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Sleep Myth Busters: The Sleep Lady Sets the Record Straight
By Kim West, LCSW-C, Author of The Sleep Lady®’s Good Night, Sleep Tight: Gentle Proven Solutions to Help Your Child Sleep Well and Wake Up Happy #1 If I skip my child’s nap, he will sleep longer at night. Also, the later I put my child ...
Read and Win: How Meditation Can Transform You and the World
**Be the first person to read and comment on this post and win a free copy of Be The Change. You must have a U.S. address to win.** By Ed and Deb Shapiro You must be the change you want to see in the world, as Mahatma Gandhi so eloquently said...
Book review: Don’t Ever Call Me Ma’am!
I never get it when people, particularly women, worry about their age. I don’t understand why they consider themselves less attractive or less valuable or less anything as they get older. It’s been my experience that people with a few y...
Read it and win: The Prince Harming Syndrome
Now, here’s a book I can get behind. The Prince Harming Syndrome is a how-to manual for women who want to stop dating jerks and start attracting worthwhile men. I became a fan of the author, Karen Salmansohn, after reviewing another of her b...
Book review: Women, Work & the Art of Savoir Faire
Even though the only French thing about me is my first name (Marie-Therese), I’m intrigued by French women: the way they dress, the way they comport themselves, and how they seem to know things I don’t know. I realize that French women wh...
Read and win: Finding your sole mate
Lauren Mackler, courtesy of www.laurenmackler.com *****Read and win! The first person to read and comment on this post, will win a copy of Solemate, Master the Art of Aloneness and Transform Your Life, by Lauren Mackler.***** You are your sole mate....
Read and win a copy of “Gone to the Dogs” by Mary Guterson!!
“Old Boyfriend” By Mary Guterson ****** SingleWomenRule.com is pleased to present this piece by author Mary Guterson. It’s a personal story about the “real-life ex that inspired the character of Brian” in her latest bo...
A modern day fairy tale for girls of all ages
A wonderful little book crossed my desk recently, and I wished it were around during the days I read bedtime stories to my two daughters (I nearly had an aneurysm once reading The Princess and the Pea to my older daughter; I did not repeat the mistak...
Go ahead and pamper yourself
By Sarah Maria Gone are the days when self-pampering was considered overly-indulgent, self-aggrandizing or narcissistic, right? Well, if those days aren’t quite gone for you, hopefully they will be gone by the time you finish reading this post...
Book review: The Divorce Party (Get a free copy!)
There’s a good deal to like about Laura Dave’s The Divorce Party , namely the protagonists, Maggie, and her future mother-in-law, Gwyn, both of whom are involved with men who harbor secrets. In Gwyn’s case, it’s her husband, T...
Book review: “I Used to Know That”
I believe that learning, not plastic surgery, is the fountain of youth. And every day I’m amazed at how much there is to know, and how much I don’t know. About 12 years ago, I started feeling bad that I never learned Latin in school. Don&...
“I Didn’t Work This Hard Just to Get Married”
Friend to SingleWomenRule.com, Dr. Bella DePaulo, wrote this post for her blog Living Single on Psychology Today. I haven’t had a chance to check out the book yet, but definitely will. There are so many groups of singles I’d love to h...
The best novel I’ve read all year
Have you ever read a book and said to yourself, “I could have done better than that?” I have, more than once. But after I finished Curtis Sittenfeld’s American Wife, I came away feeling I probably shouldn’t be allowed to handl...
When you lie about your age, the terrorists win
I’ve been a fan of stand-up comic Carol Leifer fan for years, so I enjoyed her new book, When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win. She writes: “I see now that when you deny your age, you deny yourself, and when you lie about your a...
How to Shop for a Husband
Yesterday, I interviewed Janice Lieberman, Today ’s consumer correspondent and author of the newly released How to Shop for a Husband, for a podcast which will run here next week (I’m thinking Monday). Unlike some of the depressing dating...
Podcast: You can step into greatness with Loren Slocum
Have you ever wondered if you could have “it” all? Do you know what you want to do, but are terrified to do it? What do you do, when a whole person, becomes a half of one? What if that half of person, is you? Loren Slocum, “a Life...
The convent is starting to look pretty good
If you’ve been strapped into a chair and force-fed the idea that you must get married to be a successful human female, then you might want to check out Will Marry for Food, Sex, and Laundry: How to Get Him and How to Keep Him by Simon Oaks. Oak...
Sex Comes First: new book brings “fresh perspective” on relationship woes
Sex comes first. No, that’s not another how-to-get-him-and-keep-him strategy women are inundated with, it’s the title of popular New York-based writer Kimberly D. Neumann and award winning psychologist Joel Block, Ph.D’s new book: S...
Become Your Own Matchmaker: Finding Love with Patti Stanger
Vanessa Torres, president of Single Women Rule Los Angeles and publisher of ThatHappenedtoMe.com, chimes in this week with her review of the new book by the infamous Millionaire Matchmaker. I don’t know how many of you are fans of Bravo’s Milli...
A helpful book for troubled times
For the past few years, we’ve heard a lot about The Secret, also known as The Law of Attraction, but it’s nothing new, really. The late pastor Norman Vincent Peale wrote a wonderful (and surprisingly humorous) book about it many years ago...
Meet Marshawn Evans, Author of S.K.I.R.T.S. in the Boardroom
We’re continuing our podcast series with an interview with Marshawn Evans, J.D., author of S.K.I.R.T.S. in the Boardroom. Besides being a successful entrepreneur and attorney, one notch on Marshawn’s belt is starring in Season 4 of Dona...
SWR talks to Ilana Stanger-Ross. Listen in and win!
Enjoyed talking to author Ilana Stanger-Ross yesterday morning about her acclaimed first novel, Sima’s Undergarments for Women. (Note: The first three people who tune in to the interview and leave a comment on this post will receive a free copy...
Meet author Ilana Stanger-Ross with Single Women Rule
Our next live podcast show will be recorded on Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 11 AM EST. Terry will interview author Ilana Stanger-Ross. You can join the podcast by dialing in to (712) 432-1690 and using Access Code: 1024008# For more podcast...
