Health, Fitness and Style
Elaine Soloway's Caregiving Series: Matching Bands
Our gold wedding rings still encircle our fingers, but we’ve added an accessory just a few inches below these symbols of our union. We wear matching black flex bands with 2-inch-wide stainless metal plates. The engraving on the the inside of Tommy's reads: "Call Wife, Elaine Soloway," and my cell phone number. more »
Making Us Into Make-Believers: Hype and Hope; Before and After
What did women do before such hype and hope? How did our aging female ancestors cope when they looked into a glass darkly? By what right did a weathered face go from possessing “character” to pleading for revitalization? And when did we buy into the expectation of living longer, while not looking as though we had? more »
Dear Speaker Boehner: Listen to the overwhelming outcry from American women who support access to contraception
As we have heard from countless women in our home states and here on Capitol Hill, they are tired of being targets for a political strategy that endangers their health care and they want it to stop ... It’s time for you to put an end to the attacks on women’s health care and to work with the Senate to get back to the American people’s top priority: creating jobs and boosting our economy. more »
"Don't Mess With Texas Women Bus Tour"; Losing Options for Health Care
What's Next? Medicaid Women's Health Program and Title X Family Planning? "Planned Parenthood is hitting the road on the 'Women’s Health Express,' crisscrossing the state to make sure Rick Perry gets our message: stop playing politics with women's lives" more »
