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Anyone can write. When we write we spill the mind onto the page—we see the mind, we see our thoughts. This seeing makes us the see-er of our thoughts. There are our thoughts on the page (the object), and here we are (the subject). This process of externalizing and seeing…

I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that there is a shift in medicine taking place—not only because patients are demanding more natural, preventive approaches, but because a new generation of doctors is leading the way. No one embodies this new paradigm of medicine more than Suzanne…

When you meet someone as happy and radiant as Flavia Finnegan, wife, mother and career woman, it’s hard to imagine that she ever felt fear or trauma. Yet traumatic events can happen to anyone. Flavia, now 40, grew up in Brazil and as part of her undergraduate work as an…

Within ourself, in our own consciousness, we can enliven what is sometimes called the creative, nourishing, feminine aspect of nature. But what does it mean? How do we experience it? What does it do for us? Let’s start by talking about the basis of everything: We refer to the silent…

Sasha Kamini Parmasad, an educator, visual artist, and award-winning writer, is the daughter of a Trinidadian historian-poet-songwriter and a lawyer who devoted many years of their lives to the struggle for social justice. Sasha began composing poetry at age five and began performing her father’s Indian folk songs, poems, folktales,…

In the March 24 NY Times magazine section there was an article by Parul Sehgal called “How ‘Flawless’ Became a Feminine Declaration”. Most of the article is dedicated to the current uses of the word, mostly in terms of either natural feminine beauty or artifice. However, the article closes with…

Last fall at a local college campus, the laughter from a group of diverse students caught my attention. They were from various cultural backgrounds: Hispanic, African American, Asian, European/Caucasian. A young man approached them—large, ebony, with intellectual-looking glasses—and was greeted with surprise and a high five by a skateboarding-toting Hispanic…

On March 23rd, Womens enews.org featured an article about Atlanta’s Spelman College. It said: The historically black college for women decided it was time to do something major to redraw its student body’s alarming health profile: “We’ve been greeting incoming freshmen students who were pre-hypertensive, overweight, obese,” says its health…

Being a professional ballerina can be hard on your health, mentally and physically. For Megan Fairchild, age 30, a principal at the New York City Ballet who danced the role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in PBS’ telecast of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, stress almost derailed her career. On the…

As tensions rose in Paris and demonstrations swept Western Europe last January, people around the world wondered how to stop religious intolerance and promote peace and goodwill among all people. Yet with racial and religious hostilities worldwide reaching a six-year high, as reported in the Pew Research Center’s Religion &…