Work after baby…taking a risk
We, as women, never think we can take a risk. It is always about our families, managers and that our partners are looked after, nourished and secure. We forget that we must fill our vessels. Let’s be honest, it is…
Breast cancer from diagnosis and beyond
Breast cancer. We hear about it, see campaigns for awareness and prevention and know someone who knows someone who had it. We never think it can be our reality. As some of you read in a previous blog of mine…
Beauty is only skin deep
This is not a blog about how heavy I am and how badly I want to lose weight. This is not a blog about how I wish my boobs were higher, my ass were smaller, my thighs were slimmer or…
ANOTHER CHAPTER IN MY LIFE STORY
Now that we are in the month of May and I look back on what a whacky time April was for me, it is almost hard to believe so much can transpire in 30 days. My wedding anniversary is March…
From Comfort to Risk
We, as women, never think we can take a risk. It is always about our families, managers and that our partners are looked after, nourished and secure. We forget that we must fill our vessels. Let’s be honest, it is…
When the Going Gets TOUGH
2015 is only half over and yet it has been a rather trying period for me (as was most of 2014), both personally and professionally. Although many people would actually not have a clue the extent to which my resilience…
Ode to Marriage
It has been coming up a lot recently that most marriages will not only likely end in divorce (as I have seen often) but that many people are not even interested in the commitment entirely. I was not always of…
The Quest Toward a Cure
The Quest Toward a Cure – please follow my JOURNEY… As many people have seen this logo in stores, on pamphlets and as a HUGE billboard on the JGH building – it has become an annual event at the…
Becoming an Entrepreneur, the how and why?
Entrepreneurship was not what I originally had in mind when I thought about what I needed to do to make my work/life balance come to fruition. My purpose was to find something I could do that would allow me the…
A LOVE LETTER TO MY DAUGHTER WITH A FEW LIFE LESSONS ADDED IN
Many years ago I was told by someone whom I admired and cared about very much told me, “Only the strongest women birth daughters”! From that moment on, I thought about the intense pressure it would be to raise…
Journey from Hate to Freedom
Margarete (Gretel) Marcus – her story is one which needs to be told often and by many, lest we forget. Gretel was my Oma (German for grandmother), she always asked me to write a book about her life, but for…