Anything about everything
Bye Bye 2007
It’s that time of the year, when you look back to what has been done and look forward to what you hope is coming. All considered, it has been a good year, even if there were a few unpleasant surprises along the way.
I did not expect to lose my job, for example, but when one [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )All I want for Christmas
A couple of days ago, I received an e-mail inviting me to use a new website that happens to be a Christmas Gift Finder.
I guess we are all the same at this time of the year: not knowing what to offer, and not really knowing what to answer when asked what we would like to [...]
Grabbing onto things
I just finished decluttering my wardrobe. This is something I don’t do often, but these last weeks, I was upset by the fact that finding the pieces I was looking for, was taking me way too much time. So I decided that was something I would do during my holidays, hence my project for this [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Blogging yourself out of debt
According to Anya Kamenetz, author of Generation Debt, twenty-somehtings are now the most indebted generation in Modern History.
College studies cost a lot, and when you enter the workforce, you are already in debt, sometimes for hundreds of thousands dollars. Credit cards are given to practically anyone, social pressure can make young adults take bad money [...]
Women rules
« So, now you work for a company managed by a women » – that’s how a supplier I was meeting for the first time after starting my new job, initiated the conversation.
My first thought was « so what? ». My previous job was at a small business owned by a woman, and the job before that within a [...]
Precarious love
My friends would think I am to feminist to say that out loud, but it is true: sometimes I wish I was born 50 years earlier because that would have made my love life easier. I would probably have had less choice and options about my life than I have now, but I wouldn’t have [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Segolene, Hillary, Angela, and me
As far as I can remember, I have always voted for women. As it is a legal obligation for every party to have 50% of women on their lists -and although I do not necessarily agree with that ‘positive iscrimination’- finding one that shares my values and looks competent has never been too hard. And [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )To know or not to know
The French are voting today to elect a new President. They have a particular system, as unless a candidate gets more than 50% of the votes today (which is very unlikely to happen considering there are 12 candidates), there will be a second round in 2 weeks to make a choice between the 2 candidates [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )My life as a fat girl
French Marie-Claire magazine publishes an article in which the journalist describes how it feels to live a as a fat person, after having gained 20 pounds and reached… 145 lbs!
She describes the way it becomes harder to climb the stairs, the way her boyfriend tells her he’s going to leave her if she keeps on [...]
Be a man: shut up!
Meghalaya is a state in the North-East of India, where power has been owned by women for the last 1.200 years. The way things have always worked in our Eastern countries is totally inverted in that country.
First of all, women gather and discuss the communitiy issues, and make their decisions. They actually have the power [...]
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