The growing baby hardly made a bump under the simple fabric of her wedding dress. It was the obligatory yellow sash tied around her waist that told her story and her fall from grace.
The 15-yea...Read More >
I had an interesting conversation with my friend Jean yesterday. while we don’t get to speak all that much there is such a deep connection between the two of us that I often feel like we’r...Read More >
So yesterday I gave my two weeks notice at the job that has been causing me so much stress and facial breakouts - I feel 10 pounds lighter already.
But it hit me this morning, that for...Read More >
My better half is on his way home after a 5-day business trip and it might as well have been five weeks.
Since he’s been gone we’ve hit multiple levels in the “Are you kiddi...Read More >
Skirt! Sisters,
I will not be online for a bit. I am moving to Toccoa, GA. This is where I hope to not only move forward and up, I hope to prove everyone who doubts me that I am capable of more than ...Read More >
Sometimes, we can get depressed over a task that we will have to perform in the near future. When this happens, visualize yourself doing the task in your mind. For instance, you and your team have to ...Read More >
When facing a current or upcoming task that overwhelms you with a lot of anxiety, the first thing you can do is to divide the task into a series of smaller steps. Completing these smaller tasks one at...Read More >
Independence Day, huh!
The day America commemorates sending us British packing.
Every now and then, someone will ask me: “So, what’s it like being here on the 4th of July?”
Well, ...Read More >
I’m an anti-feminist,” she declared, looking around at her classmates for approval.
I must have heard wrong. Of course, I had heard of such mythical beasts, but I assumed they were all se...Read More >
Over the last five years or so, I became a woman who shops like a man. I have a list, I go into a store, make a purchase (or not), and leave. No more endless comparison shopping, no more monitoring ma...Read More >
I was born in the early seventies—a great time to be a feminist baby. It was the Free to Be…You and Me era, and my parents were two baby boomers who, while not quite flower children, t...Read More >
Valerie Hlavaty has always loved fashion and drawing, and she has taken on the task of teaching that love to Texas Tech students in the nutrition, hospitality and retailing department of the College o...Read More >
OK, class, time for a quiz. True or False?
1. “Men are, by nature, violent, sexually predatory, and irresponsible” is a statement that could only have been penned by that notorious femi...Read More >