WOMANHOOD

I am Sanjay Nair, I have done my B.Pharm & M.B.A with 8 & ½ years experience in the pharmaceutical industry with 7 & ½ years in product management. Thereafter from the year 2007, I am involved with project-9 and the "rise-of- womanhood" website.

I am a homemaker with homegrown knowledge and experience in the topics of frugal living, christian womanhood, historical reenactmet, home education, cooking, paranormal investigation, and living abundantly with less.

Zoe Flowers is a playwright, educator and advocate. Like many young women, she found herself in an abusive relationship in her early twenties. Tired of suffering in silence, She ended it after almost three years. However, the experience motivated her to turn anger and confusion into a catalyst for change. She decided to write Dirty Laundry, a series of candid interviews with women like herself who'd experienced domestic and sexual violence. In 2005, she began writing From Ashes to Angel's Dust: A Journey Through Womanhood (FA2AD) a Choreodrama that uses monologues; poetry and vignettes based on Dirty Laundry. FA2AD includes new stories about clergy abuse, same sex violence, body image and self-love. From Ashes to Angel's Dust is the story of your mother, grandmother, auntie, sister, niece, best friend and daughters. On a leap of faith, she left a secure job to produce this show and ensure that the voices of women and children be heard worldwide! So far she's been to Baltimore, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia and Hartford, CT. Next year The show will travel to Atlanta, Seattle and California. Zoe will be writing on Arts& Entertainment and issues related to preventing violence against women and children.

DeAnna L'am (www.deannalam.com) (B.A.) speaker, coach, and consultant, is author of Becoming Peers - Mentoring Girls Into Womanhood. Her pioneering work has been transforming girls' and women's lives around the world for over 20 years. DeAnna specializes in enriching women's lives at ANY age, and trains Moms, Grandmas, Step-Moms, Aunts, and all women with a special girl in their life -- to become empowering role models for their girls. Her mission is inspiring women and girls to love themselves! Visit her at www.deannalam.com

I have always been told that I do things the hard way. I think of it as the fact that I am always up for a challenge, or simply have to learn things for myself. It has been with age and exposure to wisdom that I realized that I can trust in others' experiences. I have also learned that I need to share more of my experiences in order to help others with life's challenges. I have been many things in life, and I have worn many faces of womanhood. I grew up in a semi-rural area in a Roman Catholic home, filled with children and life affirming struggles. I declared my need to be the black sheep during my teenage years by being the hippie-goth-punk-rock jock that started to emerge as part of Generation X. I went to college, and depression followed me, so I sought escape in drugs, sex, and alcohol. At 21 I was pregnant and cleaning up my ways, when my baby girl arrived. From then on, I took college seriously, while I worked, ran a family, and tried to make things work with my baby's daddy, whom I married when our girl was 5 years old. I went through episodes of major depression every few years and would loose myself in addiction as my own 'therapy'. After the events of 9-11, my husband decided to join the Army and do his part. We were both 30 and now the parents of 2 girls. Becoming a military family was rewarding and torturous. We gained pride and strength and patriotism. We lost years of time with the man of our house (he deployed 3 times, for a total of 3.5 years gone in a 6 year period.) We also lost trust in him, with his disturbing, then betraying behavior, after his mind got scrambled from PTSD. As we all heal, and try to work things out, I have finally received the medical help I needed for my major depressive disorder. though it involved institutionalization, I now follow the 12 steps and I am seeking peace. My adventures are something that I want to share with the world in the hopes of helping others.

I am Kimberly Michelle Scott, author of From Now Until Infinity: A Reflection into Womanhood, From Infinfity Until Beyond: A Journey into Life, and a public speaker. I am in the process of writing several books, while posting on various blogs.

I am a 27 year old widow, with an 11 year old daughter who just began her journey into womanhood. I am a preschool teacher. I have also started dating a man with 4 kids, 2 ex wives, both of which are drug addicts. I have plenty to write about!!

