Getting together to sew quilts, exchange news, and enjoy one another’s recipes constituted the pioneer quilting bee.  This often was a rare social time for these ladies who were busy with the day-to-day work (drugery in some cases) of running a household and helping with farm chores. 
Today, quilting and crafting ladies still get together for what I’d call “modern” quilting bees.  As I read Cindy’s Stitches in Time blog post about friends getting together to work on quilt kits they had purchased at quilt show, I pondered on the many types of quilting bees in today’s world of the computer and Internet.

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There isn’t a woman around that doesn’t feel awkward about her body a little. Most of us have some issues here and there with at least one body part.
Glamour magazine wanted to find out what women really thought about their bodies, and more than that, why some women felt confident while others didn’t. They did their very first “body survey” in 1984. Do the words “leotards” and “high-impact aerobics” ring a bell at all? That was 1984. During that first survey, “75 percent of women surveyed felt they were too fat, and more than 60 …read more

Today I’ve got something for the men. AOL Health has a piece on the best exercise for even better sex.  C’mon guys, grab your weights, and lets get busy.

*Push-ups – Men need good upper body strength to support themselves in the missionary position.  Push-ups build muscles and help increase endurance. They don’t mention it, but the yoga position known as The Plank would also help here. Lean forward with forearms along the floor, hands in fists, feet bent down, toes on floor. Lift mid-section off the floor and support your weight on forearms and toes. Try to keep your body in …read more

Tonight, after a night out carousing (we’re currently on a girlfrends getaway), my best friend related a story about how, once upon a time, as she was young, she would love to pick dogweeds and put them in her hair.
“They looked so pretty…but later I realized, they smelled really bad.”
I wonder if that may be symbolic of the mistakes ALL of us keep on making in our relationships…going for the guys that are wrong for us, and are bad for us, but yet, we are attracted to anyway.
Why do we insist on doing this to ourselves???
I’m sad. Sad for me, …read more

People are buzzing these days about the pop singer Rihanna and her boyfriend Chris Brown. Brown has been charged with assaulting Rihanna. Soon after the incident, she apparently got back together with him.
Rihanna has become the public face for domestic abuse, as her story is all-too common. According to one source, domestic violence, “is the most common cause of injury to women ages 15-44.”
Suffering abuse is bad enough. But it also changes the way women behave in relationships from that point forward. If women stay in a bad relationship, they are “likely to stop trusting …read more

Maybe you too saw the Oprah’s on Hormones?
It occurs to me, watching all those angry, frustrated, fed-up women. . .
Perhaps it is only hormones that makes women put up with so much of everyone’s shit.
Maybe, when we’re in our mid-to-late late 30s, 40s, and 50s – we’ve had enough already.
Perhaps it’s the lack of estrogen that makes women finally stop. Putting up with the world’s shit, I mean.

No kidding.
Its evidence of God and Santa if any was ever needed.
Bratz will no longer be on the shelves after Christmas, the courts ordered the molds broken! The name can no longer be used.
More info over at Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me
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Can I just say this?
We keep hearing from heads of state, political candidates, senators, congressmen, businessmen, mainstream media and Wall Street that the United States is suffering from a labor shortage.
I call bullshit.
Look across the dinner table and see that beautiful wife? See your brazen sister, your wise mother and the really smart neighbor?
She’s not just a “SAHM.”

She has a masters degree.
She has a doctorate degree.
She’s got 10 to 20 years of experience in the labs, in the newsroom, in the office, in the market, on wall street, in the classroom, in virtually every …read more

Am I the only one who pretends I’m Bill Gates watching those Apple commercials? How does Bill Gates feel watching those commercials?
It makes me giggle because it’s true. It’s sooo true.
And it’s about freaking time they included some women.
OK – I just love that they called her genius instead of geek. Not that I don’t love the name, Geek Squad. I so do. I just love that they were presumptuous enough to use the word Genius.

Ever read news and go, “Well, duh. It took them long enough to get there?” I recently had a conversation with Jeanne Connor Dessert. She’s struggled with endometriosis.
Endometriosis is a painful, chronic disease that affects 5.5 million women and girls in the USA and Canada, and millions more worldwide. It occurs when tissue like that which lines the uterus (called the endometrium) is found outside the uterus.This misplaced tissue develops into growths or lesions which respond to the menstrual cycle in the same way that the tissueof the uterinelining does:each month the tissue builds up, breaks down, and sheds. Menstrualbloodflows …read more