Mckenzie Santiago, former bartender turned business owner, founded Brooklyn Grooming with Alfredo Ortiz in 2009 when she moved to Brooklyn. “The people there seemed like they were working towards something unique, which is what I wanted to do,” says Santiago. “I loved seeing men with beards and Brooklyn didn’t have a mens grooming line, so …
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In April 2014, Alexandra Kalita spent six days dog sledding through the Arctic tundra. A twenty-six-year-old New York City native who runs her own interior design business, Alex is an outdoors enthusiast but had no previous dog sledding experience. (I mean, how many of us do!?) She was, however, one of twenty lucky people from …
Read MoreTalking Music with Jillian Speece of The Bergamot
Jillian is lead singer of the wife-husband duo band The Bergamot. She’s also a foodie, spiritualist, and maker of organic body care products that blogs on Shine On, Inc. I caught up with her to talk about everything from affirmations to auto-tune. [divider]The Interview[/divider] Tell me about your earliest experience with music. I was three …
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Emilie Cortes is a mountaineer, wilderness guide, motivational speaker, and Owner/President of Call of the Wild Adventures, Inc., an adventure travel company by women for women. [divider]The Interview[/divider] Tell us about Call of the Wild. Call of the Wild is a women’s only adventure travel company headquartered out of Bend, Oregon. We are unique in …
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Francoise Bosteels’ dolls often depict bleak, even gruesome tales of impoverished and abused women, men, and children. For instance, she’s made a doll of a woman beaten by her husband and of a boy digging through trash to find food. Most dolls she couples with a short story or poem. The dolls and writings are …
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Canyon Calling was created in 1996 so that active women, like you, could enjoy extraordinary adventures.
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Every morning in New Zealand I’d wake up, cocooned in my own little heat burrito, and want to snuggle as far into the puffy synthetic lining as I could.
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Christine Dennison is currently training for a North Pole endurance ski race sponsored by The Mamont Foundation, which promotes arctic awareness, education, and conservation. The event will be held from April 14-24, 2015 and will begin in Svalbard, Norway and move to the ice camp Barneo. There are four teams of five athletes who will …
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I know one woman who cried the whole duration of a six-hour flight. The weird thing is, Tracy and I both, most of the time, like Russia.
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The beauty of enjoying a meal with others seems part of our human nature. So why did it feel as foreign as an ancient ritual?
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Everyone seems to be saving the world. Meanwhile, here I am, a social worker in a mountain town, living paycheck-to-paycheck, wandering through the desert on a Saturday morning and worried about the gas money that it’s going to take to get me back home.
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Everyone I knew who had gone to culinary school told me not to go. Yes, yes; I knew working in kitchens was stressful, physically demanding, and exhausting. I’d done a bit of it, I could deal with those things.
I moved to Paris. My five month intensive cuisine program passed quickly and painlessly enough.