Kisha Green is no stranger to the literary world. She is the well-informed and very knowledgeable publisher of DivaBooksInc. (www.divabooksinconline.com) and author of many books under her imprint, including "And Even If I Did," "If It Aint One Thing, It's Another," "Dear Mommy" and "Mental Seduction." In 2007, Green was nominated Self-Published Author of the Year. As the host of her own Blog Talk Radio show, "Writer's Life Chats," Green interviews aspiring as well as seasoned authors, such as Francis Ray.Writer's Life Chats has been nominated for Best BlogTalk Show in 2008 and 2009. She is also a book reviewer whose work has appeared on the websites Urban Book Source (www.theurbanbooksource.com), Shelfari (www.shelfari.com/kishagreenreads) and Amazon.com, among others. Green is one of the contributing literary editors for Mahogany Butterfly (www.mahoganybutterfly.com), a website created to embrace and celebrate womanhood, regardless of shape, size or color. She also participated in a panel discussion at a Rutgers University seminar, where she sat with other authors and poets, speaking with students about the literary industry: publishing and writing books, the importance of investing in an editor, and the hardships up-and-coming authors may face. With fellow New Jersey self-published author/publisher Marie Antoinette, Green recently launched Literary Jewels (www.literaryjewels.webs.com), a helpful resource for aspiring writers in interested self-publishing but need direction. Green has a jones for literature and is a firm believer in "each one, teach one." She assures, "There is room at the top for everyone in the literary world." Green is destined to take literary Hollywood by storm

I am 43, mother of 2 children. Worked for 19 years as an attorney and arbitrator, and have resigned to take care of my kids. I have many things to say about many topics...Motherhood, the lost art of womanhood, among them.

As a child I was always eager to adventure out into the world of the unknown looking for answers. Searching into my womanhood I found my past to be a life experience to be shared. Leaning into a half century, my character has become self justified.

Married to her beloved husband, Jesse, since 2003. Mother of Kathrynne and Kaitlynn. She and her husband own and operate Biblical Womanhood (http://www.BiblicalWomanhood.com) out of their home. Author of six books. Blogs at http://www.MoneySavingMom.com

I am a blessed wife and mother of 3, and we live in the Sunshine State. I am working as a French interpreter from home and currently working on my bachelors in health administration. I love the Lord and enjoy experiencing new things in life. I also enjoy reading in my spare time. One of the things that I am passionate about is to share my experience and resources with people in a way that would be helpful to them.

I am a blessed wife and mother of 3, and we live in the Sunshine State. I am working as a French interpreter from home and currently working on my bachelors in health administration. I love the Lord and enjoy experiencing new things in life. I also enjoy reading in my spare time. One of the things that I am passionate about is to share my experience and resources with people in a way that would be helpful to them.

Young wise intelligent and full of life.

I am a first and foremost a woman, then a wife and mother to two amazing kids. I am a nocturnal amateur blogger who works in the wee hours as my days are filled with demands of my job and my family. Weaving words together is like food for my soul and I am a happy camper when I am putting an article or piece together.

Freelance writer - opinions, events, human interest, local news for Haysville, Kansas. Creative writer - poetry, songs, stories. Bachelor's degree in creative writing from Wichita State University, published in the Haysville Sun-Times, since 1999.

Phylicia Duran is a homeschool graduate finishing her Associates' degree through Liberty University. She has a passion for writing and teaching young women, and hopes to combine her interests in a ministry for teenage girls.

Adam Michael Luebke is writing a novel titled Parade of Bums, and working on a collection of short fiction stories. He is obsessed with opium, guttural sounds, progressive occultism, and Rudolf Steiner. Mr. Luebke has a blog tailored for the short American attention-span at: http://deardirtyamerica.blogspot.com/

A native Texan; I moved every three or four years growing up. No, my dad wasn't in the military. He was a minister. I have lived my life in four stages.1. PK(Preacher's kid; aka, black sheep), 2.Fashionista Retailing Queen by day, Dancing Diva by night.3.Thirty something identity crisis (therapy, redifine spritual) 4.Marriage again; mid-life mama. Try balancing business and baby.5.Who the hell am I now? (I'm on this one now) I'm a wantabe woman's fiction writer, baring my soul to the world for a living or maybe just a hormone deprived, dried-up diva making one last stab at the illusive golden ring.

I am a 53 year old Christian woman with a passion to spread the message of Titus 2 by encouraging younger women in their calling as wives, mothers and homemakers. I write for Christian women's magazines and ezines.

I am a homemaker, who is always trying to find new and better wyas to accomplish the tasks thast are in my everyday life. I enjoy writing and thought that I might try writing about some of the topics in my life recently.

Grew up in NYC, college in Vermont. BS in Communications. Live in Portland, ME now. Currently work for the Red Cross.