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To be honest, I really don’t like to exercise. I like the way I feel after and how it shapes my body, but exercising for me is a chore, not fun. And I’m not real keen on dieting either. I love food. So I’m only careful to exercise and maintain…

I used to sometimes be like the scarecrow in Oz, lamenting “If I only had a brain.” The joke about forgetting your head if it weren’t attached didn’t seem so funny. I wondered if, for most women, this mental deficiency was due to aging, multi-tasking, menopause, stress, or “something in…

In 1905, Lola Baldwin had a job in Portland Oregon with a primary focus of social work—protecting young women working at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition. In 1908, due to her success in this assignment, she was sworn in as a police officer with the power to conduct arrests.…

Linda Egenes is the author of more than 500 articles and six books, and with Kumuda Reddy, M.D., she has co-authored three books on preventive health care, including Super Healthy Kids and For a Blissful Baby. A practitioner of the Transcendental Meditation technique since 1972 and a certified teacher, she…

I met Karen Venable, CEO and Founder of Roommates4Boomers, several years ago at a convention. Roommates4Boomers is a national website that matches baby-boomer generation women who want to share housing. I thought Karen’s idea was brilliant (and that her service is sorely needed, since one-third of women over 50 are…

In October, just before Hurricane Matthew threatened Orlando, Florida, the organizers of the annual Magnet conference—the most prestigious and highly attended nursing conference in the USA—invited us to speak on the benefits of the TM program for nurses. Our conference presentation topic was: “Pilot study of the Effects of Transcendental…

When Promila Bahadur was a child growing up in Lucknow, India, she learned at an early age to help those less fortunate. “One time a servant came to me and asked me for food,” she says. “I was only 10 years old, so I told her I had to ask…

This Autumn, the work of women artists will be pervading the art scene from gallery exhibitions to solo shows in museums. Women have always been artists—expressing themselves early on in forms from weaving to ceramics—and in more recent centuries have been patrons, collectors, muses, and critics. The acceptance of women…

Anastasia (Stacey) Hurlin is a mother, an educator, an artist, and an activist; in her case, activist means being an unhesitating proactive mother to the world. She has a keen perception of the remarkable good fortune that she and so many of us have in America—a truth that most of…

As a child, Anna Bruen had an unusual hero: Rachel Carson, the marine biologist who wrote Silent Spring, the startling treatise that alerted the nation to the dangers of DDT. Now 30, Anna finds herself working her dream job in a field not far removed from Rachel Carson’s. As the…