Download or read book Sigrid Olsen My Life Redesigned written by Sigrid Olsen and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people recognize Sigrid Olsen from the fashion label she launched years ago. Her career, which has spanned over three decades, is still a huge part of who she is and how she defines herself. Yet now, it's integrated into a lifestyle that embraces the profound life lessons that have propelled her to where she is today. The catastrophes that took her out of her comfort zone gave her the impetus to redesign her life, and she's sharing her experiences for the first time in this one-of-a-kind memoir.After multiple, major upheavals that left her gasping for air, Sigrid did what any burned-out, former-hippie, fashion executive would do...she packed a bikini and some art supplies and went to the beach. On the eastern shore of Tulum, Mexico, she reconnected with a long dormant yoga practice and lost herself in meditation until the layers of stress peeled away and she could breathe again.As Sigrid says about life: "That's why they call it a practice!"And as Jane Pauley says in the Foreword: "Sigrid [wasn't] 'forced into retirement', she was 'forced into 'reinvention'."PRAISE FOR SIGRID OLSEN:"Sigrid Olsen is that rare person who lives a life of creativity and entrepreneurship in seeming perfect harmony. Her memoir about her own path of art, reinvention and overcoming adversity is a gift to us all."Dana BuchmanFashion DesignerAuthor: A Special Education"At first, infatuated with her clothes, then smitten with her retreats... and finally... impressed with a true appreciation and respect for the warm, talented and giving woman herself... I am happy to know Sigrid as a friend and fellow creative. Sigrid's journey of re-invention is one that speaks to her optimism, perseverance and strength. Her story as a designer and renaissance woman is bound to inspire countless others on their paths to wellbeing and fulfillment."Kathy DavisCreative Visionary OfficerKathy Davis Studios "Sigrid Olsen is my hero. She has dealt with physical and professional challenges with courage and resilience by healing in deeply personal ways that we can all learn from and be inspired by."Kim Johnson GrossAuthor: What to Wear for the rest of Your LifeCo-Author: Chic Simple Book SeriesABOUT SIGRID OLSEN:Sigrid is an artist, fashion designer and entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in the apparel industry. Her company grew from a small, home-based business in 1984 to an internationally acclaimed fashion brand with a presence in most major department stores, specialty stores and over fifty SIGRID OLSEN boutiques across the U.S. and Canada. Her company was acquired in 1999 by apparel giant Liz Claiborne Inc. where the business enjoyed several years of phenomenal growth until it was discontinued in 2008.Since that time, Sigrid has emerged as a lifestyle-driven thought leader, with a focus on creative wellbeing. In 2009, she established her unique art & yoga infused Inspiration Retreats, and she has personally hosted dozens of small groups of women in locales around the world, including Tulum, Mexico, Tuscany, Provence, California and Florida.Sigrid's story has been featured in many major publications including the New York Times, Women's Wear Daily, Wall Street Journal, O The Oprah Magazine, More Magazine, Boston Globe, Sarasota Magazine, and Coastal Living Magazine, as well as on radio and television.As a designer with an enduring customer base, Sigrid has inspired her audience through a relaxed, upbeat approach to fashion, an inherent love of textile design, and a remarkably close connection to her consumer. Today, Sigrid's company has evolved into SIGRID OLSEN: New Designs for Living. This umbrella encompasses all aspects of design, as well as a personal lifestyle focus on health and happiness that resonates with women everywhere.Sigrid resides and works out of her home studio on Siesta Key in Sarasota, Florida.
Download or read book The Last of Her Kind written by Sigrid Nunez and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The paths of two women from different walks of life intersect amid counterculture of the 1960s in this haunting and provocative novel from the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend Named a Best Book of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle and the Christian Science Monitor Sigrid Nunez's The Last of Her Kind introduces two women who meet as freshmen on the Columbia campus in 1968. Georgette George does not know what to make of her brilliant, idealistic roommate, Ann Drayton, and her obsessive disdain for the ruling class into which she was born. She is mortified by Ann's romanticization of the underprivileged class, which Georgette herself is hoping college will enable her to escape. After the violent fight that ends their friendship, Georgette wants only to forget Ann and to turn her attention to the troubled runaway kid sister who has reappeared after years on the road. Then, in 1976, Ann is convicted of murder. At first, Ann's fate appears to be the inevitable outcome of her belief in the moral imperative to "make justice" in a world where "there are no innocent white people." But, searching for answers to the riddle of this friend of her youth, Georgette finds more complicated and mysterious forces at work. The novel's narrator Georgette illuminates the terrifying life of this difficult, doomed woman, and in the process discovers how much their early encounter has determined her own path, and why, decades later, as she tells us, "I have never stopped thinking about her."
Download or read book The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women written by Gail McMeekin and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2000-02-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing how women can break free of societal and psychological barriers, the author uses the examples of Shakti Gawain, Sarah Ban Breathnach, Cathleen Rountree, Chris Madden and other "creatives" to show how to overcome blocks to creativity. Original. 25,000 first printing.
Download or read book City of Women written by David R. Gillham and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiding her clandestine activities behind the persona of a model Nazi soldier's wife at the height of World War II, Sigrid Schroeder dreams of her former Jewish lover and risks everything to hide a mother and two young children who she believes might be her lover's family.
