Silence Is Golden
Silence is golden. I hear that phrase a lot. Usually from other people who say it in a very biting tone of voice. Maybe it’s because I am a drummer and I’m always making noise that tends to annoy other people. But even when I stop playing drums and shut off my stereo (which takes extreme willpower for me to actually power it down) and try to be “quiet”, everything still seems pretty loud. My external world may have dropped to zero decibels, but my brain is still cranked to the max and all I hear are a bunch of screaming voices getting louder and louder as they compete for my attention.
Mulan (Movie)
Solid entertainment from a new group of Disney animators. The story source is a Chinese fable about a young girl who disguises herself as a man to help her family and her country. When the Huns attack China, a call to arms goes out to every village, and Mulan’s father, being the only man in the family, accepts the call. Mulan (voiced by Ming-Na Wen, sung by Lea Salonga) has just made a disastrous appearance at the Matchmaker and decides to challenge society’s expectations (being a bride). She steals her father’s conscription notice, cuts her hair, and impersonates a man to join the army. She goes to boot camp, learning to fit in with the other soldiers with some help from her sidekick, Mushu, a wise-cracking dragon (voiced by Eddie Murphy). She trains, and soon faces the Huns eye-to-eye to protect her Emperor.
Owens, Ginny (Singer/Songwriter)
Ginny Owens is a Contemporary Christian music singer/songwriter. She was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and has been totally blind since the age of two. When she graduated from Belmont University with a degree in Music Education, she found that most people were skeptical about hiring a blind music teacher. Instead she concentrated in singing and songwriting and began making CDs, and has been producing them since 1999 with Rocketown Records, a label under Michael W. Smith. Her music has been featured on television shows, such as Roswell and Felicity. Ginny has also received three Dove awards, including New Artist of the Year.
Tillis, Pam (Singer/Songwriter)
Pam Tillis (born July 24, 1957 in Plant City, Florida) is an American country music singer and actress.
The Early Years: 1957 – 1983
The daughter of singer Mel Tillis, she grew up in Nashville, TN surrounded by music. At age eight, she sang on the Grand Ole Opry.Tillis got her musical start out in Los Angeles, releasing a pop single in 1981 for Elektra Records, “Every Home Should Have One”, that failed to chart. The single, along with its flip side, “Holding On To What Is Gone”, have never been reissued.
Mi Vida Loca / Pam Tillis (Lyrics)
Artist: Pam Tillis
Album: Sweetheart’s Dance (1994), Greatest Hits (1997)
If you’re coming with me you need nerves of steel
‘Cause I take corners on two wheels
It’s a never-ending circus ride
The faint of heart need not apply
Mi vida loca over and over
Destiny turns on a dime
I go where the wind blows
You can’t tame a wild rose
Welcome to my crazy life Read more
In My Daughter’s Eyes / Martina McBride (Lyrics)
Artist: Martina McBride
Album: Martina (2003)
In my daughter’s eyes I am a hero
I am strong and wise and I know no fear
But the truth is plain to see
She was sent to rescue me
I see who I wanna be
In my daughter’s eyes
The Artist
The “Artist” design is dedicated to one of my best friends, Katrina aka “Trina” and known to my kids as “Cinder-trina.” Trina wanted me to create a Girls Can’t WHAT? “artist” design and ironically, she is the one with the graphic arts degree and I am not. Go figure.
Is There A Doctor In the House?
Yes! There is a doctor in the house. The Girls Can’t WHAT? Doctor design was released today. She is seen here with a few of her young patients. This one is dedicated to my friend Brianna who started her first year of college this week. Brianna is planning to major in medicine and has been asking for this design for several months. So here she is, Brianna! Let me know what ya think… Read more
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer (Book)
Lynne Cox, one of the world’s leading long-distance swimmers, has been a risk-taker ever since she was nine and chose the freezing water of a New Hampshire pool in a storm over getting out and doing calisthenics. After her family moved to California so she and her siblings could train as speed swimmers, she discovered long-distance ocean swimming. Her first open-water event, a team race across the Catalina Channel, convinced her to train for the English Channel. Read more
Cox, Lynne (Swimmer)
Lynne Cox (born 1957) is an American long-distance open-water swimmer and writer. In 1971 she completed the first crossing of the Catalina Island Channel, in California, and twice held the record for the fastest crossing (men or women) of the English Channel (1972 and 1973). In 1975, Cox became the first woman to swim the 10°C (50°F), 16 km (10 mi) Cook Strait in New Zealand. In 1976, she was the first person to swim the Straits of Magellan in Chile, the first to swim across the Skagerrak, and the first to swim around the Cape Point in South Africa, where she had to contend with the risk of meeting sharks, jellyfish, and sea snakes.
Curie, Irene (Chemist)
Irène Joliot-Curie née Curie (September 12, 1897 – March 17, 1956) was a French-Polish scientist, the daughter of Marie Skłodowska and Pierre Curie and the wife of Frédéric Joliot-Curie.She was born in Paris, France.
She studied at the Collège Sévigné from 1912 to 1914, where she obtained her Baccalaureat, and at the Faculty of Science at the Sorbonne, but her education was interrupted by World War I during which she served as a nurse radiographer. After the War, she earned her doctorate in science, doing her thesis on the alpha rays of polonium.In 1926 she married Frédéric Joliot (the couple both hyphenated their surnames) and collaborated with him on studying atoms. In 1935 they shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 1938 her research on the action of neutrons on the heavy elements, was an important step in the discovery of nuclear fission. She became Professor in the Faculty of Science in Paris in 1937, and in 1946 the Director of the Radium Institute.
