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Fitting in fitness: Need your help! Ok, we've procrastinated enough. Or at least I have. In this week's column I'm asking for your advice for eliminating time-eaters that get in the way of fitness time and your advice on how to restart a healthy routine. Put... Read more... Posted on 7:21 PM on 10/27/06 | Comments (22)
Join the conversation about breast cancer! We recently published an entire issue focused on breast cancer awareness. If you have a personal story of survival, an insight that has helped you, or just a comment that might help somebody else...this is a great place to share... Read more... Posted on 10:16 AM on 10/01/06 | Comments (9)
Forum: Talk about the cancer vaccine There is a movement to make the HPV vaccine that protects again cervical cancer mandatory for young girls in Michigan. What do you think? Talk to each other about this important topic. Read more... Posted on 9:41 AM on 09/25/06 | Comments (166)
GR8 PLATE for Breast Cancer? For an upcoming issue marking Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Twist is looking for vanity plates that say, "I survived!" If you have a vanity plate touting survival or know someone who does, please send a description and photo to: twistdetroit@freepress.com.... Read more... Posted on 2:02 PM on 09/14/06 | Comments (3)
Too young, too old My busiest days for email traffic is over the weekend as readers pick up Twist in the Sunday Detroit Free Press. This week I got conflicting emails and phone messages. One caller said we should do more stories about single... Read more... Posted on 12:14 PM on 09/11/06 | Comments (4)
Spaaaah! No laboring this Labor Day weekend! Come to Pontiac on Friday, Saturday, Sunday or Monday and stop by the Twist Life Time Fitness LifeSpa at Arts, Beats & Eats. We'll be in the only air conditioned tent and a great... Read more... Posted on 9:11 PM on 08/31/06 | Comments (2)
Back to school musings We have a really fun issue this weekend on getting the house, the kids, your mind in back to school mode. But for me, it's a reminder that in one year from now, my oldest will be heading to college.... Read more... Posted on 10:34 AM on 08/18/06 | Comments (1)
Submit a Pulse poll question! The Pulse poll results are always fun to watch as they come in each week. And the results are fun to share in the print edition. Twist is always looking for fun, creative questions to put online. If you have... Read more... Posted on 12:20 PM on 08/02/06 | Comments (8)
Chore wars on the homefront This weekend's Twist has a great cover and story on working as a team at home on the chores and dreaded clutter. It's provoked quite a debate at work and home. Our poll question had pretty predictable results -- the... Read more... Posted on 10:12 AM on 07/28/06 | Comments (2)
Story ideas: Need your help! When we say Twist is your magazine, we aren't kidding. Many, many of our featured women, products, businesses, trend and topics come from Twist readers. With the abundance of email and the clutter they provide, I'm hoping to talk about... Read more... Posted on 2:38 PM on 07/06/06 | Comments (30)
Shaq attack! If you are a die hard Pistons fan, can you imagine a worse place to be right now than Miami? Actually, I'm not in Miami, I am outside Miami but painfully close to both Miami and Ft. Lauderdale and believe... Read more... Posted on 7:58 PM on 06/22/06 | Comments (1)
Florida bound! After months of preparing for the launch of Twist and 7 weeks under our belt, I am taking my hands off the controls and heading to Florida for a week with my daughters for a gymnastics tournament. I am currently... Read more... Posted on 9:05 AM on 06/21/06 | Comments (2)
Send photos of you and your pet! Twist is going to have some fun online with photos of you and your pet. Have a fun photo? Send it to twistdetroit@freepress.com in JPEG form. Tell us your name, your pets name and a little about the moment. Look... Read more... Posted on 6:13 PM on 06/07/06 | Comments (1)
New issue this weekend! This weekend our 5th issue of Twist comes out in the Sunday Free Press. Remember, some of you will get it Saturday with the inserts and comics packets, others will get it Sunday. Look for it! You'll learn about an... Read more... Posted on 5:33 PM on 06/02/06 | Comments (1)
Memorial Day musings I really look forward to Saturday and Sunday when I get most of my emails from readers when they get Twist with the Saturday or Sunday Free Press. Today was especially nice because I heard from the sister of an... Read more... Posted on 5:36 PM on 05/29/06 | Comments (0)
Work worries. Mom worries. I worry. It's one of the things I do best. As the editor, I've been obsessively worried about launching Twist online and in print. We're four weeks into it. So far so good. But those worries are nothing compared to... Read more... Posted on 4:08 PM on 05/26/06 | Comments (1)
Pistons lost, but I found a friend! I was in line to get my face painted at the Palace last night -- yes, it's true, I have never really grown up. Anyway, while in line I started talking to a woman behind me -- she, too, has... Read more... Posted on 11:40 AM on 05/24/06 | Comments (10)
Emails? Talk here, too I am getting dozens of emails from Twist readers and I love it! Since Saturday/Sunday when the third issue of Twist hit doorsteps I've heard from dozens of you. Keep the email coming. But I'd also like you to tell... Read more... Posted on 7:13 PM on 05/22/06 | Comments (4)
Issue 3: Rule #1 OK, our third printed issue of Twist hits doorsteps and news stands this weekend. My lesson this week or as I call it, Rule Number One: Remember, you have early deadlines. You're a weekly. No do-overs. Lucky for me, we... Read more... Posted on 10:10 AM on 05/20/06 | Comments (2)
Stuffed, folded, inserted It's all so technical. Twist is more than words on paper, interviews and wonderful images and design. I'm learning that how we fold it is important to readers. Why the 'lip' or the added paper on one side? It makes... Read more... Posted on 6:23 PM on 05/18/06 | Comments (0)
What women want I started to say earlier that I went to a conference yesterday in Chicago to talk about women and why many aren't terribly smitten by newspapers these days. Is it that we're too busy? Is it that we find monthly... Read more... Posted on 1:54 PM on 05/17/06 | Comments (2)
Chicago and no shopping! It's criminal. I just got back from Chicago where I spent about 28 hours. I attended a workshop at the Chicago Sun Times where we talked about newspapers and the importance of women readers. It was a good workshop but... Read more... Posted on 9:49 AM on 05/17/06 | Comments (2)
Women are pretty thoughtful! One of the great things I'm learning in just a few weeks of talking to Twist readers is that women are very cool to talk to. The response has been fantastic. I just don't think our sports editor has gotten... Read more... Posted on 11:45 AM on 05/15/06 | Comments (3)
Motherless daughters speech I am giving a speech to a wonderful group of women this morning (Saturday) at a luncheon to celebrate our mothers even though they aren't with us on Mother's Day. I thought I would share it with other Twist readers.... Read more... Posted on 9:34 AM on 05/13/06 | Comments (5)
Second issue is out! Our second issue hits doorsteps tomorrow and Sunday. It's a relief to see another issue out. We'd been looking at the first one so long. It's a very cool issue dedicated to having a mom or being one. some nice... Read more... Posted on 7:50 PM on 05/12/06 | Comments (0)
Feedback rolling in Readers of the first issue of Twist have given very postive feedback. Men want to know if it's OK for them to read. Of course it is! I'm guessing they will learn some valuable things about us. A couple women... Read more... Posted on 4:52 PM on 05/09/06 | Comments (0)
Welcome to Twist! It’s been a wild ride since our new Vice President and Editor, Paul Anger posed the career changing question to me in September: “What would you think of heading up a team to look at a magazine for metro Detroit... Read more... Posted on 2:51 PM on 04/25/06 | Comments (13)
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