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Sometimes you have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down. In the new forty that is what I am doing – building my wings.

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Is more than a handful a waste?

May 24, 2010 Ms. C5 Comments

I posted the following quotation from Margaret Mead on my Facebook page today and I wanted to share it here as well: “I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.” I feel that today - my female fierceness.  I think I am blossoming more and more with each step [...]

Posted in UncategorizedTagged confidence, fierceness, relationships, strong women

Sex in the City – Fargo Style

May 23, 2010 Ms. C5 Comments

I have to tell you folks...I get emails and lots of face-to-face comments about some of my blog posts (in addition to the folks that bravely post comments).  Typically, if the post talks about anything deemed even remotely risque it quickly becomes a topic of conversation with others as I travel about my life.  I [...]

Posted in UncategorizedTagged diversity, Humor, sex, sex in the city, sexuality

The liberation of Ms. C…

May 22, 2010 Ms. C6 Comments

The New Forty blog is the realization of a promise I made to myself upon my entry into the new forty.  Now with only six weeks left in year one of the new forty, I have to confess that I am surprised as anyone that I fulfilled my promise to self to write a little [...]

Posted in UncategorizedTagged enjoying life, fun, liberation, mischievousness, ms c, self-exploration

Fargo Marathon – major props!

May 21, 2010 Ms. CLeave a comment

Today I want to give props to all the folks locally and from across the country who are participating in the Fargo Marathon events of today and tomorrow.  I am not a runner, but I appreciate the commitment that is involved in preparing for and participating in this event. So major props go out to [...]

Posted in UncategorizedTagged fargo, Fargo Marathon, runners

Mojo missing – reward offered.

May 20, 2010 Ms. C2 Comments

At some point over the past few days I lost whatever work mojo I had left.  I suspected that I was going to be completely sans mojo soon after I got past getting my grades entered - I had heard the forecast for the rest of the week and the words sun and nice were [...]

Posted in UncategorizedTagged austin powers, Humor, mojo

I can hear it now…”OMG Ethel! What have you done??!!”

May 19, 2010 Ms. C3 Comments

Tam & I in Florida in 2003 Today is my friend Tam's birthday.  I cannot tell you which year this is for her lest she kill me, but suffice to say she is close to a couple of decades younger than me.  In the great pairings of mischief making women in the world - Tam [...]

Posted in UncategorizedTagged birthday, friendship, Humor, lucy and ethel, tam

A proponent of warning labels…

May 18, 2010 Ms. C5 Comments

Something set me off kilter yesterday - actually someone - and that had a downhill spiral effect on my mood for the rest of the day.  So the person who set me off kilter created a pay-it-forward movement wherein I shared my downwarding spiral mood with the rest of my world which then undoubtedly rippled [...]

Posted in UncategorizedTagged Attitude, Humor, warning labels

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