to Golfweek magazine which broke the story on ... Read More

In her commentary on Hillary Clinton's address at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, Adele M. Stan calls it just short of "a nearly perfect speech." Writing for the Women's Media ... Read More

I just got back from two weeks' vacation in Hawaii, a state six hours behind the news cycle in Washington, D.C. and the East Coast. Because of this time lag, ... Read More

Seth Colter Walls at Huffington Post says Michelle Obama's speech last night was three weeks in the making, and that she started it before she went on vacation with her ... Read More

Tonight just might be the biggest night of Michelle Obama's life. She's front and center at the Democratic National Convention tonight, giving a prime-time speech that will be seen and heard ... Read More

Why is the birth rate of women receiving welfare three times the birth rate of women not on welfare? My colleague Robert Longley, Guide to US Government Info, examines this ... Read More

Ever read an article so powerful that it stays with you for the rest of your life? That happened to me with "Bitter Harvest," a 1999 MS. magazine article on ... Read More

Ask women of a certain age what they know of Joe Biden, Obama's choice for VP, and many will immediately mention the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill hearings back in October 1991. ... Read More

Vitamin D has become the hot topic in health and nutrition news. Articles and recent research suggest the so-called 'sunshine vitamin' may reduce the risk of certain cancers, including breast, ... Read More

The buzz is that we're hours away from Obama's announcement of his VP pick. Over at the Huffington Post, Rebecca Curtis makes one final eleventh-hour pitch for him to choose Hillary ... Read More

According to a US Census report released yesterday, 1 out of every 5 women age 40-44 is childless. That's 20% of that age group, and it's a figure that's doubled ... Read More

In a commentary for the Women's Media Center, Barbara Cohn Schlachet asks the question that I've always wondered - why is it that male politicians are the ones caught cheating? ... Read More

Alternet.org has Ren of Feministe asking, "Where have all the role models for girls and young women gone?" and answering, "Right here." At the Olympics.

We are in good company, you and me. 'We' being readers (and writers) of internet sites geared toward women. Earlier this week, the New York Times cited some statistics: Sites aimed primarily ... Read More

To sell clothing, yogurt, acne medication, and even breakfast cereal, women are featured in commercials and TV spots advertising the product. Okay, fine, that makes sense. We wear, buy, and ... Read More

Mrs. Johnson raised her son Tim right. He's the Beijing bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, and he cares about moms. So much, in fact, that he's blogged about Xian Dongmei, ... Read More

It's LA Times reporter Mary McNamara's assessment of what happened, and the telling words she uses are 'highly scripted.' If you didn't read Elizabeth Edwards' statement about her husband's affair, you ... Read More

Is Kathleen Sebelius, Democratic governor of Kansas, about to be named Obama's running mate? Does she know something she's not telling? Team Obama sent the following email notice out to ... Read More

If you're on the lam from the law (and have been for decades) then why on earth would you agree to be part of a publicity stunt that put your ... Read More

I'm so heartsick about the John Edwards news that I don't have words for it. I was going to watch his ABC Nightline interview but decided I didn't want to ... Read More

Ever seen the M. Night Shyamalan film The Village? In what looks like the 1800s, farming families make the best of a simple life in an idyllic rural village isolated by ... Read More

Meryl Carver is a public defender living in Kansas, a gardener, and a dog lover who shares her life with Moe, Porterhouse, and her Sweet Husband (that last one is ... Read More

RETRACTION: The original version of this post incorrectly spelled the first name of the individual named in the lawsuit with two Ts. This has been corrected as noted below: Remember the ... Read More

Dog lover Bernann McKinney cuddles one of the five puppies cloned from her deceased pit bull Booger. To have her dog cloned, McKinney paid $50,000 to RNL Bio Co., a ... Read More

I'm telling you straight out - I seriously love my dog. Rescued from a puppy mill, he was shell-shocked when we first saw him. He wouldn't make eye contact, move, ... Read More

Ever find yourself glancing over a headline or article in a newspaper or magazine and then immediately turning the page? Something inside your brain screams "SKIP!" I know I do ... Read More

I hope you'll get very, very angry when you read this. I hope you'll curse me out, along with the mainstream media, for our neglect. And I hope you'll realize ... Read More

Have you ever participated in an online forum where an anonymous someone turns really ugly on you and starts saying every disgusting thing under the sun for no apparent reason? You ... Read More

Women enlist in the US military for the same reasons men do - a sense of patriotism, a desire for adventure, a way to cover the costs of a college ... Read More

A lazy weekend day on the back porch. It's midmorning, and my 14-year-old daughter stumbles out of bed, plops herself on the porch swing, and grins at the sight of ... Read More

Blogs are curious things. Sometimes as I browse other people's online musings, I'm reminded of how I felt as a child in a bakery shop or restaurant with a refrigerated ... Read More

Maria Niles runs a marketing and consulting business, enjoys a comfortable middle-class life, and has an extensive network of family support . So why is she possessed by the crazy ... Read More