Know What You’re Worth
Tired of the wage gap? I am. Women make seventy-seven cents for every dollar earned by a man who has similar experience, skills and education. Yes the organizational systems, paradigms and culture need to change in order for parity to be achieved, but more and more the conversation also includes …
Read MoreGet Your Growl On
I do triathlons with a friend that growls when she swims. With every stroke she takes in the water, she puts so much into it, she makes this noise – like a bear that is fierce and focused, low and guttural. You can almost feel the water vibrate around her. …
Read MoreGood Rules
I swear I’d never thought I’d put those two words (Good and Rules) together, let alone write them. Together they create a bit of an oxymoron. For anyone who knows me, rules are not something I put a lot of stock in. To me, they are meant to be questioned, …
Read MoreStupid Rules
My face hurts. It’s because of laughing. About balance. Last night one of my women’s circles gathered around that very topic and we howled (and cried) as we teased apart this thing they call Balance (and for the record, by the end of the night, most of us ditched that …
Read MoreEviction Notice
What if Fear, Guilt, Angst and Doubt were sent packing? By you. After all, they’re tenants in your house, are they not? Haven’t you been saying how tired you are of them blasting their heavy metal music all hours of the night, leaving their dirty dishes in the sink, the …
Read MoreHip Hip Hurray!
I have hips. If I sound shocked it’s because I’d forgotten (again). But this morning after taking my first Zumba! class, I marvelled at how foreign the sensation was to move my hips as they were meant to move – from side to side. I’ve had this experience before, forgetting …
Read MoreThe Flip Side of Anger
I’m quite confident I’m going to kick the hornet’s nest on this one, but let’s get it out there and see what happens, shall we? I think anger gets a bad rap these days. It’s not surprising that this emotion is feared, denied, repressed and shushed. After all, “anger” has …
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Just Like She Said
I thought it was all my imagination – that feeling that we are on a cusp of huge change or are approaching a tipping point as a society. But it seems I’m not alone. At least there are thirteen grandmothers out there that would be nodding their heads in agreement …
Read MoreDitch the Soggy Bread
I hear it again and again from women I work with… “I make a comment or suggest an idea and nothing happens. Then a man suggests the same idea five minutes later and everyone says, ‘good idea!” We could go down a road of looking how society diminishes or makes …
Read MoreNow You See Her, Now You Don’t
I’m not too keen on what we do to older women in this society. It seems we have become quite adept at making them invisible and that bothers me deeply, partly because I will eventually be an older woman myself and also because I have this nagging sense that I’ve …
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