Remember that scene from “When Harry Met Sally?” The one where Meg Ryan fakes an orgasm in the middle of Katz’s Deli? I’ve provided a link for those of you who need a little refresher: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-v1TZ5qhY4 As hilarious as that scene is it is the gal at the next table who delivers the line that has […] Read more…
April 2012 archive
Sleeping Beauty is Dead
It’s official: women are sick of waiting for prince charming. 66% of women in a Pew Research Center study place higher importance on being self-rescuing princesses than Sleeping Beauties. 66% of women ages 18-34 responded by stating that being successful in a high-paying career or profession is “one of the most important things” or “very important” in their lives […] Read more…
Getting Old Kicks A**!
My aunt Anne is in Rwanda teaching medical professionals protocols for cancer and AIDS patients. Here is this sweet unassuming mother of two grown sons who has spent her life taking care of everyone else – her sons, her husband, and the patients she’s ministered to as a nurse. So she turns sixty and think […] Read more…
Get Your God On!
As working moms the concept we’re most familiar with is “rush.” We rush to work, we rush from a late meeting with a client home to our families, we rush to make a vaguely edible dinner for our families, we rush to the grocery story to buy a dozen white eggs to hard boil at 10pm in […] Read more…
“My Friends Are My Estate.” – Emily Dickinson
I’d be a raving lunatic if it weren’t for my friends. I’d have divorced my husband, abandoned my children, left my job, walked away from my home, and be living in a van down by the river if it weren’t for the women in my life. My girlfriends keep me honest and sane. It’s almost as if my friends […] Read more…