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Is Reinvention A Girl Thing?

I keep wondering whether this whole concept of reinventing our lives is something women are more predisposed to than men. Yes, men change. Yes, I know men who have tossed the corporate hat aside for entrepreneurship. But it seems to me that with men it is more of an evolution as opposed to complete reinvention. […]

I am a Crazy Deranged Fool too!!

This arrived in my email this morning. It says it all. I am a crazy deranged fool. That is how I have been feeling lately. Crazy. Deranged. Foolish. Making myself bad for it. That is until I got this cartoon and the accompany prose. Then I remembered why I feel this way and how happy […]

Quit The Job. Move To Italy

Perhaps you’ve had this dream. Of packing it all up. Quitting the job. Selling the house. Moving someplace far, far away. Halfway To Each Other is a story of a couple who did just that. The author, Susan Pohlman and her husband decided on a whim while vacationing in Italy to leave LA. Maybe not […]

The Glambertinas

If you’re wondering what The Glambertinas are it’s not the name of a new martini or a new automobile. It’s the name given to the group of women who have a thing for Adam Lambert. Some might call it an obsession. They call it a passion. I admit to not watching American Idol. I admit […]

The Girls From Poyda B

I’m old enough to remember when co-ed dorms were considered controversial. There was only one at Rider College when I attended. Poyda was on the far end of campus on the other side of the Lake and past the Fraternity houses. As far away from the mainstream of college life as they could put us. […]

This Is What Reinvention Looks Like

It looks the way change does. It’s messy.It requires determination.It’s never perfect.It means standing in the face of fear.It means taking the risk you might fail.It means knowing not taking the risk is a bigger failure.It means standing in your truth.It means being willing to compromise as long as you keep moving forward.It means believing […]