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Changing the Universe through Women’s Stories RACHEL ORMAN RACHEL Love your body Embrace Sworn to keep ‘I’m, Like, What if Helen never your curves a secret SO Fat!’ made it to Troy? FEBRUARY 2011 Volume 27, Issue 2 www.womenspress.com 2 Minnesota Women’s Press, February 2011 FOR WOMEN ON THE GO. WANT CONVENIENCE? Seven metro locations and Express Care clinics are open seven days a week. HEALTH COVERAGE? We accept all types of insurance plans. TOO BUSY FOR MULTIPLE APPOINTMENTS? Check out our one-visit Pills Now, Pay LaterTM program. PREFER A WOMAN HEALTH PROVIDER? We’re here for you with personalized, confi dential care. WANT BIRTH CONTROL CHOICES? We offer all types and brand names, plus emergency contraception. HOW ABOUT GREAT SERVICE? Make an appointment, request a refi ll, pay your bill or ask a nurse online. Call 1.800.230.PLAN or visit ppmns.org Express Care Clinics: Eden Prairie • Woodbury Full-Service Clinics: Apple Valley • Brooklyn Park • Burnsville • Minneapolis-Uptown • St. Paul-Rice Street WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS Minnesota Women’s Press, February 2011 3 Changing the Universe through Women’s Stories 8 Love your body issue CONTACTUS 651-646-3968 email: [email protected] 20 www.womenspress.com Send a letter to the editor [email protected] Subscribe [email protected] Advertise [email protected] 22 Suggest a story idea [email protected] Enter your online calendar listing at www.womenspress.com, click on Calendar, then “add an event” Join book activities [email protected] 10 MWPSTAFF READERS’WRITE Publishers/Editors YOUSAID .................................................5 Kathy Magnuson, Norma Smith Olson Contributors Elizabeth Ellis, Anne Hamre, FEATURES Letters from our readers Kathy Kastan, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, THINKABOUTIT ....................................6 ONYOURMIND .......................................9 Amber Procaccini, Pat Samples, Julia Cover girl Pelosi and more I am FABULOUS Sewell, Katie Spencer, Jennifer Thaney, Jillian Van Hefty, Ka Vang LOVEYOURBODYFEATURE ............... 8 BOOKSHELF .........................................12 Cover Artist Rachel Orman Embrace your curves Transcendance Design Norma Smith Olson PROFILE ................................................10 LEADERVOICE .....................................14 Advertising Sales Michele Holzwarth, “I’m, Like, SO Fat!” Nancy Jambor, Kathy Magnuson 82-year-old sparkler Accounting Kathy Malchow BOOKTALK ........................................... 13 YOURSTORY......................................... 16 Operations Faye Kommedahl, Kari Larson LesFic book group Pay attention to your heart Founding Publishers Mollie Hoben, YOURSTORY........................................ 24 Glenda Martin WORDSANDPICTURES .....................18 Is it still a miscarriage? Our mission is to tell women’s stories in What if Helen never made it to Troy? ways that create community and encourage YOURSTORIES ....................................27 change. COLUMNISTS Canine connections The Minnesota Women’s Press is dis- WELCOMEWORDS ................................4 LEADERVOICE ....................................28 tributed free at 500 locations. To fi nd one near you, visit www.womenspress.com Lookin’ good I was a chubby kid and click “get a copy” or call 651-646-3968. SHESAID .............................................. 29 YOURSTORY........................................ 30 Subscriptions are available by First Class Sworn to keep her dirty secret Are you married? mail: $52 for one-year Fan Community membership (includes email updates, invi- ACTNOW .............................................. 38 YOURTHOUGHTS .......................... 31-33 tation to community gathering, free copy of Does my friend have an eating disorder? Love Your Body words from our readers BookWomen magazine); $28 for a basic one- year subscription, $53 for two years. GOSEEDO ADVERTISINGSECTIONS Printed on recycled paper at ECM, a certifi ed green printer. Please recycle. COVERARTIST ....................................20 HEALTHGUIDE ...........15 ©2011 by Minnesota Women’s Press Inc. Rachel Orman’s body artwork WOMEN&PETS All rights reserved. ISSN #1085-2603. GUIDE ..........................25 MINNESOTA WOMEN’S PRESS INC., EVENTSCALENDAR .......................... 22 970 RAYMOND AVE., STE. 201, ST. PAUL, MN 55114 “Agnes Under the Big Top” and more CLASSIFIEDADS......................... 