All Entries in the "BwhoUR" Category
Stop Waiting on the World to Change…Be the Change!
Driving to work this morning, I was listening to John Mayer’s “Waiting on the World to Change”. Love the song, but I find some fault with it and as I thought more and more about it, one thought led to another and the snowball turned into an avalanche of thoughts and feelings. ‘Waiting on the [...]
One Foot in Front of the Other…
I certainly don’t have all the answers but I have been around the block a time or two… I spent my lunch hour listening to a college girl wax on about how she needs to get a life, and how things aren’t going her way, and how she’s just waiting until next fall when she [...]
Middle-Aged, High School Bimbos With $$
Okay, so here’s the deal. If you are following my rants on Facebook (fan the page in the right margin if you would, please) you will know that I have recently discovered The Real Housewives of NYC on the Bravo Channel. Oh-my-goodness, I have to confess something: I watched a marathon of this show last [...]
Be Yourself, But Do You Know Who You Are?
Back in 2007 when I was furiously printing tee-shirts, I started the BwhoUR Movement (see the link in the right margin and join us if you haven’t yet). Okay, truth be told, it was hardly a ‘movement’, but a passionate explanation of everything I see and hear wrong with women and girls of all ages [...]
Put Yourself Out There
Okay, I don’t know about you, but I have all kinds of ideas. All sorts of things I want to do, wish I were doing, projects I want to launch, people I wish I could meet. I talk about all of these ‘wishes’ so often, even I start to get sick of myself. I know [...]
Gym Rat Returneth…
Tomorrow I go back to work. I am SO GLAD. I need a vacation from my vacation. My vacation that was never really a vacation, for me at least. I will spare you the details, but it is safe to say that I have not enjoyed this holiday season much, if at all. I am [...]
Living 2010 with Purpose
I have been doing a lot of thinking lately. How did I get here? Do I like where I am? Why am I so critical of myself? Is it warranted? Am I too hard on myself? What do I really wish I were doing at any given time? If today was my last day on [...]
Social Hierarchy of First Grade
I recently took little D to a classmate’s birthday party. The party was for a girl, but there were 3 boys invited to the party, 2 of which came, 1 being my son. This was a group of the usual suspects from the little girl’s party in kindergarten and I enjoyed seeing the physical transformation [...]
Them: the Perfect People
You know what bugs me? Well, a lot of things actually, but one thing in particular that bugs me beyond measure is the ‘fake perfectness’ portrayed by Them. You don’t know Them? ‘They’ are the Perfect People, for which they never seem to have a hair out of place, a momentary slip of ‘crazy’, a [...]
An Experiment with No Bunsen Burner
Last year on the BwhoUR Network, I ran an experiment. A couple of dozen bloggers took part in the experiment with me. I was wondering if a person reading a blog would be more apt to leave a comment if they saw that others always commented? You know what I’m trying to say? I was [...]
“Firsts”
It is always hard to do things for the first time. Start a new job, have your first baby (I remember panicking not knowing what labor would be like!), start a new school or grade… This morning was the first day of school for my little 1st grader. He knows the routine, he flourished in [...]
My Life as a Gym Rat begins again tomorrow…
Did you know I played NCAA Division I volleyball? I did. There was a time in my late teens and early 20s that I was a gym rat, working out and running (UGH) everyday. Best shape of my life. Yeh… That seems like a million years ago. I’m on a mission to bring that body back and the mission starts Monday morning…
Making Friends
**this post was adapted from a previous post I wrote…** worth revisiting, in my humble opinion… Love you JW! As a young child, making friends was pretty easy. “You like Barbies?” She’d answer, “Yep!” and we were bonded. We’d prick our fingers in the rock pile in the backyard and become blood sisters (the thought [...]
A First and a 5 Adjective Exercise
Oh My Gawd…. I just spent the last 20 minutes being MORE PRODUCTIVE than I have been in YEARS. Wanna know why/how? I have been talking about it for awhile now but never actually DID it until this morning. I strapped my laptop to the flat panel (where books go) of my treadmill and hopped [...]
Saying “No” Feels Darned Good
You wouldn’t know it, but I’m a ‘pleaser’. I realize that I really like committing myself to lots of things, as if somehow I’m going to get an award for ‘Most Amazing Multi-Tasker’. Problem is, I’m more suited to be awarded for ‘Craziest Fool’. This week, I have over-committed myself to WAY too many projects [...]
