Gosh Obama – you have been in office a whole 35 minutes. Why haven’t you fixed the economy already?
Obama can throw a kajillion dollars at this economy and it won’t fix the problem.
As Suze Orman says, “What makes you think this is about money?”
 This is a problem in people’s hearts. This is a problem with how we think about money and things. This is a fundamental problem with our relationship to money, other people, our businesses, our government.
As soon as everyone takes responsibility for their part in this and changes their thinking – the economy will miraculously improve.
It won’t go back to …read more

My computer has been down. My husband has a PC Laptop and I hate it so much I find it very difficult to work. It doesn’t work properly – not like my Mac.
Having my Mac down is simultaneously like being lost and cut-off from part of myself and liberating – like being let off my leash.
I imagine it will be the same with my iPhone – which I don’t have yet, but. . .
I find my cell phone so stupidly lame that I don’t use most of its features. I know my experience with my future iPhone will be much more attached. I know I will …read more

Today we’re going to stimulate the economy.

Car dealers are hurting, nearly bankrupt. If George Bush were still president he’d tell us to be Good Americans and go buy a car. It will help the banking, credit industry and the car industry.

Our van, our only car, died last week. DEAD. There’s no fixing it. It has 238,000 miles on it and needs a new engine, a new air conditioning system and a new electrical system.

I’ve written that having one car is not an emergency. I’ve been riding my bike around town for months. It’s fun. It’s good exercise. All that sunshine …read more

Blog Fabulous is participating in Bloggy Giveaways by giving away the very popular Fit Girl T-shirt from The Girl Revolution.
We’re tackling this pesky childhood obesity epidemic by running a Fit Girl Series (Obese Teens on Oprah & Weight = Moral Failure) and our lifestyles and how it’s effecting our kids’ health. There will be many more aspects of the issue to explore.
I want to give you a Fit Girl shirt.
The Girl Revolution (that’s me, Tracee Sioux) has been nominated to win Best Mommy Blogger from Scholastic Parent and Child Magazine. Go to Scholastic entry page and …read more

Whatever they are saying about the economy I’m not seeing the negatives.
Everywhere I look there is potential and opportunity.
There’s an Economic Women’s Revolution going on right now in the world and we’re going to see women explode onto the landscape. In large part because so much business can be done on the Internet. More and more of us are asking, Why not me? Why don’t I start that business I’ve always dreamed of?
This year, women will stop the futile wait for The Market to give us equal pay and we’ll create our own opportunity. We’ll create jobs …read more

Last year I wrote about my resolution to get organized in a post titled Anal Retentive Compulsions in 2008.

In July I saw that people were still reading that post and took another look. Then I cleaned up and organized my office – which was still a mess – and posted the transformation in Resolutions Revisited.

If, 6 months later you realize that people are going to hold you accountable it’s a good motivation not to fail. To fail is hard on the soul – to fail in public is enough to make me clean my room and get organized like I …read more

A replica of our ancestors.

I saw them in a local antique shop and I had to buy them for my parents.

They are so real looking they are like those wax dolls at Madame Tussauds. Grandpa has a pair of dentures hanging from his belt. Grandma has spectacles. The cowboy boots and hats are real, as are the clothes, bandanas and belt buckles. They came with doll stands.

I can’t explain why, but they make me happy every time I look at them.

Merry Christmas b5media and E-World. Merry Christmas.

Photo Source: Empowering Girls: So Sioux Me

Employers report they must send jobs overseas to find an educated workforce.

This is patently inaccurate.

The truth is we have all the talent we need. Women are this country’s most underused resource. We have insight, college degrees, years of experience and yet, employers would rather go to India than give us a family-friendly workplace and equal pay?

Invite the women back with tax incentives and initiatives that reward family-friendly work environments and you will see a profoundly positive shift in every sector of this nation’s personal, private and business life.

The last thing this country needs is to replace the fired and retired …read more

Last July when I went to San Francisco for Blogher’08 I stopped in a tourist shop and picked up some San Francisco Sour Dough Starter. I gave my mother a package and another to a friend.

I kept a package for myself and began following directions. It said to put the starter in a warm dark place for several hours. So, I figured the oven would be great.

My husband preheated the oven for some wings. Plastic bowl melted all in my Sour Dough Starter and my foray into fancy breadmaking was foiled.

Now, it’s probably not that complicated for Marye Audet who …read more

My friend Jen from Jlogged had this totally awesome and inspired idea.

“Let’s trade clothes!” her evite says.

If you’re keeping it, but it doesn’t fit you right – give it to someone who is likely to love it.

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So I go through my closet and drawers with this running dialogue in my head.

Love these shoes – never wear ‘em.

This jacket is great – it’s too big now.

These slacks are one size too small. Every time I look at them they make me feel I’m making no progress. It’s been a year. I’ll buy new pants when I actually get there. …read more