Femme Fairy Godmother

Sometimes people think that giving too much thought to how we appear to the rest of the world is shallow or not worthy of attention. I disagree.
Like it or not, people do make judgments about us based on our appearance. We can accept that and try to present a good impression – or [...]

You may have noticed the lack of writing. I haven’t felt like it. I have been reading a lot and watching TV-on-DVD (Angel, Bones, Criminal Minds) and avoiding people, for the most part. No Twitter, no lunch dates with friends, none of that. Or at least not much of it.
I wish I could tell [...]

One way to be sure you’re in a situation that isn’t right for you is to find yourself acting in ways that aren’t who you are. I don’t mean the times when you stretch and try new things. I mean, when you find yourself thinking – or worse doing- things that are out of character [...]

I recently wrote to Dawg (for some reason) that “I’m a former Catholic with redneck-moonshine-running Southern roots, so I can’t say much about crazy, can I? I’m pretty sure my family wrote the book on crazy.” Add to that rather colorful mix, that I grew up In. Da. Hood. Oh, I don’t mean [...]

How do you know if you’re ready to be in a relationship? I’ll give you a clue: the answer is not “because I want one.”
Here are some clues:
You have essentially resolved your previous relationship. If you are still harboring a grudge against or holding a torch for your ex, you ain’t ready. [...]

When I had my hysterectomy, I kept my ovaries. They say it’s better for all manner of reasons but there is one drawback.
I still get PMS.
Some months, it’s not bad. This is not one of those months. I can’t really describe how it feels physically. The best analogy I can come up [...]

The FemmeFairyGodmother has a confession.
I am terrified of bats. Terrified. Not “Oh, those things are icky” but T-E-R-R-I-F-I-E-D. As in on the sofa, covered with a blanket, CANNOT move, sort of terrified.
Guess what showed up at my house tonight?
Yes. A freaking bat.
I wish I could tell you that I sucked it [...]

When I first began my career in nonprofits, after a long time of working in credit management, I worked at an organization whose mission focuses on girls. I won’t say the name but you’ve all bought cookies from them, most likely.
I was expressly forbidden to be out to any donor, to any parent, to [...]

According to Merriam-Webster’s, love is a noun first, then a verb.
I think most of us forget that love is a verb.Love is a feeling verb, for sure, according to the dictionary definition. But if you’re going to be in a successful relationship of any sort, you’d better make sure that love is an action [...]

At the beginning of summer, I was shopping for a new bag. I found one I completely fell in love with, but I didn’t buy it. It was an impractical color (meaning: it wasn’t black) and it was $90. I have looked at purses for the last 2 months and still couldn’t [...]