Featured Blog Posts – February 2012 Archive (5)

 Inspirations Day Spa is now open in downtown Sarasota. The day spa extends the quality personal-care services clients have been enjoying for years at Inspirations Salon.  As a special introduction to the spa, massages and facials may be enjoyed for only $49.  A wide range of services are offered by the spa’s highly trained staff:  Massage (Swedish,…

The dust has settled ever so slightly on the Komen-Planned Parenthood eruption.  It seems everyone and their cousin has weighed in on the issue.  Meanwhile, I’ve listened.  My overall perception and opinion of Komen hasn’t changed at all, but I think the depth of my understanding of has.

According to Karen Handel, the emails that Komen was getting in…

Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American sex educator, nurse, and birth control activist. Sanger coined the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established Planned Parenthood. Sanger's efforts contributed to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case which legalized contraception in the United States. Her famous article, The Case for Birth Control, was first published in the WOMAN CITIZEN, Volume 8, February…

On February 21, 1828, the first printing press designed to use Sequoyah's newly invented Cherokee alphabet (a system representing each syllable in the Cherokee language with a separate written character) arrives at New Echota, Georgia. Within months, the first Indian language newspaper, called the Cherokee Phoenix, appeared in print.



To celebrate this phenomenal achievement and to remind us how poorly we have treated our Native…

(The following is a 4women guest blog from Liz Belilovskaya, of I Had Cancer.)

When you or someone you love is diagnosed with cancer, your natural reaction may be to want to find out as much as possible about the disease, from available treatment options, to likely side effects, to the day-to-day…