Have you ever heard of Dawn Meehan? If you’re a follower of her blog, Because I Said So, then you already know where this is going, but if not, then let me tell you a little about her and her new book, You’ll Lose the Baby Weight (And Other Lies About Pregnancy and Childbirth). It…
Category Archives: Women’s Interest
On Reading: Mirror, Mirror
Mirror, Mirror… On the wall.. Well, soon to be on my wall. The mirror, that is, that my eight year old daughter, Grace, brought home from her art workshop the other day in Manhattan while we were on vacation there. Grace could have chosen to create so many things but she picked this mirror. On…
Brave Girl Eating
When I was a teen, I was into reading fiction about girls with anorexia, which at that time (mid-80′s) was pretty new. I even thought that I might want to become a psychologist or psychiatrist due to the empathy that was borne in me from reading about the inexplicable struggle that these young girls go…
The Lost Girls
The Lost Girls: Three Friends. Four Continents. One Unconventional Detour Around the World. is the story of 3 late-twentysomething women who left their jobs and personal lives behind in New York City to travel the world for an entire year. Jennifer Baggett, Holly C. Corbett, and Amanda Pressner each come to the trip for different…
What God Really Thinks About Women
I saw a copy of What God Really Thinks About Women: Finding Your Significance Through the Women Jesus Encountered at the Book Expo and was curious to find out what it was about. So I was delighted to have it land in my mailbox where I could read it and peruse at length. I should…
You Can Still Wear Cute Shoes
You Can Still Wear Cute Shoes: And Other Great Advice from an Unlikely Preacher’s Wife addresses many of the challenges and questions faced by women married to the ministry, pastor’s wives wondering about their role—and the expectations thereof–in their husband’s calling. Written from the trenches by real life pastor’s wife Lisa McKay, You Can Still…
Radical Homemakers
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! What didn’t I love and enjoy about Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture!?! This book was penned from my heart and I didn’t even know it! I was pulled into this book on reclaiming the art of homemaking from the get-go: “Ordinarily a calm public speaker, my hands shook…
Books on Screen: Molly Ringwald movies
In Molly Ringwald’s new book Getting the Pretty Back: Friendship, Family, and Finding the Perfect Lipstick, she looks back on her teen years that she spent on the big screen. Molly Ringwald is about my age, and so I grew up watching her, and the John Hughes movies that she starred in are so typically…
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