Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Signs of Spring: Sign #3: Right Whales in the Bay

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A right whale fluke on Cape Cod Bay as seen from a Dolphin Fleet boat yesterday by my friend Laura. Wish I was there!

Friday, April 15, 2011

Top 10 Takeaways from Enterprising Women 4/14/11



These were the top 10 gems for me from yesterday's fantastic conference:

1. Don't cry.
2. Play nice with the other girls.
3. Don't apologize.
4. Go to church.
5. Get over yourself.
6. Listen to your gut.
7. Pick good partners, in love and work.
8. Give yourself options.
9. Be brave.
10. Tell the truth.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Signs of Spring: Sign #4 My Birthday!


This year I was late for my own birthday. I'm probably too old having any business bothering with such silliness, but nonetheless, I do care. Birthdays are awesome. In fact, until I earned rights to Mother's Day, my birthday was the greatest day ever. Well, after Christmas. Christmas is always pretty good. But my birthday has always been one of my favorite signals that spring would finally be here. Yay! Happy to me!

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Sign #5 of Spring: PEEPERS!


Peepers are by far my absolute most favorite sign of spring. I don't know what it is, but the first evening I hear that chorus of tiny little screes, I just have to smile. Listen to them here.
For those of you who live west of the Mississippi, peepers are little frogs whose mating call gives them their name. They congregate by the hundreds in wetlands during their spring mating season and make that peeping sound all night long. Across the street from my house there is a pond that must be some sort of peeper Vegas. Tonight they were carrying on like frat boys in Panama. Yee haw!