by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
Have you ever given a thought to what are the important numbers in your life? Which are the numbers that hold meaning, and I am not talking telephone numbers and address numbers and prosaic stuff like that. I mean other numbers that tend to exert more influence in our lives: waist size, dress size, weight or the number that comes up when you stand on the weighing machine.
Do these numbers hold you in thrall? Do they manipulate the way you behave, dictate your priorities in life? If so do you think that they should? Should they be of such consequence, of such magnitude in your life as to eclipse all the other more important numbers? Continue Reading…
by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
I used to hate all the passport photos or driver’s license photos that I ever posed for; I always thought I looked awful in them. Then I realized that I could look great in those photos by the simple expedient of smiling! And sure enough this last picture I posed for, I was fully satisfied with, simply because I was smiling in the picture.
I really think that a smile is something that makes anyone instantly sexier and more attractive. It is like a secret sexy weapon that you can use at will to floor just about anyone. Continue Reading…
by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
If you are a regular reader here, you probably read the rant about Barbie dolls and our views on the subject. It was the comment made on Nancy’s post, the body shop “love your body” ad, “…I wish real Barbies looked like that” that really set me thinking that we all send out a message to our kids by the kind of toys we give them to play with and if a Barbie doll is the toy of choice then what is the message that sends out.
Anyway this is not another rant, this is a tribute to the creators of the Big Beautiful Dolls concept. These are dolls that I really don’t think I mind my four year old playing with. This is a cute, curvy cuddly looking doll and sends my child the message that it’s OK to be REAL woman, and that it is not necessary to aspire to some unattainable supermodel size. Continue Reading…
by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
Yes I know, there is no such word as ‘curvifier’, but isn’t that basically what corsets used to do (or still do)? The minute you say the word corset what immediately comes to mind is the scene from Gone with the Wind where the nanny is tightening the stays to Scarlett’s corset trying to make her already hourglass figure even more hourglass like!
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by Reena Daruwalla, guest writer for Nancy Hayssen.com
I know that Father’s Day is still some days away (June 15 I believe), but for some reason I am missing papa terribly today. Now, more than 7 years after his passing away, I still think of him and miss him everyday; I still find that most men I have met don’t really measure up to him.
He was gentle, loving, very affectionate, very wise and knowledgeable, and had a rare facility to be able to explain things to me when I was a child and then equally as able to relate to me as a rebellious teen and later as an adult. Continue Reading…
