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Lessons from a Stripper, Classic Bubbly

If you ever have a chance to take a stripper class I highly recommend it. Especially if you are in Vegas, and especially if you are a woman. You’ll get a lot out of it. The one I took a few years ago was practically equivalent to an MBA. Check out this post from the archives to find out the top 10 lessons I learned from a stripper.

Click here to read After the Bubbly Classic, Top 10 Business Lessons I Learned from a Stripper

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My Latest Writing Obsession

Many of you know I’ve been taking writing and writing career classes from Christina Katz for a while, where a while is counted in years. Her latest offering is pretty damn fun. It’s very simple, very affordable, and very effective. The class is called 21 Moments. The idea is to write a single moment as best you can, once a day for twenty-one days. Christina sends you a message each day with an inspiring piece of great writing that depicts a single moment. This process has changed the way I th...

Green Smoothie: Inexpensive, Practical, Tasty

I have been drinking green smoothies for over a year now. My friends are sick of hearing about it. People have started asking for the recipe, which means they’re either interested, or they hope this will shut me up once and for all. Whatever their intentions, I believe in the power of the green smoothie! And I don’t think it has to be expensive or taste like grass. This recipe is so good even kids will drink it. (Okay, one of my kids will drink it, but it’s a start.) That’s because this green...

How Short Is Too Short for Shorts?

I recently took my 12-year-old daughter to a local sporting goods store to buy shorts she could wear to volleyball practice. What I found would make a Hooters girl blush.

Call me old-fashioned, but a girl’s gym shorts ought to be longer than her underwear. They ought not require a bikini wax. And this was not at the too-cool-for-your-mother mall store. We found these in the aisles of the athletic store.

Title IX was supposed to instill confidence and determination and in our girls. How exactly...

The Week in Bubbles

This has been a fun week! It started rainy at the dentist and ended speaking to a fun group of women, and then meeting Paula Deen y’all! In a amidst the buzz and bubbles, I found some time to post. In case you missed it, catching you up:

Shared photo organization tips from Amanda LeBlanc (did not follow them)
Pondered the nature of Time, Stuff, and Simplicity
Push-up Bras Are a Girl’s Best Friend , no lie
Two decades too late, I’m finally a Teen Mom
Sparked a lot of conversation about short shorts ...

I’m Officially a Teen Mom

Okay, not that kind of teen mom. But I am officially the mother of a teenager. This milestone was not marked by a birthday, but by words. As we sat side by side on the sectional, while discussing a particular upcoming high school social event, my son uttered the timeless if cliched:

“But, Mom, everybody else is going.”

I know. Right?

“Everybody else’s mom already said yes.”

Could this really be happening? The infamous approval-by-triangulation strategy?

Proof perfect that the swaddled boy I brough...

Push Up Bras Are a Girl’s Best Friend

Obsessed with breasts, my own, it would seem. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Not that I’m especially proud of that. There so many things I just didn’t get when I was younger and tauter. Maybe that’s a good thing. Here’s a popular post from 2010 about my discovery of the power of a push-up bra.

Click here to read After the Bubbly classic, Never Underestimate the Power of a Push-Up Bra

A version of this post appears in Who Peed on My Yoga Mat?so if you like it and you have not read th...

Time, Stuff, and Simplicity

I wrote last week about slowing down.I think what I meant, more than slowing the pace, was clearing some space–in my schedule and in my head, but also in physical places.

In January I cleaned out the coat closet.The order was temporarily disrupted, but here we are in April and it is still fairly serene in there. Every time I open the door I get a little jolt of happiness. It’s crazy. It really is. And I wouldn’t have believed it if I weren’t living it. How pathetic do you have to be to derive...

Do You Suffer Image Overload?

Between our phones, cameras andvideo recorders, most of us havemore images than we can handle. But few are special enough to be displayed, or even printed.

Amanda LeBlanc is a professional organizer, founder ofThe Amandas, and star of the Style network show of the same name. “Organizing family photos is a huge project,” she says, and suggests looking at photo organization as a long-term, ongoing project rather than trying to do it all at once.

“Start with the present and work your way backward,...

The Making of a Book Proposal

In a quiet corner, enjoying the writing life on one of my better days…

ME: Ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod ohmigod I have the BEST idea! The best! Did you hear me?

ME: Uh huh. That’s great.

ME: Seriously.This is big, big I tell you. This is the one. Six figure advance right here.And not only that, this book is going to CHANGE LIVES. I’m not even kidding. You know what?

ME: What.

ME: I shouldn’t even say this, but I WOKE UP with this idea. It’s like one of those crazy stories that those annoying authors te...