The year ended with number crunching – and re crunching – and excruciating cost-cutting. My gutsy business development director, Robin Washington, waved me toward the door early. “Go,” she said, beaming. “We’re about...

New year, new hopes, new resolutions, and the same old problem in Italy: why is it that Italian women, among whose numbers can be found some of the world’s sexiest females, don’t make more babies? Seeing Italian women undulating down the streets...

Women Over 50 Ellen DeGeneres, who is almost 51, is now a cover girl for Cover Girl. www.covergirl.com Glen Close is on the cover of AARP, January issue. www.aarpmagazine.org/inspire . Meredith Vieira is on the Cover of More magazine, December issue....

While passing through a toll booth this week, I heard my 4-year-old in the back seat yell, "Throw more quarters, Mom!" I was hit by a "teachable moment" and I didn't know where to begin. Since that day, I've started saving...

I am days away from finishing an amazing journey of connecting with women internationally. The beauty of social networking is that you can connect with women all over the world. I have met some fabulous women in 2008 and built some great and lasting connections...

Just a few months back, before it became so ridiculously cold, I bought a gorgeous purple coat in a consignment shop. It was a designer coat, in perfect shape, and I swear it should've cost about $1,000. But for $150 I bought what had been someone...

At a conference the other day, I asked two women how they felt about the U.S. auto industry bailout. The two women, who had been amiably chatting a moment before, suddenly turned angry. "Yeah, we’ve gotta have it!” The other said: “Bailout...