Chopping Brush
A post on the Facebook group Pantsuit Nation made me cry this morning. It was by a young woman of color working as a Staff Assistant in the U.S. Congress […]
Category Archives: Girly Things
Thank you Donald Trump
Donald Trump is the best thing to happen to American women since Seneca Falls. In my work I get to facilitate conversations about implicit bias (racism, sexism, classism etc.) usually by […]
Hillary Can Join my Car Pool
I survived watching the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The only moment that made me scream “What!?!” at the top of my lungs came during post-debate […]
What Your Mother Has Done
A New York Times opinion piece about work/life balance (“A Toxic Work World“) is making the rounds and stirring up a storm of comments. The author points out, among other […]
Frus Stra Shen
I wish I had a truth mirror. I would hold it up in front of my clients so they could magically see what others see. One of my biggest frustrations […]
Crazy Busy is Not a Thing
I recently described the last six months of my life as a time of “unprecedented stress.” What would have been more accurate is if I had said to my friend […]
Losing Your Rhythm
Anyone needing an easy laugh should come to my Jazzercise class on days the instructor works in routines that require clapping. Since I have yet to master the ability move […]
Why We Still Need Women’s History Month
As Women’s History month drifts to a close I feel like we are running in place with once step forward, two steps back on improving gender equity. And don’t get […]
Story Weaving
This morning, I heard someone say “women hold up half the sky”, and I thought, “I would be happy if most people just held up their half of the conversation.” […]
Women I’ve Known
The people who produce the William-Sonoma catalog are diabolical. Dinner plates in soft pastels, serving dishes with whimsical bunnies, botanical linens all scattered with charming alabaster eggs. It arrives in […]
6 Things I’m Bad At
As I get ever closer to my 50th birthday its seems every where I look there is a list of something I should be paying attention to like “15 Things […]
Pigs in Space
I have been writing too much for the last month to write a blog post in case that’s an acceptable excuse. No time to rant, rave and pick apart the […]
Fact or Opinion
Over dinner the other night we had one of those twisty turny conversations that kept us at the table an hour longer than it took to eat our food. During […]
It’s everyone’s responsibility to end domestic violence
Every once in a while I wake up with a migraine so bad it gives me black eyes. Like my nose caught a softball. Or a fist. That’s today. Pain […]
“Tell us what you really think”
There are lots of ways to shut down women when they are speaking. For me the one that stings the most – even more than being called bossy, intimidating, strident […]
