by Emily | Jul 27, 2023 | Wellness
Seventeenth-century British scholar Thomas Fuller once said, “Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.” He is also known for the famous quote: “We never know the worth of water till the well is...
by Emily | Mar 27, 2023 | Wellness
While Dry January and Sober October have gone fairly mainstream, mocktails are becoming all the rage and nonalcoholic bars are cropping up, alcohol abuse remains a mostly forbidden subject of conversation. Likewise, there’s plenty of talk on the news about the...
by Emily | Jan 27, 2023 | Travel
Ahh … the holidays are over and it’s time to wrap up in a fuzzy blanket and go into hibernation mode until spring. Or, is it? At West Michigan Woman, we believe in the power of a romantic getaway to shoo away the winter grays. Whether it’s to...
by Emily | Nov 21, 2022 | Relationships
VD, crabs, the clap … depending on the era you grew up, any of these terms may have been tossed around when talking about sexually transmitted infections or diseases. And with them, (un)healthy amounts of shame and embarrassment. Today, these old expressions are...
by Emily | Sep 30, 2022 | Wellness
I’ll be frank: this article was hard to write. After covering my own experience with Stage IV metastatic breast cancer over a multi-part blog series, and writing supplemental pieces for this publication and others, you’d think it’d be a piece of...
