So many of us worry about breast cancer, and with good reason: it affects so many women. Most of us are aware of the importance of early screening and detection, and as a result, the advances in survival rates have been remarkable. However, in spite of the wonderful campaigns around cancer awareness, our awareness of heart disease is limited. Many women think heart disease is primarily a man’s disease, and very few of us are aware that cardiovascular disease kills more women than all cancers combined.

I’ve attended my share of weddings, and each and every one as a single girl.  Ever wonder what we single girls are thinking at these "Events Built for Two?" It depends when you ask. 

Like generations of hard-working Southern women before her, my mom’s cooking echoed the limited but comforting traditions of her own mother’s kitchen — fried okra, green beans, and October beans canned from the garden, and in July and August, succulent sliced tomatoes right off the vine. As my mother’s generation came of age, modern life thoughtfully added cream of mushroom soup and fried onion crisps from a can to those good ladies’ repertoires, and thus was born the casserole.