The Hit List -Brownies and Ageism

The Hit List -Brownies and Ageism

by | Dec 6, 2014 | The Hit List

When I was a little girl, my mother enrolled me in Brownies (Girl Scouts for little kids).  She thought it might be good for me to hang with girls my own age and play outside. I was a lone wolf and a book nerd. I was also never one for the great outdoors and I...
The Hit List – The same cloth

The Hit List – The same cloth

by | Nov 29, 2014 | The Hit List

The last few weeks, I’ve been aggravated with my husband.  Why?  It’s because he decided to do some major reorganizing and renovating the week before my big retreat.  And nothing has been completed. I’ve been living in disarray for what seems an eternity. The worst...
The Hit List – Comebacks

The Hit List – Comebacks

by | Nov 22, 2014 | The Hit List

No one was cheering louder than me when Jackie Earle Haley got back on the silver screen in “Little Children.”  JEH was one of my major childhood crushes so seeing him back on film was all sorts of girly nostalgia for me. (For the record: I was pissed when he didn’t...
The Hit List – I will not cry

The Hit List – I will not cry

by | Nov 15, 2014 | The Hit List, Uncategorized

Are you going to cry when I leave? Why aren’t you crying? If that was me, I’d be crying. Will you cry later? My baby girl is gone far, far away.  This is the furthest she’s been from home.  Madrid.  Gorgeous, glorious Spain. This is an act of bravery for my little...
The Hit List – I’m bossy

The Hit List – I’m bossy

by | Nov 1, 2014 | The Hit List, Uncategorized

Recently, someone told a friend that I was “bossy” on the same day that a woman remarked that I had “too many business rules.” Bossy. Too many rules. Code words for “bitch” (often followed by  “control freak”, “how dare she” and “who does she think she...

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