Modern Gurl

Modern Gurls, Ok, at the minimum, most of us modern gurls have heard of "going green" and we probably recycle at home and are all about saving our planet... but lately I've learned that that isn't enough. I'm just going to put myself out there and say that I never even thought about my "waste footprint" (amount of waste I create in a period of time) until I started reading and watching more on tv about "going green." I mean geez, I was always the one that hated when people littered in elementary school. Since so many of us have been touched by someone with cancer, which is clearly partially enviromental. We have all been affected by the gas prices, and let's face it, you can't help but hear a report every day about the North Pole melting... I just took it upon myself to learn more. I'm reading a book called "It's Easy Being Green." Here are some things that I've learned recently that have propelled me into action:...

Modern Gurls, So, we all have "friends" right? There's no one cookie-cutter model for friends. Like the old Girl Scout song says "Make new friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other's gold." Over the years I've learned lessons in friendship and learned ultimately at some point you can't take on new true friends because you just can't be everything to every body all the time. Therefore, from time to time we have to re-evaluate our friendships, and the definition of "true friend" changes as we grow. I've been thinking about this over the last month actually, especially with a key milestone birthday passing. I truly cherish girl times: running to the mall, doing lunch, brunch, traveling, talking on the phone, or just going over to their house to talk trash and drink wine, tea, soda, whatever! Women have a unique and special relationship that men can not say they have with us or each other... I mean, for goodness sake we go ...