Liz Herring's List of Links

Web Sites for My Intelligent and Beautiful Wife

(A completely unbiased and unsolicited testimonial from her adoring husband)

The sunlight clasps the earth
And the moonbeams kiss the sea:
What is all this sweet work worth
If thou kiss not me?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

16381 visitors have stopped by since May 13th, 1996.

Web Sites of Interest to Women

iVillage.com: the women's Network Your home on the web. For stuff that really matters.
"Advice on pregnancy & parenting
"From trying to conceive through your child's teen years, iVillage Pregnancy & Parenting offers up-to-date and informative articles, features, expert advice and more for each age and stage in your child's development."
The Natural Child Project All children behave as well as they are treated
"Multiple-award-winning site on parenting and education that respects children."
DotMoms Writing our momoirs
"DotMoms is a weblog that features smart, fun, and focused writing about motherhood from many perspectives. The DotMoms are good writers with something to say about life on the homefront. We aim to be a diverse group that reflects all kinds of moms (different ages, locations, races, religions, etc.) and all kinds of kids.
What distinguishes us is not only our subject matter and format, but also our tone -- light-hearted and laser sharp -- and our focus: zoomed in on what it's like to belong to a family, as mothers, wives, daughters-in-law, daughters, sisters and more."
WWWomen! The Premier Search Directory for Women Online!
WOW: Women Online Worldwide dedicated to the late Rebecca Boone
Chat areas, Tapestry (bi-monthly webzine), weekly webcasts, shopping mall with women-friendly vendors & services, calendar of events, and much more.
CondéNet and Condé Nast Magazines One can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many magazines
The Web Center for Women's Health hosted by the Women's Hospital and the University of Manitoba
A resource for information about obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences.
S.P.O.T. The Tampon Health Website

Other Women's Home Pages

Lynsa's Home Page Queen of Everything, former Webmistress of Teleport, and now President of Siprelle and Associates
Ilana Stern
Outdoorswoman, adventurer, sailor, and former compiler of the sci.geo.meteorology FAQ.

Coffee, Chocolate & Wine

"Most people just don't know how to make good coffee. In the first place, they boil the water before they put the coffee in. Any fool knows you gotta put the coffee in the cold water and bring them both to a boil together. That way you get all of the flavor. Worst thing they do, they throw away the old grounds after using them once. What they don't know is that they are throwing away the best part. You got to keep them old grounds and you add a little fresh coffee every morning and let her boil. Shoot, you don't make a cup, you build a pot. You don't really get a good pot until you've been usin' it about a week. Then it's coffee!" -- Chester Goode, of Gunsmoke fame

Kèan Coffee
Martin Diedrich, owner and manager (with his wife, Karen) of Kèan Coffee, is carrying on the fine tradition started by his father, Carl. Martin is a Master Roaster and one of a select few to have been awarded the Specialty Coffee Association of America's (SCAA) Lifetime Achievement Award. This is where we order our beans.
Stumptown Coffee Roasters best beans and brew in Portland and Seattle!
Koffee Korner
"Home for the coffee connoisseurs. Probably the best coffee website on the Internet."
CoffeeGeek Information, Opinion, Reviews, and More
"CoffeeGeek is what is commonly known as a "community" website, one that allows active participation by people from around the world. CoffeeGeek's main purpose is to inform, educate and entertain coffee and espresso lovers from around the world."
INeedCoffee Non-Commercial Caffeination Information
"INeedCoffee.com intends to be the most comprehensive gathering of coffee information on the Internet. It is dedicated to providing quality coffee-related information, instruction, and entertainment."
Caffeine information and resources Expert articles on caffeine and coffee.
Shock's Hot Coffee Pix

Moonstruck Chocolate Co.
"Moonstruck Chocolate Company is a hand crafted artisan chocolate company based in Portland, Oregon." They are easily our family's favorite!
Godiva Online Home Page
Virtual Chocolate Mouthwatering Chocolate Images
"Send fellow chocolate lovers, valentines and friends virtual chocolate treats. Chocoholics and lovers find links to fine chocolates, chocolate companies and chocolate products."
Intemperantia European Designer Chocolates
"Intemperantia.com ( self-indulgence.net ) chocolates specializing in premier Swiss and French pralines, truffles and other chocolate specialties from Europe. The finest life has to offer."
ChocoNet Chocolates
ChocoNet specializes in customized chocolate for corporate needs and family events."

Wine Spectator On-Line: Wines, Food & Travel
Yahoo's Wine links.

Fashion & Shopping

Nordstrom
"ShopLocal.com brings you great deals on everything your family needs in local stores and from top online retailers."
NOVICA
"Novica unites you with more than 2,000 extraordinary master artists around the world. Read about their lives, explore their fascinating cultures, and select from more than 15,000 handcrafted works of art."
SUPERMODEL.COM
"The first fully authorized site for supermodels, model and rising stars with a growing fashion section and a supermodel shop that offers the very best in supermodel merchandise, such as calendars, posters, tee-shirts and videos."
Beautynet.com The virtual salon for beauty, wellness and style
sephora.com The most beauty online
``Sephora is currently the leading chain of perfume and cosmetics stores in France and the second-largest in Europe. Sephora was formed in 1993, and was acquired by LVMH in 1997. It arrived in the United States in mid-1998 with the opening of its first stores in New York and Miami. Our emphasis on giving you the "Freedom to Choose" means our expansion has been rapid.''
Make-up by Armando Cosmetics, Skin Care, and Make-up Instruction.

