My mother was a cartophile. A lover of maps and atlases. She had a keen curiosity about faraway places and would explore the world from the birds-eye view of a map resting on her lap, her right index finger tracing mountain ranges, roads and rivers like a braille reader. On family road trips of
I’ve been thinking lately about kindness — not so much random acts of kindness, but rather small, intentional acts. I was on the receiving end of much kindness recently, when a health challenge came my way. I learned that when we are least able to help ourselves, when we are at our weakest —
We all want to look our best, for ourselves, the image we want to project be it at work or a special occasion. But it always amazes me what we girls will go through to do so! Unless we want to wear a Mumu every day, at some point we have to wear a
The last in our series of 2015 Wonder Women is perhaps the most significant for our 25th Anniversary. Jan Entwistle hosted the meeting in her living room to talk about the idea of a Women’s Resource Center. She was joined by members of ALTRUSA, AAUW, and the Jr. League. They decided that YES! We
Barbara Zdravecky, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Southwest and Central Florida is our Wonder Woman today. Barbara grew up in a small town outside of Pittsburgh, PA with her two siblings, Janet and Stephen. Daughter to Marge and Larry, Barbara was the first person in her family to go to college, graduating from the
