by Lesley Graydon | Dating, Love, Relationships, Self-love
Are you wanting to create an amazing relationship with a partner? Do you wonder how you will know if a person is a potentially good match for you? Or maybe you are questioning if the person you are dating is “relationship material”? Or if your...
by Lesley Graydon | Communication, Dating, Love, Relationships, Self-love
eenst Our culture has many terms, distorted views, & beliefs on the monthly ritual of a woman’s womb shedding: that Time of the month. A woman’s moon cycle. Menses. Menstruation. Period. She’s on her rag. Red flag. Some folks are...
by Lesley Graydon | Culture, Fashion, Popculture, Subculture, Visual Art, Visual Culture
Sexy, Older Women … The recent media hoopla surrounding Susan Sarandon’s choice to show her cleavage at the 2016 22nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, where she was nominated for an Outstanding Performance award, has once again raised the discussion on...
by Lesley Graydon | Culture, Popculture, Visual Art, Visual Culture
Make room Vagina Monologues, the British are coming! British artist Jamie McCartney has a goal: to change female body image through art. Over the course of five years, McCartney self-funded and created a very powerful woman loving exhibit: a 9 meter long sculpture...
by Lesley Graydon | Language, Life-Writing, Literature, Memoir, Women's Writing, Writing
In The Situation and the Story, Vivian Gornick raises what one might consider one of the “arts” to be accessed in memoir: point of view. For me, this is a most powerful concept to consider and one I teach and speak about a great deal. It may seem obvious,...