34 4 Minnesota Women’s Press, February 2011 WELCOMEWORDS NORMASMITHOLSON Lookin’ good KATHYMAGNUSON “Your butt is really waaay too big, You seriously need to lose some weight, girl.” Can you imagine saying that to your best friend? “You could never go out in public wearing that swimming suit. What were you thinking?” Would you say that to your mother? ”Grandmother, you USED to be good looking.” Would you share that insight with her? Of course, you wouldn’t. Then why do we say those same demeaning, insulting, put-down comments to ourselves? Why do we tell ourselves things that would be too impolite to say to a stranger, much less someone we love? “Your hair is a disaster. You have thunder thighs. Your ankles are as fat as a tele- phone pole.” Coming Up: We asked you, our readers, to tell us if you loved your bodies. If not, In March our theme is Global Women. why not and what it would take to say “I love you” when you look at Is it a woman’s world? Why or why not? yourself naked in front of a mirror. We received more responses to this How has traveling or living outside of question than to any other we’ve posed. Some are in these the U.S. impacted your thinking about pages and more are posted online. being a woman in the world? “Enjoy life! In this “Love your Body” issue of the Minnesota Send a paragraph or two to Women’s Press we share stories of women embracing their [email protected] That’s what curves, an 82-year-old solo adventure traveler, a plus-size Deadline: February 10 model and a heart-attack survivor. Look for advice on March Advertising Guides: we’re here for.” how to talk about eating disorders with people you love • Camp & Activity Guide and thoughts about just not caring what other people • Elder Guide think. Advertising deadline: February 10 We are doing noon-time yoga in the Women’s Press [email protected] office. We gather to intentionally breathe and stretch, getting in touch In April it’s all VOICE. Do you have an with some less-used muscles in our bodies. Some of us love it. Some experience about losing, finding or tolerate it (barely). We can be supportive of each other and laugh as we using your voice? Tell us about it. work at it. As we do the yoga routines we throw in some self-talk, too. Send a paragraph or two to Tracy, our instructor, guides us through the routines and parses out bits [email protected] of wisdom. She calls them “lead thoughts,” words that lead us in posi- tive directions. “Enjoy life! That’s what we’re here for.” “I am beautiful, Deadline: March 10 blissful and bountiful.” “I stand up for myself with grace.” April advertising guides: What if the next time we looked in the mirror we said, “You’re lookin’ • Grrrls Go Green Guide good, girl!” • Home Guide and • Spirituality Guide Advertising deadline: March 10 Co-Publishers [email protected] WHAT DO WOMEN WANT? Tell us by February 14! As one girlfriend to another, tell us What Women Want! Fill out our annual online readers’ survey and tell us what you think. Tuesday, February 22 • 7 p.m. Who knows? You might even win a girlfriends’ getaway for you and five friends to beautiful Kavanaugh’s Resort in Brainerd. Go to www.womenspress.com and click on the What Women Want button. We can’t wait to hear from you! Minnesota Women’s Press, February 2011 5 YOUSAID What do women want? really need it frees up oceans of energy to pay attention to More men in our world like Chuck Derry, Frank Jewell and make a difference with what you already have. When and Ed Heisler, getting their words out to the men of the you make a difference with what you have, it expands. world, starting with Minnesota, and going from there. It is Another way of saying that is: What you appreciate appreci- way past time that men step up. [DoOver Feature, MWP, ates.” January 2011] This is a marvelous way of keeping in mind the fact that Cheri Jensen, St. Paul what we need and what we want are quite different. Getting what we want does not always provide the keys to content- Thank you for highlighting men’s organizations that are ment. working to end gender violence (Men as Peacemakers and Kathy Hagen, Wayzata the Minnesota Men’s Action Network). Likewise, at the Candidate confidential University of Minnesota, a student group, Men Against Gender Violence, encourages young men to take responsibil- Thank you to Shannon Drury and the Minnesota Women’s ity to end sexism and gender violence. This group is spon- Press, MN NOW and many others for speaking out. [SheSaid sored by the U’s Aurora Center, which offers sexual violence column, MWP, August 2010] education and prevention programs, www.umn.edu/aurora. As we close the chapter on 2010, I find myself at a cross- Lisa Wersal, Vadnais Heights, Minn. roads once again, much like I did five years ago when I left my life of paid advocate work to renew my education and Hockey hooray pursue a more public servant atmosphere. Thanks for featuring Why should I represent a district whose news, schools, GOTANOPINION? Angela James and Cammi and government do not believe in “liberty and justice for all” Like something in MWP? Granato, recent inductees unless you are white, Christian, conservative and have lived Or disagree? We want into the Hockey Hall of Fame. on the same land since your ancestors? to hear from you. Write [ThinkAboutIt, MWP, January I will tell you why. Because I am a citizen of this district [in to editor@womenspress. 2011] Now let’s REALLY Nowthen, Minn.], because state statutes qualify me to do so, com. Include your name, support them by attending because I refuse to back down to the “privileged” minority, address and phone number • Camp & Activity Guide women’s hockey games.