Today is my parent’s 36th wedding anniversary. I asked them how it lasts (I certainly have no idea). According to them, it’s simple. It’s the threads you weave together over the course of time. People that know my parents find them the perfect blend of romantic, silly, and kind. To some they seem perfect-they wear [...]
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Redefining Life’s Blueprint: A Counter to Penelope Trunk
I live in an amazing ecosystem of women who defy convention, reinvent the rules, and passionately take risks to better the world around them. This isn’t everyone’s habitat and the team at Women 2.0 brought it to my attention. The Women 2.0 leadership team was sent the latest blog posting by Penelope Trunk titled,“A Blueprint for [...]
A Love Poem
“Write about love,” she asked. Three weeks before her wedding, one of my closest friends asked me to create a poem to follow the exchange of vows. The world stopped at her request. My limbs stretched and my arms grasped for adjectives to describe this mysterious force. However, no matter how hard I scraped the [...]
Happily Ever After??
Just forty years ago a woman was considered an old maid of she was single in her 30’s. Now she’s considered savvy and independent…by choice. Tuesday night my friend Julie and I traveled to Stanford University to see a screening for the film, “Seeking Happily Ever After,” a documentary on single 30-something women in the [...]
Interview with a Mom…and secrets to a Happy Family Life
Location: Austin, Texas Mileage: Music: “That’s right, you’re not from Texas” by Lyle Lovett Meal: Grits and Quail, no butter spared (do I need a weigh in along the journey?) The landscape once again shape shifted before my eyes and West Texas vastness turned populous…well as populous as small town Texas can do. Peach Orchards [...]
The Road to Nowhere
Location: A long road to Fort Stockton, TX Mileage: 1544 Music: “Life for Rent” by Dido Meal: Too many helpings at a Texan Buffet Anytime you travel you always get asked the same perplexing question: “Where are you from?” Nowhere. Everywhere. I don’t know how to explain my movement over the years. “My parents were [...]