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Category Archive: Random Stuff

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

Carrot and Stick

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I don’t know about you but I seem to have an almost magical ability to catalog every moment […]

Amanda Shaffer 31/07/2019 Philosophical, Random Stuff, Uncategorized

Self-Care

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I took a 30 minute walk outside today. A lunch time walk may not sound like big deal […]

Amanda Shaffer 01/02/2016 Philosophical, Random Stuff

Amanda Bear with Too Much Content

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When our daughter was younger she was really into The Bearenstain Bears books and cartoons. The books, if […]

Amanda Shaffer 14/07/2015 Pages, Random Stuff, Writing

Woo Girls and Poker Face

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I have a terrible weakness for good news. Other peoples success, accomplishments, and surprises are an instant empathy […]

Amanda Shaffer 13/04/2015 Random Stuff

Gee Haw Whammy Diddle

My sister and niece were over the house to celebrate my daughters 16th birthday yesterday and, as usual, […]

Amanda Shaffer 20/01/2015 Random Stuff, 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

Hard lessons

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I was at a concert last night where the opening act was just dreadful. The young woman, on […]

Amanda Shaffer 01/10/2014 Random Stuff

Get On Up

This weekend I had to tell my husband that I don’t like James Brown. We decided to go […]

Amanda Shaffer 01/09/2014 Domestic, Random Stuff

Cheap shots

While this title might suggest a lengthy post about the evils of drinking well liquor, it is instead […]

Amanda Shaffer 11/08/2014 Girly Things, Philosophical, Random Stuff

Soft Serve

The street where I grew up boasted a soft serve ice cream stand on the corner called Gigi’s. […]

Amanda Shaffer 05/08/2014 Random Stuff, The Past

Micro, micro dopamine flow. Bite my ass.

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I am being forced to write this blog post by a friend who has suffered through an 8 […]

Amanda Shaffer 24/07/2014 Philosophical, Random Stuff

Civilization Crumbles

The New York Times Social Q’s column sometime in the last couple of months included the line – […]

Amanda Shaffer 09/07/2014 Philosophical, Random Stuff

Zen & The Art of Personal Maintenance

I am very bad at relaxing. That sentence is a good indicator of my poor showing at R&R. […]

Amanda Shaffer 20/06/2014 Random Stuff

Moving

After ten years in the same location at work I’m being relocated. It’s a good thing for my […]

Amanda Shaffer 30/05/2014 Random Stuff

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