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The American Association of University Women sent me an email inviting my readers to participate in tonight’s big meeting with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. The AAUW included a thought provoking list of questions that pertain to the education of girls in particular. Read them and feel free to comment on them in the […]
Millionaire Women Next Door: The Many Journeys of Successful American Businesswomen has a list of attributes, habits and characteristics that highly successful women’s parents share. Looked at another way, parents can use this list to increase our daughters’ odds of becoming financially independent. Financial independence is the force (rather than greed or consumption) driving the […]
I feel sure that this is perhaps the only thing ever written on The Girl Revolution that is not in any way controversial: Breast Cancer is Bad. Donating money for breast cancer research is good. Pixascope Creative Agency and Between the Covers Book Club are partnering to beat down breast cancer by participating in the […]
I thought this was a wonderful and inspiring speech. It’s really what children of this nation should hear: We expect great things from you. Try. Hard.
There’s an article, Ad Literacy 101 on Babble, about five recommendations for parents to teach their children about advertising. I know I use many of these methods in everyday life with my kids. I’ll give a brief recap and explain how I use the method. You can go read the article in its entirety for […]
The other day I put away my scale. Hid it where I won’t think about it anymore. I’d been weighing every Monday morning. It’s not that it’s telling me bad news . . . its just that what I’ve been doing isn’t working. I’m not getting the results I should be getting. When I’m doing […]
So we’re on our way out the door to do the school drop off and Ainsley drops her full metal water bottle right on her big toe. There was screaming. Hysteria. Crying. Poor Zack was scared out of his mind. I’d have sent her to school, except I thought the screaming and crying might disturb […]
1. Pick a perfect theme: I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence by Amy Sedaris. 2. Pick a perfect place. The perfect place will be secluded, not far, and affordable priced. If your good friend offers, “Please come stay in The Pond House anytime!” do not say, “Oh no, I couldn’t.” Instead make your mouth […]
Ainsley doesn’t think this shirt is inappropriate because it just looks like trees on a shirt, “how is that inappropriate?” She wants to know. Which means I deserve a Gold Parenting Star or a Blue Ribbon of Daughter Raising. This means the seven year old is in the minority having not been exposed to Internet […]
This is Ainsley’s Madmen self image. She doesn’t get to watch Madmen, but she hyjacked my self image, so I stepped back and let her create herself. This is my self image. I tried to be as realistic as possible. This may say a lot about how we feel about ourselves. Or it might be […]
Dear New York Publishing Industry, I miss you since I moved to Texas during the last recession. That baby I quit my really awesome travel trade writing/editing job for is 7 and the last baby is 3.5. I want to come back. I’ve been doing two blogs in the meantime, but everyone knows by now […]
She looks like . . . . Me. It’s not me, it’s a model named Lizzie Miller. But, she looks like a normal woman. One I might encounter anywhere, including in my mirror. I gasped when I saw it. In a good way. I’m not sure why I would prefer to see more women looking […]
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