Today's Woman back issues from October 2008:
Jennifer Hunt
Oct 01, 2008; ... Fitness Jennifer Hunt "Jailbreak Jenny" Age: 38 Account services administrator and office manager for the Louisville Palace Theatre, and adjunct professor of theatre arts at Kentucky Community and Technical College System WHAT SHE DOES: Jennifer Hunt's ...
30 Rules About Surviving Breast Cancer
Oct 01, 2008; ... Rule #1 Find people to help you keep it together. My faith in God and a wonderful support group. My husband was my caregiver and he did a great job! Kathy Backherms, 55, 11-year survivor Rule #2 Keep it normal. Worked as much as possible to make things as normal ...
FaLLing for Fall
Oct 01, 2008; ... I don't think I could live where there are no changes of seasons. For me, there is something exciting and magical about the differences brought about by each new season. Fall is by far my favorite. It does not matter that this is the worst time of year for my allergies and ...
FIND A NEED: Rae Strobel
Oct 01, 2008; ... One by one, each villager brought something special to add to the pot. Pretty soon, right before their eyes, there was a delicious soup - enough to feed the whole village. They all sat down together to enjoy their soup - and the miracle they'd help to create. - Anonymous, adapted from a ...
Fears
Oct 01, 2008; ... Ghosts and goblins may be in this time of year, but do you scare yourself silly even when it's not Halloween? This month, examine whether your fears are stealing your serenity or are they telling you, it's time to pay closer attention to something inside your body, mind, or spirit. Body: ...
NATURAL REMEDIES FOR TEENAGE DEPRESSION: Do They Work? Are They Safe?
Oct 01, 2008; ... Jennifer is a 15-year-old student at a local high school. Her grades have taken a nose dive, she's having difficulty sleeping, and she's lost her appetite for food, fun, and friends. Jennifer's mother, Katie, is worried. She believes that Jennifer is depressed. Because of a fear about the safety ...
If You Want the Good Life
Oct 01, 2008; ... We're inspired by stories of people who seem to have "the good life" - whose talents, passions, and values are in alignment and who regularly feel a powerful sense of personal fulfillment. PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIFESTYLES RICH IN PURPOSE HAVE COMMON threads: * a purpose larger than ...
Taking a Time-Out
Oct 01, 2008; ... It's not fair that children get all the fun of taking time-outs. Adults can use the time apart, too. While the benefits may be different for us, they can still be vitally important. THINK ABOUT HOW IT WORKS. YOU'RE FIVE YEARS OLD. You lose two spoons making mud pies, you filch three ...
Winners of the Today's Girl Essay Contest
Oct 01, 2008; ... These three winners receive two tickets to the American Girl Fashion Show on October 10. This fashion show is a fund raiser for the Children's Hospital Foundation. Here are the winners with some excerpts from their winning entries. Congratulations and thanks to all the girls who shared their ...
Melanie Ratliff
Oct 01, 2008; ... Visual artist. Interior designer. Environmental activist. Landscape designer. Entrepreneur. Traveler and explorer. Connoisseur of good food. Collector of antiques. There doesn't seem to be much in life that Melanie Ratliff, 45, doesn't touch with her creativity and passion. As a newcomer ...
THE UNSINKABLE DORIS ROBERTS
Oct 01, 2008; ... On Sept. 4, 2002, actress Doris Roberts testified before a U.S. Congressional panel about how the entertainment industry has made aging a detriment to hiring. It goes without saying that Roberts used as an example that in 1996 when she auditioned for (and eventually won) the role of Marie Barone ...
TODAY'S makeover
Oct 01, 2008; ... Removing 12 to 14 inches of Marketta Townsend's hair was quite a dramatic move, but she's not complaining. "I was a little nervous about it, but the new length is so much easier. The look is cleaner and sharper too." The cut gives her hair a smooth, flowing, voluminous look, says Lynn ...
Comfort Food of the Irish
Oct 01, 2008; ... The cover of Viki Pidgeon's newest Irish cookbook features a colored-pencil illustration of a sheep leaning cross-legged against a tree, cradling a bowl of soup. In the background are rolling green hills, a stone wall and a distant castle, beyond which one can imagine a crystal blue loch. The ...
What Is She READING?
Oct 01, 2008; ... WhO She iS: Mary Popham, 67. After retiring from GE, Mary earned an MFA in Writing from Spalding University in 2003. She's a freelance writer who lives in Clifton with her husband. Her two daughters and twin grandchildren live in Louisville. Two or three days a week she cares for her mother, 93, ...
Personal Peek: Heidi Hulon
Oct 01, 2008; ... Unearthing what you're passionate about can be an arduous process. For some, that realization comes packaged at birth. Veterinarian Dr. Heidi Hulon's passion materialized 36 years ago at the early age of 5, brought about by her fascination with her neighbor's horses. This childhood ...
Books to Fuel Your Passion
Oct 01, 2008; ... It's difficult to determine which book is going to help you find your passion and keep your mojo flowing. The bookstore shelves are lined with hundreds of how-to guides within this genre. Oprah has a new one for you nearly every week. And if that's not enough, you can always spend hours (weeks?) ...
PET Panache: How We Did It
Oct 01, 2008; ... We have seen photo shoots where the animals are made to look like their owners, but not where the owners are made to look like their animals. We loved this idea enough to work hard enough to make it a reality. It wasn't easy, but here is a little background story about how we did it. Up ...
Keep Cash In Your Purse
Oct 01, 2008; ... It seems like these days everyone is searching for new ways to save money. Around town, it may be easier than you think. We give you some great ideas on how to keep more money in your pocket. From carpooling with neighbors to getting cheaper rates on massage treatments, you won't come up ...
Do Your Homework, then VOTE
Oct 01, 2008; ... I MAKE IT A POUCY NOTTO GET ON MY POUTICAL SOAPBOX while occupying space in this corner of Today's Woman. There's so much being written, reported, exaggerated, and proliferated; what more could I possibly add? However, this year's presidential election has forced me to make an ...
HER THOUGHTS
Oct 01, 2008; ... What Is Your Passion? Elizabeth DelSignore, 40 Oujner of Sister fignes Soops, Frankfort Avenue Her passion: soaps "I love ladybugs. My sister brought me a bar of soap with a ladybug design throughout the soap. I loved the design and the fragrance, so when my ...