The VS Journal

As we put away our gardening tools for the Winter to focus inward, we are faced with cobwebs in the closet that always seem to accumulate around the holidays: those dark corners where the urge and tendency to please everyone around us quietly lingers.  Though strides have been made, sentiments still remain: we are largely […]

‘Tis the season of food, ladies. Warm, scrumptious, savory, steaming, freshly prepared indulgence. I mean, nourishment.  The inevitable pressure of hitting the gym with a solid routine beginning on the first day of January hasn’t quite reared its ugly head yet, so I invite you to get ahead of it this year: now is not […]

When you hear the word hero, what do you picture? Is it a muscular vision of a man from Greek mythology, his brute strength and hardened judgment ruling over armies and conquering kingdoms with righteous fury? Or do you happen to picture Hero, who bore that very name and gave her life to spend eternity with her love? How about the unsung heroines of history whose stories face erasure from discrimination?