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Devout Christians Have Better Sex?

Devout Christians Have Better Sex?

I recently read an article entitled, Devout Catholics Have Better Sex, Study Says. And so say churchgoing Christians in the eighteen to fifty-nine age range, according to the National Health and Social Life Survey. The main reason behind these stimulating results...

Support Local Myasthenia Gravis Organization

Support Local Myasthenia Gravis Organization

Join Lori's Voice friends and supporters August 19, 2013, at The Mitten Brewing Co. on Leonard Street NW in Grand Rapids, where fifty percent of proceeds will be donated (excluding beer) to Lori's Voice and the NICU Family Support Program. The Mitten...

3 Practical Tips for Preparing for the Loss of a Spouse

3 Practical Tips for Preparing for the Loss of a Spouse

The sound of silence was the most haunting for Thelma Zirkelbach on her first night home after her husband’s death.  “I’d lost my husband, but I hadn’t lost his voice, I told myself,” said Zirkelbach, who had spent so many nights the previous year at hospitals...

Negotiate Like You Mean It: Nine Tips to Help Women In Business

Negotiate Like You Mean It: Nine Tips to Help Women In Business

Many women aren’t comfortable dealing with negotiations, even when something they really want (and deserve!) is on the line. Vickie Milazzo shares nine tips to help you stop underpricing yourself and start getting paid what you’re worth. If you’re ready to stop...

First Annual Wine & Wig Event Tickets Now On Sale

First Annual Wine & Wig Event Tickets Now On Sale

West Michigan Woman magazine and Susan G. Komen West Michigan have partnered for the first annual West Michigan Woman Wine & Wig gala on Saturday, October 12, 2013, at the Grand Rapids Art Museum. Tickets for the event are now on sale through the event website:...

What Does Jazz Mean to You?

What Does Jazz Mean to You?

Jazz vocalist Edye Evans Hyde is passionate about music in general, but jazz is her go-to, all-American, art in the form of music genre. From traditional to smooth to funky to improv, Edye knows jazz provides freedom of performance and freedom of the soul.  ...

ManpowerGroup: Create Environments that Develop Women Leaders

ManpowerGroup: Create Environments that Develop Women Leaders

ManpowerGroup's 2012 Talent Shortage Survey found that, globally, management, and executive roles are among the most difficult to fill. Despite this, Grant Thornton's 2012 International Business Report revealed that barely one in five senior management...

Landscaping Made Easy

Landscaping Made Easy

If you want to enjoy your outdoor space with minimal work, you’re not alone. The number one landscaping trend this year is rooted in low-maintenance, high-hardiness plants. But maintaining a beautiful, albeit undemanding, property takes initial planning. That’s where...

Growing Up and Diving Head First Into the Unknown!

Pioneering through your last years of college is a time of growth, experience, and self-examination. For me, it has been a time where I indulged wholeheartedly into those late-night conversations about life, the future, and where exactly I fit into this grown-up...

Stories of Hope, Survival Focus of Local Breast Cancer Campaign

Stories of Hope, Survival Focus of Local Breast Cancer Campaign

Susan G. Komen West Michigan launches the Alive West Michigan campaign, focused on lives saved through education, screening, and diagnostics offered locally.  WEST MICHIGAN, July 15, 2013 – Local breast cancer survivor Yvette McClain was told she could not...