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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Monday, November 22, 2010
WOOF: Media Monday - Body Image
WOOF: Women Only Over Fifty addresses body image with humor...and sometimes that's what we need. To laugh at the sags and sways. Other times, it's anything but a laughing matter. Especially when the media seems set on creating and sustaining unrealistic expectations. (A link should not be construded as a WOOF endorsement.)
Beauty and Body Image in the Media:
Media Coverage of Women and Women's Issues:
Portia de Rossi – the most recent woman in the media to speak out about her struggles with body image
Beauty and Body Image in the Media:
Media Coverage of Women and Women's Issues:
Portia de Rossi – the most recent woman in the media to speak out about her struggles with body image
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
WOOF: 50 Women Over 50 - Ellen
The list is endless. Women Only Over Fifty (WOOFers) who lead vibrant, meaningful lives and just seem to get younger every day.
She insisted "The show must go on!" when laid up with a torn back ligament and interviewed guests from a hospital bed on the set.
She followed two former US presidents to the podium at a Tulane University commencement in New Orleans wearing a bathrobe and furry slippers. "They told me everyone would be wearing robes," she said.
She was picked to voice the character Dory, a fish with short-term memory loss, in the animated movie "Finding Nemo" after the film's director said she typically changed the subject five times before finishing a sentence on her show.
She's a TV talk show host, a standup comic, a multiple-time award show host (and Emmy winner), the new American Idol judge, and an advocate for human and animal rights. And funny as hell.
Thank you, Ellen DeGeneres, for making life a whole lot more fun and reminding WOOFers everywhere to stay a puppy at heart!
She insisted "The show must go on!" when laid up with a torn back ligament and interviewed guests from a hospital bed on the set.
She followed two former US presidents to the podium at a Tulane University commencement in New Orleans wearing a bathrobe and furry slippers. "They told me everyone would be wearing robes," she said.
She was picked to voice the character Dory, a fish with short-term memory loss, in the animated movie "Finding Nemo" after the film's director said she typically changed the subject five times before finishing a sentence on her show.
She's a TV talk show host, a standup comic, a multiple-time award show host (and Emmy winner), the new American Idol judge, and an advocate for human and animal rights. And funny as hell.
Thank you, Ellen DeGeneres, for making life a whole lot more fun and reminding WOOFers everywhere to stay a puppy at heart!
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For more Women Only Over Fifty thoughts & stories:
WOOF available through Amazon and Echelon Press!
Accentuate The Pawsitive!
Monday, December 29, 2008
Resolution: Outsource Resolutions!
I realize there's a lot of debate about outsourcing. BUT in the interest of becoming a "more perfect WOOFer" and utilizing my time and energy to the optimum (while bequeathing my bestest WOOFer buds a reason for living and breathing), I hereby, thusly, and all that jazz, outsource my 2009 resolutions:
To Milkbone: All of my cardio and strength training exercise; payment (in full) of any and all of my health club membership dues; my mammogram and colonoscopy exams.
To Mad Dog: Any and all of my financial debt, to be paid in full by January 2; successful increase of my annual income to $500 billion by January 3.
To Alpha Canine: All of my current volunteer responsibilities; founding and funding a new 501c3 (The d.d. dawg Do Good Stuff Foundation) to save the planet, stop hunger, cure cancer and clone Johnny Depp.
To Pe
digree: Any and all of my marketing, emailing and blogging duties; successfully scheduling interview spots for ME ALONE on Ellen & Oprah.
Wow, I feel new and improved already! Wait. Perhaps I should outsource my feelings to...Hey, where'd everybody go?!?!?
Now it's YOUR turn...Let the outsourcing begin!
(Speed read the following like an announcer at the end of a drug ad: Recent research shows that while 52% of participants in a Resolution study were confident of success with their goals, only 12% actually achieved their goals. Men achieved their goal 22% more often when they engaged in goal setting, a system where small measurable goals are used (lose a pound a week, instead of saying "lose weight"), while women succeeded 10% more when they made their goals public and got support from their friends.)
To Milkbone: All of my cardio and strength training exercise; payment (in full) of any and all of my health club membership dues; my mammogram and colonoscopy exams.
To Mad Dog: Any and all of my financial debt, to be paid in full by January 2; successful increase of my annual income to $500 billion by January 3.
To Alpha Canine: All of my current volunteer responsibilities; founding and funding a new 501c3 (The d.d. dawg Do Good Stuff Foundation) to save the planet, stop hunger, cure cancer and clone Johnny Depp.
To Pe
digree: Any and all of my marketing, emailing and blogging duties; successfully scheduling interview spots for ME ALONE on Ellen & Oprah.Wow, I feel new and improved already! Wait. Perhaps I should outsource my feelings to...Hey, where'd everybody go?!?!?
Now it's YOUR turn...Let the outsourcing begin!
(Speed read the following like an announcer at the end of a drug ad: Recent research shows that while 52% of participants in a Resolution study were confident of success with their goals, only 12% actually achieved their goals. Men achieved their goal 22% more often when they engaged in goal setting, a system where small measurable goals are used (lose a pound a week, instead of saying "lose weight"), while women succeeded 10% more when they made their goals public and got support from their friends.)
