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I’ve Already Spent Too Much
You did your homework. You got recommendations from friends and colleagues. You've had the all important first meeting and forked over a large wad of cash to a website designer... so why don't you have a website yet? Many business owners don't realize that when you...
How Will I Get my CDs Back?
Comedian Dane Cook has this amazing line about how women stay in relationships for the strangest reasons. Here's some paraphrasing: "Lisa, we're concerned about you. He's a (bleep). We want you to just go." "Karen, it's not that easy. I can't just go... my CDs are in...
Oh Crap. Now I have to Live my Own Life
Funny story. Just a few weeks before I moved into my first rental (alone), I ended up standing in the candle aisle at Cost Plus: World Market, weeping openly while staring at some pillar candles. No, it wasn't the price (I had a coupon!), it was the decision. I was...
Empty Nest Syndrome – If Birds had Dysfunctional Marriages
You've heard of Empty Nest Syndrome: the transition period that parents go through when their children, the humans that they've been responsible for for the last 18 years, leave home to go to college, travel the globe, get married, work at the Quickie Mart, etc. (Bear...
What Will They Think of Me? (and Other Things that Don’t Freaking Matter)
As women, we are born and raised to be people pleasers. From a young age we are taught not to make waves. We avoid conflict (yep, I'm going with sweeping generalizations here - if you disagree with anything, stop reading... or don't and be entertained by how much of...
Voltaire was a Fricking Genius: Why Death is Better Than Divorce
I remember reading a quote from him when I was younger. I'm probably coming across as super snooty right now with my talk of philosophy. You might even imagine me wearing a plaid jacket with reinforced elbows and drinking tea from a tiny cup, pinky raised high in the...
What Not to Wear and the Plague of Comfy
Are you stuck in Comfort Zone Quicksand? Truth time. I used to be addicted to the show What Not To Wear. I watched every single episode, multiple times, and dreamed of the day that Stacey London would come to my house, rip my closet apart, donate all of my clothes to...
Styrofoam Barbie Furniture and Resourcefulness
My family was pretty poor growing up. We received Food Stamps, my mom made most of my clothing, and I even had a few dolls that she sewed for me. I'm not complaining, plenty of kids have it worse. I always had a roof over my head and I don't think I missed out on any...
Death, Bucket Lists, and Clearance Panties
Warning: Objects in the mirror may appear more morbid than they actually are. I recently lost a friend and fellow speaker to cancer. Of course, everyone has a different reaction to death. Some may feel angry, frightened, or depressed. But I think everyone faces...
Lessons Learned in Poop
We lived in North Carolina when my dog Akasha was still in her mischievous puppy stage (which lasted until about 8-years-old) in a big house with a beautiful family room where we spent most of our time. I did my best to train her not to chew and eat things that were...
Overcoming Your Fears… Except of Clowns
"There is nothing to fear but fear itself." Obviously Franklin D. Roosevelt never met a clown. All joking aside, many of us spend our lives paralyzed by fear, unable to live up to our fullest potential. In order to overcome our fear, we first need to identify what...
Up the Down Escalator
Did you ever notice how we learn our most profound lessons in the most un-profound of ways? During college, I worked as a cashier at Fortunoffs, the mecca of upscale housewares and jewelry in Long Island, New York. There were 4 floors of fine china, small appliances,...
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