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Women We Love

Feature: All About the Body

10 local women share their secrets for loving the skin you’re in.

by claire charlton and stephanie fenton

Body: Confidence

Let your qualities shine

Brazilian-born Christina Kammuller, 52

Former principal dancer of the Brazilian Guaira Ballet Theatre and owner of Christina’s Adult Ballet in Keego Harbor, shares her perspective about body confidence.

How does one achieve a sense of body confidence? “My perception of

Off the Page: A Journalist's Bookshelf

by claire charlton

We know Fara Warner as a business journalist and the author of The Power of the Purse: How Smart Businesses Are Adapting to the World’s Most Important Consumers – Women (Prentice Hall, 2005. $29.99). But we didn’t know her whole story – such as what’s on her bookshelf. So we caught up with Warner, 41, of Ann Arbor, to find out what books have shaped her.

Insider's Guide: Follow Your Creative Path

COULD YOU TURN A HOBBY INTO YOUR LIFE’S WORK?

by sandra dalka prysby

Wouldn’t you love to get paid to do what you love best? It isn’t just a pipe dream. Sometimes only training is needed to make specialized interests into an employment opportunity. Three local experts reveal what’s involved and how to go about turning your passion into an employment opportunity.

You love: Solving, leading, being your own boss

Your path: Entrepreneur

Catherine Gase
Chief, Marketing & Outreach, and Women’s Business Ownership Representative U.S. Small Business Administration, Detroit

Listen up: Wei Cool

CHINESE MUSICIAN-TURNED- DETROIT-INDIE- PERFORMER DRESSES UP METRO MUSIC SCENE

by sharon macdonell | photo by daniel lippitt

Xiao Dong Wei (“she-ow dong way”) thrives on variety.

When she plays Chinese music on her erhu (“are-who”), a two-stringed Chinese violin,Wei is dressed in delicate silks, her back rigid, her face peaceful. But catch her at the Magic Bag in Ferndale and you might think you’ve stumbled upon her wicked twin sister. As her leather-mini-skirted, garage-band persona Madame XD,Wei rakes furiously at her erhu while rapping in Mandarin.

“Music is my personality, and there are many sides of me,” says Wei, 39, of St. Clair Shores.

In Step With Merrill Guerra

CLOTHIER FOR PLUS-SIZE CHILDREN

by linda lacina

RealKidz Clothing CEO and founder Merrill Guerra poses with her newly designed children’s clothing in her Ypsilanti store.

Feature: Going Places

SOME OF METRO DETROIT’S MOST TRAVELED WOMEN SHARE ADVICE, AND THEIR BEST GEAR AND SHOPS

by ellen piligian and emily hopcian

product photos by rosh sillars

At top: baggalini cosmetics bag, $37.95. Jasmine II Olympia Pullman and Tote, $119, set. Leather Travelpro Luggage tag, $7. Travelon train case (complete with removable 1-quart TSA compliant carry-on pouch, not pictured), $36.50. All luggage this page available at Travelers World, 6253 Orchard Lake Rd.,West Bloomfield, 248.855.3180, www.travelersworld.com

Listen up: Better Late Than Never

WHY AT 62, DETROIT-BORN SOUL SINGER BETTYE LAVETTE IS JUST GETTING STARTED

In 1972, Bettye LaVette was home in Detroit, packed and ready to tour for her justcompleted record with Atlantic.

LaVette had an R&B hit single (My Man – He’s a Lovin’ Man) at 16, but this was her first album and a new beginning. Then the phone rang.

“They said, ‘Would you please send the plane tickets back? We’ve decided not to go forward with the project,’ ” says LaVette, now a resident of West Orange, New Jersey. “Those are the exact words they said.”

The album, Child of the Seventies, was shelved, the tour canceled. LaVette was devastated.

Good Works: Safe Place

VISTA MARIA CONTINUES 125-YEAR TRADITION OF PROVIDING HELP AND HOPE TO GIRLS

by sandra dalka-prysby | photo by brett mountain

Women and girls share a legacy of positive lessons at Vista Maria, a nonprofit child-welfare agency in Dearborn Heights. From left, Ninoshka, Vista Maria teacher Denise Daniel, TaSheema and Patricia Lynett, chief operating officer at Vista Maria.

Nine months ago, Ninoshka* was in juvenile detention.

Getting Together: Gotta Have Art

ARTISTS SHARE IDEAS AND FIND INSPIRATION IN ONE ANOTHER

by joyce wiswell | photo by melissa herndon

Back, from left: Barbara Reich and Jacqueline Hoats-Shields. Front, from left: Lily Dudgeon and Elizabeth Yorgen. The four are members of the 105-year-old Detroit Society of Women Painters and Sculptors.

Some say that women are too competitive with each other. Don’t tell that to the 130 members of the Detroit Society ofWomen Painters and Sculptors. For the past 105 years, members of the oldest sustaining women’s organization in the United States have nurtured and encouraged each other’s artistic ambitions, often becoming good friends in the process.

In step with: April McCrumb

PAPER ARTIST AND ENTREPRENEUR

by joyce wiswell | photo by brett mountain

April McCrumb always was a creative person, but she never dreamed she’d make a career of it. She did the sensible thing, going to college to become a special education teacher and limiting her hobby to the occasional art show. But when her handmade paper products began to really sell,McCrumb chucked the idea of a career in education to pursue her art full time.