Joomla! site syndication http://www.professionalwomensnet.org 2010-03-09T18:58:40+01:00 http://www.professionalwomensnet.org http://www.professionalwomensnet.org/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2008-01-23T10:45:57+01:00 http://www.professionalwomensnet.org http://www.professionalwomensnet.org/content/view/14/10/ Login and add your company's news to share with the rest of the PWN members and the world! text/html 2006-12-31T00:01:20+01:00 http://www.professionalwomensnet.org http://www.professionalwomensnet.org/content/view/2/ To support women in the accomplishments of their goals through management theory and practice by interaction with fellow professionals; by engaging speakers of the highest caliber; participation in open forums and frank discussions on controversial issues that pertain to women today, and to support accessibility to learning programs and research.QualificationsProfessional women at management levels such as:• Business Owners• Managers and Executive Directors• Independent Contractors• Educators Members please login to the left and click on PWN Events Meetings or click here to REGISTER (component/option,com_attend_events/Itemid,4/) for one text/html 2007-02-22T13:00:29+01:00 http://www.professionalwomensnet.org http://www.professionalwomensnet.org/content/view/4/ PWN Officers Board Members for 2010 Officers President Andie Rose Secretary Danaka Bunch Treasurer Toni GoodrichProgram Chair Liz EnglishPublicity Vicki Viall Membership Chair Laura Lee Williford Invocation Patty Rea Web Site Monica Zimmerman Past President Sandy Rudolph Board of Directors 2010 2011 2012 Susan McKenzie Carla WilliamsDanaka BunchLaura Lee Williford Liz EnglishAngel Smith Patty Rea Amy EwingVicki Viall text/html 2008-06-12T14:04:37+01:00 http://www.professionalwomensnet.org http://www.professionalwomensnet.org/content/view/15/10/ Summer Reading Suggestions –Audrey Moriarty, Given Memorial LibraryMay 2008Before I Die by Jenny DownhamTessa is 16 and won't make it to 17. She is dying of cancer. She makes a list of all the things she wants to do before she dies, including having sex, trying drugs, and falling in love. Her choices are sometime reckless and/or dangerous, but what's the worse that will happen? She is at times wise, sensible, self-pitying, angry, apathetic and gentle; honest reactions to her fate. The book is about being alive and enjoying it when you can. It reminds me in some ways of The Lovely Bones. Keep Kleenex nearby.Black Olives by Martha Todd DudmanBlack Olives takes place in the space of one day. Virginia is in the drugstore browsing when she spies her former lover across the store. The break-up is a year old, but she is still an emotional mess. She scurries out of the store without him seeing her, and then, sees his car and suddenly gets in the back seat. She curls up in his old sweater and other items in the back and he comes to the car and she remains undetected. During the ride, she wavers between fear of discovery and excitement in her illicit ride. She relives the relationship-- what went wrong, and what was great. Does she get caught? What happens?The Fiction Class by Susan BreenArabella Hicks is a frustrated writer. By day, she proofreads corporate reports and works on a novel, by night she teaches a fiction class and visits her aging mother in a nursing home. Because it is a class, Breen gets to have a lot of characters that would never be together. Each week is a different assignment that she discusses with both the students and her mother. The students grow from strangers to friends as Arabella learns about herself, her confidence and her relationship to her mother through all their writing. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn JacksonLaurel Hawthorne wakes in the middle of the night to see the ghost of a young girl at her bedside. The ghost travels to the window and Laurel follows, and sees the body of a young girl floating in her swimming pool. Laurel hadn't seen a ghost in thirteen years and she thought she had left that all behind when she married and moved away. Laurel turns to her rebel sister for help, and the two of them uncover their own family skeletons and discover the cause of the girl’s death.The Girl With No Shadow by Joanne HarrisThis book picks up somewhere after Harris' delightful Chocolat left off. Vianne Rocher, now Yanne Charbonneau, is in Montmartre, working in a nondescript chocolaterie and leading a nondescript life. No bright colors, no red sachets, nothing to draw attention to her or her two daughters. Then Annie speaks to the beautiful and exotic Zozie de L'Alba and their quiet, safe life begins to crumble. Can Yanne survive the secrets Zozie seems to know or will she run again?I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crosley Sloane could be a sibling to Amy and David Sedaris. Her witty, succinct and off-beat observations on life experiences are refreshing and humorous. This is a book of essays and a great “pick up and put down” book. It tells you something about her when she claims to have written the cover story for the “worst-selling issue of Maxim in that magazine’s history.”In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan In the first paragraph, Michael Pollan tells us what we should do: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Why then, should you read the rest of the book? Because it is interesting and informative. If, indeed, food needs defending, then from whom? His answer is: from the food industry and from nutritional science. He asks when did food turn into “nutrients” and how did we stop consuming food and start eating ‘edible food like substances?” In a nation that is obsessed with nutrition, there are more fat people than ever before, and fewer healthier ones. He suggests that we eat what our great grandmothers would recognize as food.Life on the Refrigerator Door by Alice Kuipers This book is a touching look into the life of a mother and daughter who are running out of time and don’t know it. Mom is an obstetrician with the wonderful duty of bringing new life into the world, but it is a job that can’t be corralled and demands a lot of time. Claire is a teen-ager in the midst of an exciting new world of boys, dates, homework, activities and babysitting. They end up reading messages to each other on sticky notes on the refrigerator door, missing dinners with each other, shopping trips, plays and appointments. The entire book is a series of mini-messages on sticky notes and they appear as such in the book. The message: life goes by fast. More Kleenex.The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich Most of this book is based on the after effects of the unsolved murder of a farm family in the off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The Ojibwas, whites and mixed blood families live together, most of them having forgotten or never known the facts of the murders or the parts their ancestors may have played in the drama. The story is told from the viewpoints of several narrators, and paints a vivid portrait of the times and the culture. The Thing About Life is That One Day You’ll Be Dead by David Shields This book is filled with both facts and anecdotal information and reads like an entertaining novel. Dave writes with love and humor about his long-lived father, who is happier and in better shape than Dave ever was. Interesting bits that I learned from this book: in the Paleolithic age half of all babies died before reaching their first birthday; right now, 70% of all people die after age 65, as opposed to 1900 when 70% of people died before age 65; in the US there are now over 37,000 centenarians (the majority are female, white and widowed!); in families of more that one child, the longer-lived sibling is most often considered by all to be the one with a better sense of humor.