Wishing well

What easily struck me the most about Kael Robinson, founder of Live Worldly, is that she is just 29 years old. Her business is not just about selling jewelry like Brazilets and other goods, it’s about being socially conscious and globally aware. Today’s...

Spotlighting ‘Miss Representation’

What a pleasure to interview Jennifer Siebel Newsom, director of the documentary Miss Representation (airing on OWN tomorrow). Her passion for the project and her ongoing interest in the cause of promoting awareness of media images of women is inspiring. The film...

More Ernaux

This week’s assignment for Women Write Their Lives class at NYU is to read A Woman’s Story by Annie Ernaux. What a completely different experience from her work in A Frozen Woman, which we read last week. This book was roughly half the size, so I zipped...

Walking the gratitude talk

So there’s been a weekend and a day for me to digest the events of Friday, one in which my Game Plan column about Oprah’s Lifeclass went live on FoxBusiness.com. It seems that while I was punching a bag at the gym in the morning, feeling my power and...

Tuning in to ‘Lifeclass’

The way I see it, we can put our time into things that make us better people or we can funnel it into bringing ourselves and others down. No brainer for me. Keep the shows about supposed ‘housewives’ and give me something like Oprah’s Lifeclass on...