My Mom has Alzheimer's.

She doesn't know what time of the day it is, let alone the day of the week, or the month.

Sometimes she doesn't know even know the season of the year. Or what she just ate. Or the name of her cat.

One day soon she won't know who I am either.

But even in her demented state of mind, she knows it's wrong to torture people, she knows that sometimes you

Dr. Janet Rose Wojtalik has seven powerful “secrets” to share about parenting girls – secrets that will help today’s moms and dads create the strong, independent, amazing women of the future.

One of three children born to working-class parents, Wojtalik says she herself struggled to break free from negative, gender-biased parental and societal messages, and the fear of failure, to eventually

As post-election trauma and violence sweep across Iran, the powerfully positive forces of music and dance are also at work transforming our world.

Today, I was exposed to two inspirational musical initiatives, one of which I’d like to share with you now (I’m saving the other one for later).

One year ago today, I wrote my first-ever blog entry (Like A Virgin?), in which I joined "the millions online who share their joys, sorrows, thoughts, ideas, opinions and more, in a worldwide orgy of information."

At the time, I thought it marked the end of a journey, and so I wrote:

Most of the time I’ve traveled alone. I got lost, stumbled, tripped, fell, took wrong turns, and had to

A few weeks ago, on a flight to Kuwait, I met a young American soldier who was headed back to Iraq after a two-week furlough with his wife in Australia.

Of the five years they’ve been married, they’ve spent a total of only two together, because he’s been serving in Iraq for most of their married life.

I learned during our conversation that his tours of duty are each one year long,

It’s hard to know where to begin. Or whom I should thank first.

With Terry Netto of People Potential? For inviting me to the February Initiatives of Change conference held in Kuala Lumpur? If it hadn’t been for that invitation, I wouldn’t have come to Malaysia this year in the first place.

Terry connected me to Susanna who in turn introduced to me to an impressive list of amazing

 

Calling all female entrepreneurs in Dubai (and the rest of the UAE!) - you are invited to the launch event of Heels & Deals - the ultimate network for female entrepreneurs!

Heels & Deals is for women who own their own business or are a partner in a business, are self-employed, or are dreaming of starting up. Join us to meet other like-minded female entrepreneurs, share inspiration and

Zainah Anwar’s great grandfather, an Islamic scholar who divided his time between Saudi Arabia and Malaysia, married an Abyssinian slave girl he bought in Mecca.

Her grandfather had a total of seven wives (not all at the same time).

She says her mother waited on her father hand and foot, and her brother never did a lick of housework – not the kind of family history one might expect

Today is my birthday.

Well, okay, today isn’t EXACTLY my birthday, because when you write something for publication, wherever it might be, there’s usually a delay between the time you write it, and the time you see it “in print,” or in this case “online.”

Unless of course you’re commenting on something like YouTube for example; when you hit send – presto! – there are your words captured