Catch Your Second Wind

Size 12 model Katya Zharkova, 28, poses nude in the shoot alongside a 'straight-size' model to demonstrate the differences between them.

Take a second breath and check out the pictures of this luscious plus-size model. The girl's got legs going up all the way into her arm pits, height does matter!

That book you wrote but haven’t yet published, the dance you choreographed that hasn’t been performed, the lyrics you carefully polished that hav...

I opened the link to this post and thought: "Are you talking to me?" Today, January 1, 2012 I woke up and thought, okay, this is it. I'm going to read through my manuscript for Forgiveness as though I'm working on an assignment. I'm going to apply myself to this project the way I have applied myself to reviews of other writers' books, p/reviews of shows and exhibitions.

I'm going to approach my own number one project as just that, my number one project of the New Year.

The title of this book is True Secrets of Lesbian Desire. Truth is, those secrets are any woman's, and you don't have to be gay (or a woman) to appreciate Stendhal's thoughts on the subject; it's of  value for hetro couples as well. The author and I both have a background in theater arts in Europe, and we're pen pals on SheWrites.com, a women writers' platform. That's how I discovered she's a wise woman. And her wisdom ought to be shared across the board.

After posting a link to the French book on women's secrets to pleasure, I remembered this small book, and think it deserves attention outside the niche suggested by the title. The subtitle "Keepting Sex Alive in Long-Term Relationships" is right on, although I would say the word "intimacy" could be easily substituted for sex.

These are suggestions that can help you with the symptoms of menopause using yoga.

Wonderful notion expressed by Donna Davidge: "Experience old age of youth in your 40s, and experience the youth of old age in your 50s."

This lady knows what she's talking about, the changes in aging bodies, and how to carefully work with what's a given and help you stretch and feel better. There's even a cooling yoga position :-)

Crone Magazine - Women Coming of Age explores the gifts and concerns of women who seek to fully embrace Earth’s cycles of life, death, transformation and spirit.

Caroline Sutherland is a medical intuitive and wellness expert who focuses on weight loss, nutrition, diet, women's health issues, hormone balancing and anti-aging from a physical, emotional and spiritual perspective.

Ruth Kobin turned 100 years old in September, and she was up for the celebration: Not only did she have several dinners with family and friends, but she took of...

This article in The New York Times is a follow-up on an earlier publication in the paper's Magazine of October 5, 2011.

While its title was "Can Cancer Ever Be Ignored?" the accompanying illustration's text "DO I HAVE CANCER" jumped off the page. I'll scoopit! as well, so you'll see both pieces side-by-side. 

One critic, Skip Lockwood, head of Zero a prostate-cancer patient advocacy group, remarked that the chief medical and scientific officer of the American Cancer Society, Otis Webb Brawley is more concerned about saving men's sex lives than about saving the men themselves.

So? or Eh? What do you think?

The discussion reminds me teh different possibilities of breast cancer screening, and the choice of treatment/ no treatment at different phases in a person's lifetime.

When IS medicine worse than the disease?

N.Y.T.'s editorial of October 11:

"The warning that the P.S.A. test may cause men more harm than good is information that can guide patients and doctors to make better decisions."

SINGLE AND HAPPY IS MORE BETTER THAN MARRIED AND STRESSED OUT, AND DOWN
At times one can't help but wonder about the conclusions of research. "Open Doors" as the Dutch say, common sense doesn't count (numbers) though, statistics do.
Excerpt from article: "Several new studies, for instance, show that the marriage advantage doesn’t extend to those in troubled relationships, which can leave a person far less healthy than if he or she had never married at all.
One recent study suggests that a stressful marriage can be as bad for the heart as a regular smoking habit.
And despite years of research suggesting that single people have poorer health than those who marry, a major study released last year concluded that single people who have never married have better health than those who married and then divorced."

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