Marie Curie (Scientist)
Marie Curie (Polish Maria Skłodowska-Curie, November 7, 1867 – July 4, 1934) was a Polish-French physicist and chemist. She was a pioneer in the early field of radiology, later becoming the first two-time Nobel laureate and the only person with Nobel Prizes in two different fields of science (physics and chemistry - due to the effects of sharing, she effectively obtained 1.25 Nobel Prizes). She also became the first woman appointed to teach at the Sorbonne. She was born a Pole in Warsaw, and spent her early years there, but in 1891 at age 24, moved to France to study science in Paris. She obtained all her higher degrees and conducted her scientific career there, and became a naturalized French citizen. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and in Warsaw. Read more
You SHOULD Be A Sore Loser!
This entry may spark a little controversy but I have never claimed to be politically correct. This is my blog so I can say what I think. You can take it or leave it and your feedback is always appreciated even if you just want to tell me that I am wrong.
About a week ago, I went out to eat with a few friends of mine. We call this “girls night out” and we spend the majority of the time just cracking each other up. I don’t even know what we were discussing when on a whim, Trina and I decided to have an arm-wrestling contest right there on the dinner table. I don’t even remember who challenged who, but knowing me and my big mouth…well…it was probably my idea.
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Diva Racing (BMX Bike Racers)
Diva Racing is an all girl BMX race team that was started in 2004 as a way to get girls into the sport of BMX and to bring to light that girls could compete in a sport that is currently dominated by males. The team consist of 6-8 riders ranging in age from 5 years old to 16 years old who come from various parts of the United States. They travel across the nation competing fiercely in their respective classes to win various titles. The girls raise all the money for their expenses through various fundraisers. The teams has some sponsors that help with discounts on product, but girls do not get the sponsorships that the males get.
North Country (Movie)
A sterling cast and vivid direction give North Country an emotional heft to match its political convictions. Charlize Theron (Monster) plays Josey Aimes, who goes to work at a Minnesota steel mine after splitting with her violent husband. But the job proves to be almost as harrowing as her marriage; the male miners, resentful of women taking jobs, verbally abuse and play humiliating pranks on the female miners. Read more
Susan B. Anthony (Women’s Rights Activist)
Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent, independent and well-educated American civil rights leader, who, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led the effort to secure women’s suffrage in the United States.Anthony was born and raised in Adams, Massachusetts, the daughter of Quakers. Susan B. Anthony was the second born of eight children in a strict Quaker family. Susan was a precocious child and she learned to read and write at the age of three. Her father, Daniel Anthony, was a stern man, a Quaker Abolitionist and a cotton manufacturer. He believed in guiding his children instead of directing them. He did not allow them to experience the childish amusements of toys, games, and music, which were seen as distractions from the “Inner Light”. Instead, he enforced self-discipline, principled convictions, and belief in one’s own self-worth. Read more
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
The prejudice against color, of which we hear so much, is no stronger than that against sex. It is produced by the same cause, and manifested very much in the same way.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (Author/Women’s Rights Activist)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was a social activist, and a leading figure of the early women’s rights movement in the United States. With her husband, Henry Stanton and cousin, Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was also active in the anti-slavery Abolitionist movement. Stanton had a strong friendship with abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. Read more
Whitman, Meg (President of eBay)
Margaret C. Whitman, (born August 4, 1956) has been the President and CEO of the online marketplace eBay since March 1998. She joined eBay when the company had 30 employees and operated solely in the United States; eBay is now a global organization with over 9,000 employees. In addition to managing eBay, she currently serves on the Board of Directors of Procter & Gamble and Dreamworks SKG.She grew up in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. After high school she attended Princeton University, where she earned a degree in economics in 1977. She completed her education with an MBA from Harvard Business School.
The Woman and the Genie in the Bottle (Humor)
A woman was walking along the beach when she stumbled upon a bottle. She picked it up and rubbed it, and lo-and-behold a Genie appeared.
The amazed woman asked if she got three wishes. The Genie said, “Nope, sorry three-wish genies are a story-tale myth. I’m a one-wish genie. So…what’ll it be?”
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Not For Ourselves Alone (Documentary)
Feminism is a problematic word: to some it means the ongoing struggle for the equal rights of women; for others the connotations are derogatory, the word conjuring images of emasculating woman. And for still others, mostly the younger generation who grew up with mothers in the workforce, the term is outdated, referring to a movement whose relevance is diminishing. Postfeminism, antifeminism, the feminist backlash–these terms are wielded with little understanding of the context in which the feminist movement was born. Luckily, Ken Burns and Paul Barnes have created this superb documentary, Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, to remind us of the roots of the women’s movement and to show just how far we have come in such a short period of time. Read more
Look Who Just Rode In!
This is another design by request. After several appeals for a “biker chick,” I finally buckled down and finished her. She is dressed in faded jeans and a black T-shirt with the traditional Girls Can’t WHAT? star emblem on her chest. Perched on a custom purple Harley fat-boy, complete with leather saddle bag, she is ready to ride! Click on read more to see additional images.
Winners Never Quit! / Mia Hamm (Book)
Author: Mia Hamm
Published: May 2006
From School Library Journal
PreSchool-Grade 2 Mia’s favorite sport is soccer but she hates losing. In fact, she dislikes it so much that she quits in the middle of a game. Upset about her attitude, her siblings do not let her participate the next day. Mia learns quickly that there will be times when she will score a goal and those when she will not, but playing the game is the most fun of all. Bright, energetic cartoons depict the child’s ups and downs. Attractive endpapers contain colorful sketches of the girl progressing from birth (showing a soccer ball given as a baby gift) through stretching activities, trials of not scoring, and the final celebration of the sport. The text represents the mixed feelings of all athletes learning the game. Parents or coaches wanting a story about the joy of playing soccer without emphasizing winning or losing will find an appropriate read-aloud here. Blair Christolon, Prince William Public Library System, Manassas, VA
Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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