Have you noticed that striving to be perfect is a prevelant theme on social media. Everyone is trying achieve their version of perfection. They post selfies (with filters), take pictures of food when they go out to dinner (after staging the scene) and even the dog (or cat) has to […]
New Memoir Unpacks the Concept of Joy, its Connections to Grief and Pain—and Introduces the “Joy Quotient” For Assessing, Enhancing Daily Joy Levels Make Room for Joy! By Speaker, Adversity and Life Strategist Vanessa Joy Walker Have you ever experienced a crisis or series of crises so devastating that you […]
Local Chicagoans Lead Recovery Effort for South Side Small Businesses Affected by Looting, Riots Arsiak Vartenian, founder of Smart is the New Sexy (SITNS) announced this week that she has partnered with local entrepreneur Candice Payne to lead a recovery initiative for small businesses in Chicago’s south side neighborhoods affected […]
Popular art museum tour provider launches Zoom tours and new YouTube series Shady Ladies Tours, popular purveyor of art museum walking tours, is now offering its tours online via video conferencing platform Zoom. The video tours, guided by Professor Andrew Lear, make it possible for art-lovers to learn about some of […]
The National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) is pleased to launch Women Writing History: A Coronavirus Journaling Project, an initiative designed to ensure that women and girls’ unique voices and experiences are not left out of the telling of the COVID-19 story. Through this project, women and girls of all ages can […]
Graduation season is going to be a little…”different” this year. Many high school and college seniors will be getting their diplomas in the mail. Commencement ceremonies are on hold. And very few will be traveling to attend post-grad parties. While graduating during a pandemic is no one’s first choice, entertaining […]
