Imperfect Women

You Are Never Too Old For a New Career

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You are never too old for a new career. Ten tips on moving forward. If you have been following me on my "road to reinvention" you know things don't always go as planned. In my blog post, Handling A Detour On The Road To Reinvention, I share how I had planned this amazing summer of love with my husband. Instead, the last six months have been spent in and out of doctors … [Read more...]

10 Things Every Woman Needs to Open Her Own Business

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We’ve partnered with TelcoDepot.com to share this awesome information. Women have started home-based businesses at a higher rate than men over the last few years. 71% of home businesses are operated by women (versus 61% of men), according to the 2012 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Report. If you are an ambitious woman, you could take inspiration from Arianna Huffington, … [Read more...]

Back-To-School Quotes For Inspiration

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Back-to-school is definitely here! You have either already started back or like many, will be returning the day after Labor Day. This time of year can be a hard transition; going from all the freedom and excitement that summer offers you to a structured day of sometimes very mundane activities. However, we all know that school/education sets the foundation for the rest of … [Read more...]

Turning Your Passion Into a Career

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Most people don’t love what they do. They go to work every day to earn a paycheck, not because they’re passionate about the work they’re doing. According to a recent Gallup poll, 70% of Americans are not engaged in their current job. I can’t say the statistic surprised me, but I can say, it made me sad. I never wanted to be that 70%. Since I was 18 and I transferred from … [Read more...]

Easy Wardrobes for Working Women

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I have been working for over thirty years and I have noticed that many women do not know how to have a working wardrobe. There are three types of women in the work world. One group of women wears the same outfits every week over and over again that they bought as a set from the department store. The second set of women look like they are wearing the first thing that they … [Read more...]

Ever Changing Life

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As women today we find ourselves in a lot of different roles. Some of us may remember when women were only expected to play certain roles in life such as mother and housewife. Most though do not even have a recollection of those days. I lived on the fringes of these times and I have experienced both in my lifetime. I watched my own mother in those roles and I was convinced that … [Read more...]

Adding Excitement to Your Work from Home Job

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Summary: The greatest pitfall of working from home is the distraction of the home. Cleaning often becomes an excuse for working, doesn’t it? This article will give you some tools to overcome the challenges of working from home so that you can get the most out of both your work and your home! Take a tip from Google. According to spokesman Jordan Newman, Google wants to “to … [Read more...]

Memories Of A One-Room School

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  "Memory of a One-Room School" was written by Emil Schmit in 1994 and was featured in the University of Wisconsin Extension's Yarns of Yesteryear Contest.  With schools reopening across the country for this school year, we thought this post would fit right in. The door was open and I cautiously looked in - a small 6 year-old farm boy taking his first look at a schoolroom. … [Read more...]

Excelling as a Woman with Who You Are

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I was born in the latter part of the nineteen-fifties and most of my learning years were the sixties and seventies. As a young girl growing up in these years we were taught very different ideas about what a woman’s position was in this world than the girls of today or even the girls from the eighties until now. The primary objective, at least in my home, was to learn how to be … [Read more...]