The Diva's Corner Women's Interest Topics

10 Ways to Alleviate Stress

Arguments about details can put a strain on your travel adventure or leisurely vacation. Whether you?re traveling with a group, or traveling as a couple, answering these simple questions before you take off can help alleviate common personality problems vacationers face.

Breast Cancer Survivor

I?d like to take a break for a moment from my usual article writing, to share a poem I wrote for my mother. Ten years ago my mother fought, and won, a battle with breast cancer. And ten years later, I continue to admire her calm strength that made her the survivor she is today.

Planning a Second Wedding the Stress Free Way

A wedding can be an expensive and time consuming event. Brides, grooms, and parents save thousands of dollars and plan for months for the big day, which unfortunately comes and goes in about five to seven hours. If this is your first marriage, you want it all: the long white wedding gown, the large guest list, the big band or boogie down DJ, and the flower girl spreading petals upon the aisle which you walk. But if this is your second wedding, chances are you don?t want to endure the months of planning and empty pockets you experienced the first time.

Post Partum Depression - Free Yourself

Every woman experiences the doldrums or lapses into a funk at some point. After all, whether you are single or not, have kids or no kids ? we live in a time-starved, ?ber multi-tasker, perfectionist society. You wake up before the cows come, eat your South Beach Diet High Protein Bar, feed/dress/drop off /take kids somewhere, fight traffic and enslave yourself 8 hours plus ?to the man?, pick up/drop off kids, take a night school course, work out and wake up after 6 hours to do it all over again. Is it feeling like the movie ?Groundhog Day? or is it just me? And did I leave anything out? I am sure I did.

Why Do We Love?

The second definition given for ?love? in Webster?s dictionary is, ?a passionate affection of one person for another.? Where does this passionate affection begin? Why do we choose to love those we love? Why is it that two strangers can speak for five minutes and feel as though they have known each other for five years? And if you take each person from that pair and pair them with another, they will say goodbye as quickly as they said hello. How do we decide with whom to share our intimate thoughts? And how do we decide to marry one love, and leave another?