No more Fat Talk
Enough hating on each other and ourselves! Love your body!
October is Fair Trade month
Fair Trade certified goods — particularly coffee, chocolate, bananas and flowers — help some of the world’s poorest women and children have a better life and a better environment. And in some cases it creates a healthier situation for the consumer as well (ex: fertilizers used on flowers). And it’s totally sexy …
Virga rain
Because I wrote about her here at The Siren, I thought I should let you know that my cousin has died from mesothelioma. She passed away early Friday morning. Thank you to everyone who has given me so much support. It has been a difficult time, especially as this comes on the heels of losing…
Race for the Cure: Re-cap
The 2008 Komen Race for the Cure on May 3 was an awesome experience! Despite coming down with a last-minute cold (boo!), I managed to run, walk and cough my way through my first 5K and raised more than $200 for the charity. Sweet! Here’s some factoids from the local race headquarters: Number of Participants:…
What’s going on?
Just in time for Earth Day, a report from the National Academy of Sciences has concluded that exposure to smog and ozone definitely lead to premature death, putting weight behind the case for lowering air pollution. In wackadoo Earth Day/Equal Pay Day nonsense (a two-fer!): Being a feminist hurts the environment because equal pay means…
You know we’ve got to find a way
Here we are again at Earth Day (officially April 22). And I can’t help thinking — What a difference Al Gore has made. That little Oscar-winning movie, An Inconvenient Truth, and a little thing called a Nobel prize add a surprising amount of clout. I seem to recall that sometime in the middle of the…
Don’t drink the hatorade
Sometimes opportunities to observe the different socialization of men and women come when you least expect. I was out at Lake Mead at 6:30 a.m. today to support my husband as he did the Rage in the Sage triathlon. I happily cheered, snapped photos and served as equipment manager when necessary. But there’s a lot of…
Bad medicine
Like a lot of people, I was pretty freaked out when the news broke last week about a potential link between the prescription drug Singulair and suicides. Singulair, made by Merck, is used to treat asthma (that’s me) and allergies and is available in doses ranging from children to adults. According to news reports, while…
You’re Amazing
Do you like doing things for a good cause? Have you ever done a 5K? If you’re like me you answered yes to the first question and no to the second. Well, I’m in the process of changing both my answers to yes. I’m training for my first 5K. I decided to share, in order…
We all get a little crazy
According to the CDC, one in four teen American girls has an STI (that’s sexually transmitted infection to those my age and older who didn’t know what that meant). Guess teen boys didn’t merit studying because their immune to STIs. But you know who’s to blame for the skyrocketing rates? The federal government’s $1.5 billion…
The Sin City Siren 