Throughout my career and from time to time, management asks me to go through the exercise of filling out a professional version of the Cosmo quiz to figure out who I am and how to fix me – errr, help me reach my potential. In my twenties I found these “professional personality tests” fascinating. Mostly […] Read more…
Birthday Wishes
Birthdays are annual milestones by which we measure our life’s progress. We dread them, we embrace them, we celebrate them, and sometimes we try to bribe the office admin to not send out a reminder email to the entire office that it is our birthday that week. My personal favorite was my 25th birthday when me and […] Read more…
Girls, Girls, Girls!
Perhaps it’s the combination of having spent the last twelve years of my life working in the heavily male dominated industry of banking and finance. Perhaps it is the fact that I’ve spent most of those years working in one of the most image and body conscious cities in America, Scottsdale Arizona. But whatever the […] Read more…
Tripping Out
One of the great joys in my life has always been travel. When I was younger and worked in politics the extensive traveling I did during campaign season was exciting and interesting. It was the chance for my wide-eyed twenty something year old self to explore and experiencing the world. In my thirties, as a mom, I traveled […] Read more…
I’ll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours
I already know I am going to piss everyone off with this posting so bring it! This week in Washington the Democrats played mean eight grade girl politics and pushed for a vote on a pay equality bill which died in the Senate: http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_20790507/senate-bill-pay-equality-fails-proceed The Dems basically want to get the Republicans on the record […] Read more…
The Ultimate Vacation
This week I realized I am truly sick. Or in desperate need of a vacation. Possibly both. The realization came to me in a blinding flash of clarity earlier this week. I was in my car zoning out to NPR when they started talking about a Las Vegas woman, Miki Sudo, who had called in a […] Read more…
Til Death Do Us Part
Marriage is hard. Let me repeat for effect: Marriage is hard. It is mostly awesome but damn, is it hard sometimes. I have ten years of marriage under my belt. Semi-significant but certainly not medal-worthy. But ten years gives you a bit of a perspective. And I can say in all honesty that I had no […] Read more…
Me and Young M.C.
I have to start off by apologizing for the misleading title and the shameless self-promotion of me with one of the most influential (in my book at least) rap artists of the 90’s – a decade of which I am extremely fond. Okay so with that out-of-the-way, here’s the reason I’m babbling about Young M.C.: […] Read more…
The Joy of Cooking
As every working mother with children of a certain age know, Mother’s Day is also judgement day. It’s the day your young child makes you a gift at school that usually requires them choosing some descriptive words about how they experience you as a mother: nice, loving, caring, time-challenged, insane. And the best part is […] Read more…
Wine, Women, and Money – It’s Not Just a Rap Song
Some of you may remember that last year my friend Kelli and I were such bitter b**ches that we were actually sick of our own whining. So to get our mojo back we decided to start off this year with an “empower women” event which would bring together all the women we love and celebrate our collective fabulousness – and you […] Read more…