A BLOG FOR BAD ASS BITCHES

Everyone knows early March to mid-April is usually when academia schedules a break from studies, the one to two week period known as spring break. Some of us have college kids come home, while others have their k-12 school age kids home during the daytime hours. Years past at our house this might mean shopping trips for Easter dresses or maybe a few local day trips. With Brian working this didn't necessarily mean an out of town vacation, at least not for an entire week anyway

What is failure? Why are we so scared of it? A quick look in Webster's tells me the transitive verb form means to abandon or forsake; to leave undone or neglect. Those seem like reasonable definitions to me. If you're reading this, you're still in the game. Nothing is totally left undone until you're on the other side of the grass. Recently, I learned Walt Disney was fired when he wrote for the Kansas City Star for "lack of imagination." Apparently, his story ideas were lacki

What in the heck does it mean to be present? I can physically be somewhere and not be present. Let me retrack that statement. I USED to be able to be somewhere and not be present. We hear presence all the time, but what does it really mean? Being present during classes in high school, or college, (I can't remember) sometimes meant exemption from nine weeks or semester tests. I may have accomplished that feat a time or two, but I assure you I was not truly present for all th

If you have to ask if you're good enough then the answer is no. DO NOT say those words out loud. You are good enough. Okay, you may be thinking that it depends on what the subject is. That doesn't matter either. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, I lived through the super-model era. Many of us have embossed on our brain what was once considered the gold standard of beauty and success. We all want to feel successful at anything and everything we choose to do. I always wanted to be

It's Friday and I'm happy. Why, you ask? I'll tell you why. It's certainly not because of my technical skills. I've probably spent the better part of the hour trying to upload a picture of my niece. My sister-in-law asked me to write a letter of Palanca for Kayla's upcoming retreat as a candidate for her upcoming confirmation. Apparently "palanca" means lever in Spanish. Being one of probably only about five college graduates worldwide who eked out a degree WITHOUT taking a