Favorite TV Shows, Stars & Resources

ER
Grey's Anatomy
Desperate Housewives
HGTV Home & Garden Television
TLC The Learning Channel: Life Unscripted
A Wedding Story, A Baby Story, A Dating Story, Trading Spaces, While You Were Out, What Not to Wear & Trauma.
E! Online Home of Wild On and the Fashion Police
TheCelebrityCafe.com The Internet's Longest Running Entertainment Magazine
"TheCelebrityCafe.com has in-depth, thoughtful interviews with your favorite celebrities, musicians, authors, actors, athletes, writers and more... Even contests and triva. Updated daily."
Sky Showbiz
"The online UK destination for show biz news, celebrity gossip, sports star scandal and soap star news. Be first to find out about the latest celeb romance to hit the rocks, celebrity fashion faux pas and all of the latest TV, music and movie star rumours."
TV Ad Music
What is that music from your favourite TV advert? Find all the songs that sell you stuff here.
Adtunes.com Find TV Commercial Ad Music
TV Theme Songs - TelevisionTunes.com

Rock Climbing

Climbing Resource
Climbing Magazine
"We are the number 1 source of award-winning features, photos, breaking news, equipment reviews, and beta for the vertical world."
Rock Climbing.com Rockclimbing.com relies on the community of climbers to provide new and quality content.
SCMA's Rock Climbing Home Page
"THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINEERS ASSOCIATION was founded in 1986 to provide an organization for meeting other climbers of all abilities, to promote our sport and to foster safe climbing."
Be sure to check out their LINKS to other informative web sites
Archive of Rock Climbing Moves and Tips
"Climbing isn't about strength, it's about thinking. Know the right techniques and it's all easy!"

Miscellany

Huntington Beach California - Orange County History aka "Surf City", what I still think of as "home".
Part of Orange County California History - OCThen.com, the definitive guide to the history of Orange County, California.
The Aerospace Corporation
Where my Dad (may he rest in peace - and yes, he was a rocket scientist) worked at a job he loved almost as much as his family.

Miscellaneous

Medical Matrix Guide to Internet Clinical Medicine Resources "In order to continue to provide this valuable service, the entire Web site will only be available to paid subscribers effective September 1, 2002." *sigh*
Virtual Hospital Home Page the Apprentice's Assistant (TM)
Access Excellence A place in cyberspace for Biology teaching and learning.
"Access Excellence, launched in 1993, is a national educational program that provides high school biology and life science teachers access to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific information via the World Wide Web."
Resource Central - Medical
Healthatoz - The Search Engine for Health and Medicine
"A comprehensive Search Engine for Health & Medicine. Exclusively catalogued by medical professionals. Also features Free Medline, Health topics, HealthAtoZ news, discussion forums, chat rooms & much more."
Hardin Meta Directory of Internet Health Sources "We list the sites that list the sites"
Hardin Meta Directory pages have pointers to the most complete and frequently cited lists in each subject.
Journals of the AMA
Where you'll find the Web editions of the AMA's Scientific Publications and American Medical News, plus physician recruitment advertising, Science News press releases on the latest reports in the AMA journals, links to condition-specific Web sites, and more. provided as a public service by the AMA. You can access the full range of features the site has to offer, including abstracts, letters to the editor, selected full-text, a searchable archive and more, with no charge or obligation. They do request you complete a brief, one-time visitor form to help them know better who is visting the site, but filling out this form is not required to access the site's content.
Countway Digital Library
"The Countway Digital Library is the Harvard Medical Area's gateway to licensed digital resources in the biomedical sciences and public health." A Countway Plus account, Harvard ID or HMS/HSPH IP address is necessary to access parts of the site.
The Visible Human Project conducted by the National Library of Medicine.
The Visible Human Project is an outgrowth of the NLM's 1986 Long-Range Plan. It is creating complete, anatomically detailed, three-dimensional representations of the male and female human body. The current phase of the project is collecting transverse CT, MRI and cryosection images of representative male and female cadavers at one millimeter intervals. The long-term goal of the Visible Human Project is to produce a system of knowledge structures that will transparently link visual knowledge forms to symbolic knowledge formats such as the names of body parts.
American Heart Association National Center
The American Lung Association
The Official Web Site of the American Lung Association - "When You Can't Breathe, Nothing Else Matters."
OncoLink The University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center Resource
The first multimedia oncology information resource placed on the Internet. It's objectives are (1) Dissemination of information relevant to the field of oncology, (2) Education of health care personnel, (3) Education of patients, families, and other interested parties, and (4) Rapid collection of information pertinent to the specialty.
World Health Network
The definitive source for information and products in the exploding field of longevity and anti-aging medicine.