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If I were a color, I'd be Kelly green. Dewy, bright and grassy-hued.

I'd spring up when someone came to greet me...because Kelly Green just seems bouncy like that. I'd wave my arm like a blade of grass in the wind at someone across the room.

Then I'd smile big and bright like the Jolly Green Giant while they walked over to say hello.

Hi skirt! setters,

I wanted to give you some posts you can peruse while your'e enjoying your Labor Day downtime this weekend.

One thing was painfully obvious in your posts this week...It's Mercury Retrograde (thanks for reminding us Coach On The Edge). So you'll notice that a LOT of shenanigans with getting locked out of the house, or having your kid poop all over his clothes at Target were happening in the skirt! nation.

I feel bad for the people up North, in the Carolinas and Cape Cod that are more than likely going to get hit with a pretty strong hurricane this week. I only hope that the hurricane is really going to lose strength as it goes into colder water.

Hurricane Ike, courtesy of Wikipedia.

Class that is. Being middle class. It was the one thing that many of us could count on in years past. In the last ten years, it was frowned upon as mediocrity.

Something you settled for. The given. Following in the footsteps of the generation before you. Sure, it got tweaked over time (going from one income households to two, one car to two, less vacation, less money, more debt) but it was still there. Wasn't it?

I recently read Kathy Cano-Murillo's first novel, Waking Up in the Land of  Glitter. Kathy is aka Crafty Chica and has written several books on crafting and is seen regularly on HGTV and the DIY Network.

Each week I sort through the hundreds of posts to find you, the skirt! nation, the best and brightest of the past 7 days. I then sort them under one of our 8 skirt! tenets. Every week I laugh along, tear up a bit or am moved to take action or think about something I haven't. skirt! is a wonderful place where everyone's voices are heard. Keep up the incredible work skirt! sisters.

Steph

...but it does!

This Monday It will prove it.

I'm helping host and raise awareness for Jeffrey Fashion Cares 2010 which raises money for Atlanta AIDS Partnership and Susan G. Komen Atlanta.

The movie Eat Pray Love has been out for about a week now and several articles and reviews have been written about the movie and many have revisited the book. When I saw that there was going to be a movie and that one of my favorite actresses, Julia Roberts, was playing the lead role, I must admit that I became almost interested in seeing the movie.

 I am a stay at home mom with two toddlers and a husband who can work anywhere from 50-70 hours a week, not that I would ever have it any other way. I love staying home with my kids, but sometimes I feel like telling my husband he should stay at home and I'll go work a 50-70 hour week. However, things have changed, what started out as two friends just helping each other out has now turned into an at-home-job.  I had forgotten how much I enjoyed working and doing things that I was proud of.

Ok.

If you enjoy the celebrity fodder of Perez Hilton, TMZ, or US Weekly but come away feeling a little ashamed of yourself for wallowing in the mire you might want to try a new online celeb-stalking alternative called Celeb Magnet. Its claim to fame is offering non-snarky, factually accurate celebrity updates.

skirt! is all about women...their work, play, famlies, creativity, style, health and wealth, bodies and souls. But most of all skirt! is an attitude.

And that's what we all love about it right? We come together in this spot to live the skirt! life—full of opinions and thought-provokers and people who agree with us and disagree with us (and occasionally shock the hell out of us). We all miss it when we're not near it and we come back to it again and again. It's female and edgy and unique and that's what we (or definitely I) love about it.

 The Galleria is excited to host Model for a Day, Saturday, August 21 @ 2pm. Houston men and women over the age of 18 will have the opportunity to strut their stuff for a chance to model in Simon Fashion Now Presented by Cadillac in September. Contest will close at 3pm or after the first 100 contestants in line. Two winners will be chosen, one female and one male. Winners will not only walk the runway in Simon Fashion Now, they will also receive the ultimate Model for a Day package.

Have you ever seen the movie "Roxanne" with Steve Martin? It's based on the famous play Cyrano De Bergerac about a woman who falls in love with an ugly man's words that are said to her by an attractive man. One of my favorite lines in the movie that Martin's ugly guy character feeds the hunky Chris and he messes up is...

"Because I was afraid of worms, Roxanne! Worms!" 

What he was supposed to say was "I was afraid of words." If you've seen the movie, you know what I'm talking about.

It got me thinking.

Words...