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Lately, I’ve been getting heaps of new students from Bhutan, a tiny country tucked between India and China. I’m completely enamoured with their jangly ankle bracelets, nose rings and habits of dissolving into laughter over just about everything. Read the rest of this entry »

You guys are all smart cookies. And I know that you know this. But sometimes we all need reminders. Reminders about what we can do and also reminders about what we don’t have to do.

If you don’t want to, you don’t have to:
* aim for the corner office
* ever own a car again
* apologize for putting yourself first
* shave your legs
* care about American Idol/Grey’s Anatomy/Lost
* feel guilty for caring about American Idol/Grey’s Anatomy/Lost
* go to the bridal shower of that co-worker you don’t really know
* get married
* have kids
* do anything other than be a fantastic wife and mother
* go out on Saturday night
* invest in real estate
* cook
* feel guilty about sleeping late
* go to grad school
* find your dream job immediately following college

* go to college

* tie your ego up in your possessions
* feel like to you need to make excuses for living a life that works for you

What have you realized you don’t have to do?

I probably don’t even need to tell you guys that Marie (of Agent Lover fame) is hilarious, adorable and awesome in every way. Because you’re probably already reading her blog and laughing over her Top Ten Inspriational Celebrity Photos or her detailed analysis of She Wolf. Girlfriend makes me laugh. In this guest post she tells us about one of her fave ladies.

There were several notable female icons that have inspired me since I was a child, sprouting from my father’s fondness for each of them. Sultry singer Peggy Lee was one, coquette cartoon Betty Boop was another, but the most prominently influential lady was the comedienne, actress and playwright known as Mae West. Mostly famous for her witty, playfully suggestive and widely recognizable one-liners, you can say Mae was the Diva of the Double Entendre or the Siren of the Sexual Innuendo. She was also constantly surrounded by muscle menz. DELISH. My kind of woman! Read the rest of this entry »