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By kvargas, Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 4 comments

Has anyone else seen the article today about the Florida pastor advocating for a rally to burn copies of the Quaran this September 11?  Now, I'm not a super religious person, and I'm not as current as I should be on news events, but, this one really got me going.  Here's the link if anyone wants to read it: news.yahoo.com/s/ap/quran_burning Is it just me, or does this seem like a borderline hate crime to anyone else?  From a pastor, no less!  Granted, burning books isn't necessarily a cr

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By skirtySteph, Tuesday, September 7, 2010, 4 comments

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

green grass

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.

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By Shoegirl1970, Sunday, September 5, 2010, 0 comments

It's a long weekend, my favorite kind! We are grilling today and the best part of the weekend? No work tomorrow! I love vacation days! It seems like we get less and less national holidays now. My sister will always ask me half joking if I have the day off when it comes to President's Day, Labor Day, and Memorial Day. She is half kidding because she knows that the newspaper never stops publishing.

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By skirtySteph, Friday, September 3, 2010, 0 comments

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.

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By skirtySteph, Thursday, September 2, 2010, 3 comments

Raspberry sauce gurgles on the stovetop. Magenta beauties picked from some fresh patch of land, melt into her silvery pan.

Pasta. Pesto. Peas. They all gladly dive into a yellow bowl to make a sage-colored delicacy. On the counter, a bright Mustard-Roasted Fish sits on an oval platter and I picture I am her swiping my pointer finger across the sauce on the plate.

I am hypnotized by Ina Garten as she works her mussel-in-white-wine magic inside her soft lit, ivory kitchen in the Hamptons. I bow down in the church of the Barefoot Contessa.

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By Shoegirl1970, Thursday, September 2, 2010, 0 comments

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, Hurricanes

Hurricane Ike, courtesy of Wikipedia.

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By kvargas, Sunday, August 29, 2010, 12 comments

It's the first day of class.  Everyone is excited to see each other again, and we're all talking about our field placements.  Regina tells Eva and me that her field placement is at the highly coveted Boys and Girls Club (the only internship that offers a stipend).  I say, "Wow, I was wondering who got that placement!

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By E B Loan, Sunday, August 29, 2010, 2 comments

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?

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By kvargas, Saturday, August 28, 2010, 9 comments
I was recently reminiscing about my grade school days, when Beverly Cleary’s books about Ramona Quimby and her family were my escape from the world.  I haven't read the Ramona series since the 5th grade, but, there were certain aspects about the trials and tribulations that she and her family experienced that have stuck with me today.   I
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By Shoegirl1970, Saturday, August 28, 2010, 0 comments

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.

Waking Up in the Land of Glitter, Kathy Cano-Murillo, Crafty Chica novel

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By Shoegirl1970, Friday, August 27, 2010, 0 comments

I saw the bridal bootie on skirt! and I went to check out Ann Roth Shoes. Oh my! I think I fell in love!

Ann Roth Monroe shoe

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By skirtySteph, Friday, August 27, 2010, 0 comments

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

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By skirtySteph, Thursday, August 26, 2010, 4 comments

Today is the 90th Anniversary of the 19th amendment and without all my historic skirt! sisters who stood up so we could have the right to vote, I may never have been able to go to the polls for the first time on November 5, 1996.

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By skirtySteph, Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 0 comments

...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.

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By Shoegirl1970, Wednesday, August 25, 2010, 0 comments

First it was the bad eggs. Eggs recalled because they may be infected with salmonella. Then there's the deli meat recall at Walmart. All I can say about that is thank goodness my local grocery store uses mostly Texas bred eggs and thank goodness I don't buy food at Walmart. Especially since eggs and deli meat are two of the few things my picky eater will eat. Do we all have one in the bunch?

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By Shoegirl1970, Sunday, August 22, 2010, 1 comment

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.

Eat, Pray, Love, the movie and the book

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By skirtySteph, Friday, August 20, 2010, 1 comment

Hi skirt! nation,

 

While you’re reading the best of skirt! this week…

If you “Like” any of the posts below, then you can officially “Like” them with our new “Like” feature that links to Facebook…like, know what I mean?

If there are any posts you “Like”d this week that I didn't mention, then feel free to put them in the comment section below so we can all be sure to check them out and “Like” them ourselves.

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By st.nessa, Friday, August 20, 2010, 0 comments

 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.

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By skirtySteph, Thursday, August 19, 2010, 3 comments

Something is missing from our lives. Something inherently female and extraordinary.

Have any of you been wondering lately...

Where did Jan Hooks go? 

jan hooks

 

Or Cheri Oteri? 

 

cheri oteri

 

Why don't we see Laurie Metcalf anywhere or Annie Potts?

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By kvargas, Thursday, August 19, 2010, 11 comments

Ok.

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By Shoegirl1970, Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 2 comments

This summer my husband and I decided that it would be a good idea if he stayed home with the children. It was the first time we had ever tried this in their nine and six years of life. It was good for the children and it just made more economic sense.

annetaintor.com

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By Ellen F. Brown, Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 0 comments

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.

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By skirtySteph, Tuesday, August 17, 2010, 11 comments

Should we be outraged as women that there are 8-year-olds waxing their bikini lines?

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By skirtySteph, Friday, August 13, 2010, 2 comments

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.

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By Shoegirl1970, Friday, August 13, 2010, 1 comment

I have been up to a lot. Here is the link to my essay that was published on this really cool Latin website, Sopalatina.net. Check it out. It's all about my parents and our love of reading.

annetaintor.com

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By dgilbert1981, Thursday, August 12, 2010, 0 comments

 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.

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By dgilbert1981, Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 0 comments

 YMCA kicks off Back-To-School Drive. Help students start the school year right by donating backpacks and school supplies. All donations can be dropped off at any YMCA center or participating churches. The campaign runs through August 15. For more information please visit www.ymcaoperationbackpack.org

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By skirtySteph, Wednesday, August 11, 2010, 2 comments

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...

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By kvargas, Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 5 comments
When J and I broke up after a two year engagement, my best friend D’s first response was, “That’s so wonderful!!!” --Um, not exactly the response I was originally looking for from her. Immediately starting to feel annoyed at her seeming lack of compassion, she continued with “All of that time and energy that you wasted on a sinking relationship with J can now be put to good use.” O.k, I’m listening, I thought. Feeling at that time like my entire world as I knew it had collapsed, pondering the question What am I going
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By Shoegirl1970, Monday, August 9, 2010, 5 comments

Today has been a day that has reminded me of how quickly my daughter is growing up and how school is starting in only a couple of weeks and she's starting fourth grade.  I have to finish "the talk" with her before she goes back to school.

 
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