Download or read book Missions written by Howard Benjamin Grose and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Friend National Book Award Winner written by Sigrid Nunez and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING NAOMI WATTS “A beautiful book . . . a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love.” —Wall Street Journal “A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory . . . Nunez has a wry, withering wit.” —NPR “Dry, allusive and charming . . . the comedy here writes itself.” —The New York Times The New York Times bestselling story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog. When a woman unexpectedly loses her lifelong best friend and mentor, she finds herself burdened with the unwanted dog he has left behind. Her own battle against grief is intensified by the mute suffering of the dog, a huge Great Dane traumatized by the inexplicable disappearance of its master, and by the threat of eviction: dogs are prohibited in her apartment building. While others worry that grief has made her a victim of magical thinking, the woman refuses to be separated from the dog except for brief periods of time. Isolated from the rest of the world, increasingly obsessed with the dog's care, determined to read its mind and fathom its heart, she comes dangerously close to unraveling. But while troubles abound, rich and surprising rewards lie in store for both of them. Elegiac and searching, The Friend is both a meditation on loss and a celebration of human-canine devotion.
Download or read book Powder Pioneers written by Chic Scott and published by Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chic Scott covers all aspects of the sport, ranging from the ski jumpers at Rossland in the 1890s to the birth of ski lodges and ski resorts to the heliskiers, loppet racers and snowboarders of today.
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Download or read book In Case of Emergency written by Mahsa Mohebali and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this prize-winning Iranian novel, a spoiled and foul-mouthed young woman looks to get high while her family and city fall to pieces. What do you do when the world is falling apart and you’re in withdrawal? Disillusioned, wealthy, and addicted to opium, Shadi wakes up one day to apocalyptic earthquakes and a dangerously low stash. Outside, Tehran is crumbling: yuppies flee in bumper-to-bumper traffic as skaters and pretty boys rise up to claim the city as theirs. Cross-dressed to evade hijab laws, Shadi flits between her dysfunctional family and depressed friends—all in search of her next fix. Mahsa Mohebali's groundbreaking novel about Iranian counterculture is a satirical portrait of the disaster that is contemporary life. Weaving together gritty vernacular and cinematic prose, In Case of Emergency takes a darkly humorous, scathing look at the authoritarian state, global capitalism, and the gender binary.
Download or read book Friends and Enemies written by Barbara Amiel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shockingly honest, richly detailed, and pulling no punches, Friends and Enemies traverses the highs and lows of Barbara Amiel's storied life in journalism and high society. From her early childhood in London during the Blitz to emigrating to North America and her rise to the top rungs of journalism; to her four husbands and other assorted beaus both famous and not; and right up to her marriage to Conrad Black and their prolific legal battles against the powerful and vengeful American justice system, Barbara Amiel's life has been as dramatic as it is glamorous. She has been called every conceivable name in the book by the media (and authors of unauthorized biographies about her), pilloried for her extravagant lifestyle and sometimes regrettable quotes to the press ("My extravagance knows no bounds," for instance, to Vogue), not to mention her outspoken conservative political views as stated in her weekly newspaper columns around the world. It's no surprise she remains to this day a subject of utter fascination after over four decades in the public eye. But until now, very few people actually know her real story—the break-up of her family when she was a child, her bouts of debilitating depression and other chronic health issues, her thoughts on feminism and #MeToo, her travels with the international jet set and A-list celebrities, and, of course, her unvarnished views on the trial and conviction (since overturned) of Conrad Black and the iron-clad bond they have shared since they were married in 1992. Whether you are an admirer or critic of Amiel’s, you will be completely engrossed in her operatic life, one that seems ripped from the pages of a scandalous novel. She also distinguishes herself as a woman well ahead of her time—the first female editor of a national newspaper in Canada, she challenged the sexual mores of society while also angering the feminist establishment. She has certainly had many friends and enemies over the years—Henry and Nancy Kissinger, Elton John, Tom Stoppard, David Frost, Anna Wintour, Oscar de la Renta, Margaret Thatcher, Princess Diana, Marie Jose Kravis, to name but a few—and she brings these personalties into the spotlight in this larger-than-life memoir that is sure to cause a sensation with readers everywhere.
Download or read book Weetzie Bat written by Francesca Lia Block and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Transcendent.” —New York Times Book Review “Magnificent.” —Village Voice “Sparkling.” —Publishers Weekly Francesca Lia Block’s dazzling debut novel, Weetzie Bat, is not only a genre-shattering, critically acclaimed gem, it's also widely recognized as a classic of young adult literature, having captivated readers for generations. This coming-of-age novel follows the eponymous Weetzie Bat and her best friend Dirk as they navigate life and love in a timeless, dreamlike version of Los Angeles. When Weetzie is granted three wishes by a genie, she discovers that there are unexpected ramifications…. Winner of the prestigious Phoenix Award, Weetzie Bat is a beautiful, poetic work of magical realism that is perfect for fans of Laura Ruby, Neil Gaiman, and Kelly Link.
Download or read book Astrid Lindgren written by Jens Andersen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English†‘language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adventures of Pippi Longstocking have influenced generations of young readers all over the world. Lindgren’s sometimes turbulent life as an unwed teenage mother, outspoken advocate for the rights of women and children, and celebrated editor and author is chronicled in fascinating detail by Jens Andersen, one of Denmark’s most popular biographers. Based on extensive research and access to primary sources and letters, this highly readable account describes Lindgren’s battles with depression and her personal struggles through war, poverty, motherhood, and fame. Andersen examines the writer’s oeuvre as well to uncover the secrets to the books’ universal appeal and why they have resonated so strongly with young readers for more than seventy years.