-- d.d. dawg (Diana)
Monday, July 28, 2008
Cat On A Hot Tin WOOF
A WOOFer spies a feral cat prowling her farm and emails her observations. The feline ventures close for food and drink. Try to pet her? Gone, baby, gone.
My friend goes on to say the cat’s behavior reminds her of a middle-age acquaintance who is always on the move. A veritable undomesticated great dame.
So maybe WOOFers and cats have more in common than previously thought.
And maybe, when a woman hits 50, any wild streak she embraced in her younger years doesn’t immediately shrivel to the size of Cleopatra’s mummified ovaries. Her graying hair (somewhere beneath the L’Oreal) doesn’t automatically signal a dullness of wit and wiliness.
Correct me if I’m wrong (which I’m not, so don’t bother), WOOFers still feel the fire “down below” and a quickening pulse at the mere mention of the Denzel Washingtons and/or Ellen DeGenereses of the world.
Sure, a Barkalounger and Social Security take precedence over bikini waxes and firm abs on the over-50 woman’s priority list.
But, hey, all that means is this...a WOOFer not only weighs more than in her 30s, she also weighs a bit more carefully her choices.
Example: Now, with the urge to be a “bad dog,” many of us sip a glass of red wine before 5 and dine on extra-dark chocolate.
A WOOFer toast: To healthy, wealthy and … wild!
—d.d.dawg
My friend goes on to say the cat’s behavior reminds her of a middle-age acquaintance who is always on the move. A veritable undomesticated great dame.
So maybe WOOFers and cats have more in common than previously thought.
And maybe, when a woman hits 50, any wild streak she embraced in her younger years doesn’t immediately shrivel to the size of Cleopatra’s mummified ovaries. Her graying hair (somewhere beneath the L’Oreal) doesn’t automatically signal a dullness of wit and wiliness.
Correct me if I’m wrong (which I’m not, so don’t bother), WOOFers still feel the fire “down below” and a quickening pulse at the mere mention of the Denzel Washingtons and/or Ellen DeGenereses of the world.
Sure, a Barkalounger and Social Security take precedence over bikini waxes and firm abs on the over-50 woman’s priority list.
But, hey, all that means is this...a WOOFer not only weighs more than in her 30s, she also weighs a bit more carefully her choices.
Example: Now, with the urge to be a “bad dog,” many of us sip a glass of red wine before 5 and dine on extra-dark chocolate.
A WOOFer toast: To healthy, wealthy and … wild!
—d.d.dawg
Friday, April 18, 2008
WOOFers To The Rescue!
Women Only Over Fifty with a "new leash on life." Have we got a book and a club for you!
From Oprah to Ellen to our water aerobics instructor, it’s all about the joys of aging! How 50 is the new 30! Whatever!
Some of us are hounded by middle-age. We’re dog-tired, wrinkled as a Sharpei and barking like a bitch.
Enter: WOOF: For the over-fifty woman itching to howl at the aging process. From issues of graying hair, expanding waistlines and wrinkling tattoos, to embracing triumph over personal tragedy, WOOF raises four paws to our past accomplishments, present realizations and future dreams.
Are you up to it...dogtrotting alongside this sisterhood taking the second half of life by the tail? We know you are. After all, the past 50 years you’ve gained freedom! You’ve gained power! You’ve gained wisdom!
(Don't tell us you think weight is the only thing you've gained. Oh, you so need
WOOF...)
WOOF! Women Only Over Fifty - Look for it this Summer in your favorite bookstore or online.
“A howl a day keeps the scowl away!”
d.d.dawg, Milkbone & Mad Dog
And, if you're in the West Georgia area, stop by and say, "Hey!" d.d. dawg and Milkbone will be at the Carrollton Mayfest, Saturday, May 3rd from 10:00AM-4:30PM. We'll be "somewhere in the vicinity" of Adamson Square!
From Oprah to Ellen to our water aerobics instructor, it’s all about the joys of aging! How 50 is the new 30! Whatever!
Some of us are hounded by middle-age. We’re dog-tired, wrinkled as a Sharpei and barking like a bitch.
Enter: WOOF: For the over-fifty woman itching to howl at the aging process. From issues of graying hair, expanding waistlines and wrinkling tattoos, to embracing triumph over personal tragedy, WOOF raises four paws to our past accomplishments, present realizations and future dreams.
Are you up to it...dogtrotting alongside this sisterhood taking the second half of life by the tail? We know you are. After all, the past 50 years you’ve gained freedom! You’ve gained power! You’ve gained wisdom!
(Don't tell us you think weight is the only thing you've gained. Oh, you so need
WOOF...)
WOOF! Women Only Over Fifty - Look for it this Summer in your favorite bookstore or online.
“A howl a day keeps the scowl away!”
d.d.dawg, Milkbone & Mad Dog
And, if you're in the West Georgia area, stop by and say, "Hey!" d.d. dawg and Milkbone will be at the Carrollton Mayfest, Saturday, May 3rd from 10:00AM-4:30PM. We'll be "somewhere in the vicinity" of Adamson Square!
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