City Spotlight: Sparrow Gala 2011
Molly and Scott Carney with Deborah and Ira Ginsburg The event was attended by about 700 Sparrow supporters including community leaders, physicians and dignitaries. Funds from this year’s Gala will support Sparrow Hospital’s Cancer Center and Phase I Clinical Trials. The evening’s theme was the “Party after the Party.” You know, the Frank Sinatra,...
Continue ReadingKnow the Score Before You Start Home Improvements
Show of hands: Who’s as ecstatic as I am that winter’s over? Even though New Year’s gets all the hype for resolutions and setting goals, I think the beginning of spring is the perfect time to hit the reset button and start anew. One of my favorite parts of spring is taking care of much-needed work at my house. Well, for the sake of full disclosure, most...
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Roll out the red carpet ― film is coming to Lansing, and it’s coming from all over the world. Michigan-made movies, student work, and international films will be shared on the big screen April 14-17 at the first Capital City Film Festival in Lansing. The festival’s slogan is “There’s film in Lansing” because the organizers want people to recognize...
Continue ReadingBe Beautiful at Home
Being a woman isn’t easy. No matter how we spend our time — retired, business owner, stay-at-home mom, lady of luxury or everything in between, there are still certain beauty standards to which we are all held. I wish I had the time and resources to have all of my beauty needs taken care of at a salon, but unfortunately that’s just not the case. There...
Continue ReadingBiking? There’s an App for That
It’s hard to find anyone today who doesn’t depend on technology. Each of us has our favorite devices or applications that we can’t imagine being without. Over the coming months, I want to have conversations with women throughout the area to find out just how they use technology to make their lives fuller, more organized or just plain more fun! I thought...
Continue ReadingWellness in the Workplace
After the workday is over, many of us run around to get the kids picked up, scramble to prepare something resembling dinner and then we’re off to school functions, extra curricular activities or volunteer meetings. Once we finally arrive home, it’s time to help the kids with their homework and get them ready for bed. You finally have some alone time to...
Continue ReadingFor Pete’s Take: The “Rights” of Spring
So, it’s time for the annual rites of spring in mid-Michigan. Clean the garage, plant some flowers, put away your winter clothes, oh, and keep your car from falling into a pothole. Outside of avoiding the potholes, what happens when you live in a condo and some of those “rights” of spring are taken away from you? Well, for my wife Brenda and me, who...
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Now it’s Back to the Future …
At the CAWLM office, we’ve put our legwarmers away for a while and decided to get back to the future. Not so fast, I say. Spending several months reliving the 80s has brought back so many memories and made me think about how much time we spent on our relationships way back then. Okay, I don’t want to be construed as the woman who wouldn’t let go of her...
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Total Fitness for Today’s Woman at Elements
It’s every woman’s dream. A place to work out that’s private and offers exercises and nutrition counseling tailored to your individual needs. Now the dream may be within reach. Kathy Elsesser opened Elements Diet & Fitness, a new premier fitness club for women in Okemos, late last year. The club that Elsesser co-founded with her husband Mark...
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Love & War: Paper or Internet
Remember when you were in elementary school and wondered if the person you liked, liked you? Sometimes you would be fortunate (or unfortunate as the case may be) enough to have a friend willing to ask said “love” interest if he was interested in you. If he wasn’t, it seemed that all of his friends heard about you and would point and stare. Or maybe you...
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Mini Home Makeover
Home-sweet-what-mess-did-I-get-myself-into-with-never-ending-projects-home. That’s how the saying should go. Still alive and kicking at a mere 70 years old, our house has lots of character and also lots of projects. I’ve found (à la learning the hard way) that when beginning a “project,” the best way to avoid tears or feeling overwhelmed and intimidated...
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Caring About Women Locally: Shari Murgittroyd
Feminist. Loaded with connotations, it’s a word some women might shy away from. Not Shari Murgittroyd. Feminist is a word she closely identifies with, and it’s a word that she believes, if more people knew its true meaning, they would identify with too. For the true meaning, Murgittroyd says to look no further than a dictionary. “I ask people to do themselves...
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