and to all of you reading this who are not my ex boyfriend, I wanted to clear the air and get something straight with you. It occurred to me recently that I’ve done some ex bashing here. I̵...
I deactivated my Facebook account. I know. Social media suicide. There was a time when I could not imagine what I would do if I lost everything on Facebook. All of my friendly banter back and forth b...
Hi all! As I am not on Facebook anymore, I just wanted to let you know I survived Hurricane (what became Tropical Storm) Irene safe and well. I am pretty lucky. I live in the middle of Manhattan, on ...
I’ve tried writing book reviews, product reviews and music reviews on MVIS in the past, and it’s never been super successful. It’s probably because you come to this blog because I w...
I saw a little girl and an old woman get in a fight on the subway yesterday. Not a fist fight, thankfully, but a knock-down, drag-out verbal altercation. I was on my way home from work at the Union S...
When my high school sweetheart-turned-hoped-for-fi ance broke my heart a few years ago, I resolved that I had been given a second chance at a big life. The life he had offered promised to teach me con...
I have everything I’ve ever wanted right now — the job, the great apartment with roommates that rival the friendships of How I Met Your Mother characters (we even live above a pizzeria th...
I have five brothers. Four of them are older than me.They always got the remote controller first, got to hog the tv for endless hours of video games and usually dib’sed shotgun first. My mom is...
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I promise to listen to myself, speak up for myself, advocate for myself, & believe in me. I promise to say I’m beautiful, intelligent, strong, funny, & brilliant at least once a day. I promis...
Print is dead. If you’re tearing up a bit, screaming inside your head no it’s not! or having some nostalgic thought about the value of touching a magazine or flipping through the pages of your fave b...
Alrightey, so I’m sure you’re all wondering how the big NY move went. Here’s your 10 sec, Top 10: 10. Blisters 9. Got sick — twice 8. Worked on the Times Square Forever 21 lau...
I have a confession to make. As I stood in line 2 long hours waiting for EG (as I fondly call Emily Giffin) to sign my SoBo (Something Borrowed) & SoBlue (Something Blue) books at her HOTM book l...
GUEST BLOGGER: Kaycie, fashionista Kaycie shares her Fashion Icon — who’s yours? When you think of fashion icons, who do you think of? Coco Chanel? Givenchy? Calvin Klein? How about your ...
I’m super sorry for hating on summer so much. Turns out, summer ain’t all that bad. While I’ve been out grilling dogs, drinking diet coke, kayaking and urban exploring in my fave ci...
Last summer, during a super awesome awareness weekend workshop (The Power of Awareness) I made an agreement with myself. That I wasn’t ready to move to NY. That if I did move to NY, it would only be ...
It’s true. Ask your best friend, your mom or even me. When you’ve been sexually abused, as a child or an adult, the biggest thing you lose is your voice. You feel ashamed. Like it was you...
“And quite frankly, your Type A personality pisses me off,” the soccer mom growled at me this am as I slipped into security at Dulles-Washington airport on my way to Atlanta. What did I do to illicit...
Check out a behind the scenes look at designer, Cressida Rose, of Lady Lucia Designs. Lady Lucia, born from a creative impulse and love for jewelry, a passion passed down from Cressida’s mother...
Hey girlfriend, So here’s the deal. My Voice is Strong is about to go international. Yeah, you read it right. We just met the sweetest, most fashionable bloggers the city of love has to offer. ...
The talented, fabulous and fashionable chef Angela McKeller tell My Voice is Strong what she wore today!
Is it just me, or is that girl kinda a B*? I asked my bestie this morning. We chat every morning over coffee. In fact, most mornings she is my wake-up call. Hardly need an alarm clock anymore. So thi...
We Loove STRONG women. And the three leading ladies of Blues in the Night musical are just that. With nicknames like, “the lady from the road,” “the girl with a date,” and ...
Chuck and Blair, Blair and Chuck forever, right? I guess not. Okay, so The Unblairable Lightness of Being aired a few weeks ago, but I keep hearing Blair say, I hate who I’ve become. Quick reca...
photography by Dan Smigrod, Atlanta fashion and glamour photographer; dresses from Fab’rik Atlanta and Lexie + Jane; and GORGEOUS designer bag (in turquoise) from KiNG FLY My Voice is Strong Te...
We had the amazing opportunity last week to chat with almost a dozen artists from the 6th annual Druid Hills Artist Market (chaired by local Druid Hills vintage handkerchief collector, Joanna Stroud)...
Anyone else a slacker like me? Just sent the taxes in and learned quite a bit about my business. Cool, thing about taxes? Not only do we get free coffee and chicken fingers (and ice cream and burrito...
Alright, we need your vote again. We’re ready to pack our closets full of Spring Summer (SS) 2010 hot finds, but need help figuring out what is fashion and what is FAD. See the pictures from th...
Yeah, we’re fierce, tough, strong, and we get stuff done. But our voices can’t be strong all the time. Sometimes we gotta let the margarita speak for us. (Don’t hate us for the insi...
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