It’s my birthday tomorrow. Thanks to Facebook, it isn’t a secret that it’s my birthday. It’s normal protocol for people to ask what you’re doing to celebrate this special day. I feel obligated to tell them something much more interesting than my reality— I’m going out to dinner with good friends.
Actually, my day stacks up like this: at 8:00, I’ll probably go to the gym and work out for an hour. ...
When I was in college and working on my undergraduate degree, each day was like swimming upstream. I had a lot of anxiety surrounding my studying and test taking. This anxiety came with good reason— I wasn’t very good at it. The information went in my brain and then quickly left. When I finally did take a test, I often felt that the questions on the test looked foreign compared to...
Last month celebrated the 50th anniversary of The Feminine Mystique. The online world is still awash with analysis, speculation and wonderment, asking: how far have we come?
From the New School running a symposium asking scholars and experts about the relevancy of Freidan’s work in today’s “post-feminist” world to The Council on Contemporary Families Scholars debunking “new” mystiques―including the “hottie mystique”―in an online symposium.
But who cares about what Friedan did,...
I was having a conversation with a friend at the gym this morning. We were talking about our children and our lives, and that led to a conversation about relationships. She shared that she knew someone that was in a bad marriage and had been for years. She wasn’t sure why this friend stayed in this relationship, but lately, the friend had been telling her about another man that was paying...
My pug Miles and I were thoroughly enjoying our walk when we ran into a neighbor and her puppy. The puppy was twice the size of Miles, but that never bothered Miles before. In his head, Miles thinks he’s the size of a Great Dane. The two dogs had never met before, so we let them sniff each other and become acquainted.
It wasn’t long before the two of them started playing...
Every single time I do my grocery shopping, I seem to end up in the same checkout lane. The first time I went through, I noticed that the young man ringing me up didn’t acknowledge me— he just focused on the groceries and did his job. I have to admit; I felt irritated with his lack of acknowledgement since I’m a big believer in customer service. When it came time to...
The first time he mentioned it, we were in the middle of a pleasant conversation. We were talking about getting a gym membership and my son worked it into the conversation. “You should consider letting me have your treadmill,” he said. Then he continued, “You guys aren’t using it at all. I bet you haven’t used that thing for a couple of years. Do you think that you could get Dad...
Do you know the secret to finding success in your personal and professional life? To be honest, I don’t believe the secret can be summed up in just one sentence or thought. There’s a multitude of things that goes into you being able to accomplish your dreams. In lieu of this fact, I have compiled a few of my favorite quotes about success and why they speak to me.
“If people knew...
My husband insists on putting the thermostat down as low as possible in the summer AND the winter. In the summer, he wants the rooms as chilly as possible and in the winter, he’s comfortable in a cool room. I’m the polar opposite of him. In the winter, I’m constantly freezing and want the heat up as high as possible. In the summer, I’m constantly freezing in air conditioning and don’t...
Have you ever heard of TRX exercise training? If you haven’t, let me try to explain what it’s all about. It’s suspension training that uses your own bodyweight to perform hundreds of exercises. At times you use your arms to pull up and out, and at other times, you use your legs. Let me tell you— after one class, every muscle in your body is exhausted. This is actually what I...
