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Category Archive: Girly Things

Graduation Season

cartoon Amanda congratulates cartoon daughter
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It happened again. An acquaintance introduced me to her other friend, and when we got through names, titles […]

Amanda Shaffer 04/06/2021 Current Events, Girly Things, Mother Issues

Bossy Women’s Dance Club

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Raise your hand if you’ve ever been called “bossy”. Or “intimidating”. Or how about “too” anything as in […]

Amanda Shaffer 28/01/2020 Feminism, Girly Things, Random Stuff

Chopping Brush

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A post on the Facebook group Pantsuit Nation made me cry this morning. It was by a young […]

Amanda Shaffer 09/06/2017 Girly Things, Pages, Philosophical, Politics

Thank you Donald Trump

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Donald Trump is the best thing to happen to American women since Seneca Falls. In my work I get […]

Amanda Shaffer 13/10/2016 Clinton, Current Events, Feminism, Girly Things, Uncategorized

Hillary Can Join my Car Pool

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I survived watching the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The only moment that made […]

Amanda Shaffer 27/09/2016 Clinton, Current Events, Feminism, Girly Things, Politics

What Your Mother Has Done

A New York Times opinion piece about work/life balance (“A Toxic Work World“) is making the rounds and […]

Amanda Shaffer 21/09/2015 Current Events, Feminism, Girly Things, Mother Issues, Pages

Frus Stra Shen

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I wish I had a truth mirror. I would hold it up in front of my clients so […]

Amanda Shaffer 23/07/2015 Domestic, Feminism, Girly Things

Crazy Busy is Not a Thing

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I recently described the last six months of my life as a time of “unprecedented stress.” What would […]

Amanda Shaffer 22/05/2015 Girly Things, Philosophical, Writing

Losing Your Rhythm

Anyone needing an easy laugh should come to my Jazzercise class on days the instructor works in routines […]

Amanda Shaffer 07/05/2015 Girly Things, Mother Issues, Philosophical

Why We Still Need Women’s History Month

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As Women’s History month drifts to a close I feel like we are running in place with once […]

Amanda Shaffer 27/03/2015 Feminism, Girly Things, Mother Issues, Philosophical, Politics

Story Weaving

This morning, I heard someone say “women hold up half the sky”, and I thought, “I would be […]

Amanda Shaffer 20/03/2015 Feminism, Girly Things, Philosophical

Women I’ve Known

The people who produce the William-Sonoma catalog are diabolical. Dinner plates in soft pastels, serving dishes with whimsical […]

Amanda Shaffer 10/03/2015 Girly Things, Mother Issues, The Past

6 Things I’m Bad At

As I get ever closer to my 50th birthday its seems every where I look there is a […]

Amanda Shaffer 11/01/2015 Girly Things, Random Stuff

Pigs in Space

I have been writing too much for the last month to write a blog post in case that’s […]

Amanda Shaffer 20/11/2014 Current Events, Feminism, Girly Things, Politics

Fact or Opinion

Over dinner the other night we had one of those twisty turny conversations that kept us at the […]

Amanda Shaffer 26/09/2014 Feminism, Girly Things, Pages, Politics

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