Rogue Comedian

Well. We always try to come up with a story to tell at the beginning of each GTWoman event. But lately we’ve been lamenting that we are recycling  stories. At the ripe ol’ (business) age of 14, we realized we’d become such astute businesswomen that we no longer screwed things up, thereby extinguishing our source […]

Fat Cats

My sister and I have a competition over whose cat is the fattest. It seems just right to reveal this just in time for our GTWoman Health issue. It was an accidental kind of competition. One day my sister Kerry mentioned that her cat was fat. I scoffed. Kerry’s cat, CoCo, wasn’t even on the […]

Going on a bear hunt

I planned to take the boys to a new mountain bike trail every Friday this summer. The first two Fridays were uneventful. The third one, however, involved a mother’s premonition and a couple of bears. We hit the trail at Crystal Mountain Resort. We would follow the Peak2Peak Mountain Bike race course. It swings down […]

The Beach Read

Reading. It’s the most relaxing summer pastime. Or is it? The sun The sun is finally shining. You get set up in the sun with your beach read and sit at an angle so you don’t blind yourself from the glare. You  keep your legs in the sun. It’s July. You’re probably freezing but you […]

Grown-ups

For five years we’ve hosted an end-of-school party. Several families and dozens of kids. It’s part celebration, part chaos. We try to keep the children out on the front deck and in the front yard, fueled with pop and snacks. While the covered back deck is the haven for the adults. Over the years, we’ve […]