Divorce is devastating. Whether initiated by you or something you tried to prevent from happening, the end result is the same.  A relationship you had expected and planned to be part of forever has died, and the immediate months or even years after divorce can be much like grieving a death. Similar to the experience […]

I started reading Noelle Hancock’s memoir My Year with Eleanor a few weeks ago because like Hancock, I’m in transition in a lot of areas of my life, and I was feeling the fear — terror actually — bubble up in my body. Hancock, depressed and confused, serendipitously comes across a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt […]

I think it’s a myth that single women have more free time than everyone else. Because I’m single, I’ve noticed people can be cavalier with my time.  They think I can work later, change plans without notice, volunteer more, or help them with whatever they need to do, because I couldn’t possibly have a life. […]

The Weinstein Co. recently picked up U.S. Rights for Madonna’s Royal W.E., a feature length film written by Madonna and Alek Keshishian, about American divorcee Wallis Simpson and the king who would give up his throne to be with her, King Edward VIII. Although the film is being billed as her directorial debut, Madonna did […]

by Sara Avant Stover We women have it all wrong. Happiness doesn’t live in a new hairstyle, handbag, or husband. True contentment waits in the most unlikely of places—right inside of you. That’s right: You alone must become the steward of your own happiness.  Your deepest bliss is neither a miracle nor a far off […]

I’ve been in denial about this moment but now it has finally come.  Today, the Oprah Winfrey Show as we know it, will come to an end. I remember a distant cousin visiting from Austria back in 2003 who didn’t have a clue who she was. I asked him if he had been living under a […]

Yesterday, I popped into MORE’s Reinvention Convention to listen to the Women In Hollywood Panel.  The Convention is an extension of the magazine’s content for smart, professional women, offering them the chance to, “Imagine All Your Possibilities”, on the road to reinvention. The room was packed with at least 500 well-dressed, confident looking women, seemingly […]