General Dunwoody, we salute you!
Friday, Nov. 14, 2008
After 33 years in the Army, BoomerGirl Ann E. Dunwoody became the first female four-star general in U.S. military history today. My question is, what took them so long?
Here's the story, and it's a doozy!
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008
Who knew little Marcia Brady was behaving so badly behind the scenes? Well, we ALL do, now. Maureen McCormick has a new tell-all in the bookstores and it's a little TMI for me.
Elizabeth Edwards' grace under pressure
Friday, Sept. 19, 2008
Elizabeth Edwards broke her silence and spoke to the Detroit Free Press this week about her husband's affair, her ongoing battle with cancer, and the legacy she wants to leave her children. Her courage never ceases to impress me.
"The water doesn't know how old you are..."
Monday, July 7, 2008
She's 41 and she just qualified for the Olympics...for the fifth time. Dara Torres, you rock!
Patti LaBelle in her prime
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
It was March of 1975. My two college roommates and I were on our way to New Orleans in my Volkswagen Beetle for a Spring Break adventure. Our plan was to drive all night but by 3 a.m., everyone was dangerously close to nodding off - including me, the driver. Suddenly, "Lady Marmalade" came on the radio, again, and we were good to go the distance.
It's a wonderful life
Monday, June 16, 2008
As a young girl in the early '60s, Anne Taintor was constantly drawing or painting. Little did she know, she would grow up to make a living, not with pencils and brushes, but with scissors, a scanner and vintage women’s magazines.
She knows all the dirt on the Angels
Saturday, May 31, 2008
It's just past 3 a.m. on a chilly Wednesday morning when Erica Ford pulls her tidy 4-year-old SUV into a parking space behind the left-field wall at Angel Stadium.
Always in his corner
Over 10 years, he deceived, he stole and he dealt drugs; and for 10 years she refused to give up on the wayward child, the troubled youth, her foster son
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Patricia Simples will make another long journey Friday, to a prison in southern Illinois, to visit the young man who, against all odds, she has come to consider her son. A guard will escort her to a visiting room, where she will once more wrap her arms around Terrence Strong, and try to hold back the tears.
Clothes closet helps dress for success
Friday, May 23, 2008
The trunk of a car is an unlikely place for a community clothes closet. But Zona Hoggard, an instructor with a Kings County, Calif., occupational program, was desperate.
Woman makes rare gains by living without heart device
Monday, May 19, 2008
Sandy Gaddis felt chills, aches and a fever. But what at first looked like a classic flu bug soon revealed itself as something much worse: a deadly viral infection threatening her heart.
Politician tackles issues — and a grave illness
Saturday, May 17, 2008
A devout Christian, Assemblywoman Sharon Runner suffers from a fatal disease but said she doesn't pray to God for the one thing likely to save her life: someone else's death.
Former prostitute works to save women from streets
Monday, May 12, 2008
In the early morning hours, Dee Dee Perry, 45, gets in her car and does "spiritual drive-bys" along International Boulevard in East Oakland, Calif. She drives up and down the busy corridor known as the "track" looking to proselytize to prostitutes.
Bowling beers is right up her alley
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
By her count, Theresa Fenner has flung about 160,000 beers down the bar at Western Lanes. Schlitz. PBR. Miller. She sent so many cans skidding toward thirsty bowlers that the yellow countertop is scuffed white.
A successful operation: From teen mom to doctor
Sunday, April 27, 2008
She works 12 to 30 hours with no sleep. Often, she skips lunch. But Dr. Karen Morris-Priester doesn't mind. An unwed teenage mother who grew up in a Harrisburg, Pa., housing project, she has gone through much tougher circumstances to achieve a lifelong goal of becoming a doctor.
The queen of Croc
Designer builds empire on exotic handbags
Saturday, April 19, 2008
There is a universe in a single scale of a crocodile, if it's one of Nancy Gonzalez's. It ripples and glistens, melting into tiny slivers of gold, silver, salmon or scarlet.
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