The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: Gratuitous Violence Against Women or Shining a Light on the Problem We Want to Ignore?

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is ostensibly a murder mystery.  Despite its 600+ page length and its detours into Swedish political intrigue, it’s much more than that and readers from teens to grandmas are taking it to the pool…

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Mothers of Intention — While I’m at Mom 2.0 Summit

As I’m getting getting ready for my Mom 2.0 panel today, I wanted to leave you with some good reading for the weekend.  What better way than to recommend a few Mothers of Intention?! One of my favorite…

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Just Being Alive Will Soon be a Pre-existing Condition

Domestic violence isn’t a subject I talk about much, but it’s something I feel very strongly about because I have a very personal connection to the topic. I was a victim of domestic abuse. Many, many years ago I…

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