“I gotta crow!” Mary Martin sang– hands on her hips, chest up, big smile– demonstrating to Eliza, the Darling family housekeeper, how to boast about herself in Peter Pan.  As a girl, I loved the live-action version of Peter Pan starring a woman… I liked crowing along with her… and I now realize that it was training for sharing that “I am proud” (and not afraid to shout it out loud!) about who I am and what I’ve...

When I heard the buzz about the performance of Rihanna and Britney Spears the day following the Billboard Music Awards, I was peeved for a couple of reasons.   And I hadn’t even seen it yet. First of all, there was buzz.  The fact that people were talking about it means that the uninspired formula worked.   The two singers sang the “S&M remix” while gyrating around two stripper poles, holding chains, neither wearing pants,...

Often, when a celebrity joins up for a humanitarian cause, it can seem dishonest or cloying to the public, especially in this day and age, when it seems as if all celebrities have taken up one cause or another. There is no denying, however, that getting a celebrity on board can drastically effect how many people you reach with your message. Recently, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher,  founded the Demi and Ashton Foundation (DNA) and launched...

This past weekend, I went to see Catherine Hardwicke’s take on the age-old fairy tale “Red Riding Hood.” Since it received a PG-13 rating, I thought that it might be a film that some of our girls could see, and even if they might be a little young for this type of movie now, it’s what they’ll be watching in just a few short years. The story of Red Riding Hood is one that most little girls know. Red Riding Hood...

When Multiservice Eating Disorders Association (MEDA) brought a representative to my college campus a few weeks ago, it was news to me that the last week in February is National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDAwareness Week). In this representative’s excellent presentation, she went over the several types of eating disorders (Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating Disorder, and Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified or...