There are times when I actually consider working from home but then I dismiss the idea. Today out of curiosity I checked out the Internet to see what the benefits are working from home. I came across Freelance Mom. The founder of FreelanceMom gives her testimony I was first inspired to create FreelanceMom back when I …
Women and Money
I thought it would be interesting to find out some facts about women and money especially as I used to spend, spend, spend money on clothes, shoes, books and Bibles. I have so many Bibles. The clothes I bought I had to donate because they couldn't fit me. I had to get new clothes when …
Smoking and Women
A long time ago I took one drag on a cigarette and vowed never to touch another one again. It made me cough and I felt terrible. My sister used to smoke but then she stopped. I have a cousin who used to smoke and her lips looked black. I used to work with a …
Bad Posture
Growing up my mother always used to say to me, "Hold up your back" because I slouched. You would think that going to ballet classes would have helped. It didn't. Years later I was still slouching or hunched over my keyboard as I was typing. My fiance used to be on my case. He scolded me every time he …
Pregnancy At 40 and Older – The Risks
I got pregnant when I was forty and had our son when I was forty-one. It was a textbook pregnancy. There were no complications. I didn't have to have an epidural and the actual delivery took under fifteen minutes. The contractions although they were bad, they didn't last long. I have heard some horror stories of …
Eleanor Roosevelt
Earlier this month when I was reading about African American women who made a difference so that I could feature them in the special issue of Notes to Women newsletter, one name kept popping up--Eleanor Roosevelt. I promised myself that I would do a little writeup on her. And here we are. "Where, after all, …
Oscar History Makers
In light of the Academy Awards which are happening this Sunday, I thought I should salute two women who made Oscar history. The first is Halle Berry. Her gut wrenching portrayal in Monster's Ball of a hard-working waitress struggling to raise an obese son while her husband sat on death row earned her the Best Actress Oscar, making …
Post Pregnancy Belly
It has been close to three years since I gave birth to my son but still my tummy is still high. I look at other women who were pregnant around the same time as I was and their tummies are flat. You never would guess that they had babies. I have been trying to get …
The Benefits of Education
I am so thankful that I was born and raised in a country where education was easily accessible. My gender was not a factor in the quality of education I received as it is, unfortunately in some countries. I learned History, Geography, Social Studies, French and I loved English. My interest in writing began when I …
Love Your Heart
February is heart disease awareness month. I was surprised to learn that heart disease is the number one killer in women. Once when I went to the doctor, he told me that I had an irregular heartbeat. He prescribed regular aspirin. I never worried about my heart. And I read that women are mostly concerned …
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