Make Someone’s Day
On my morning run yesterday, I passed Chicago’s Anti-Cruelty Society. I happened to be wearing my pink baseball hat with a black lab on it (which marked me as either a totally cheesy and...
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The Sex and The City Effect
After a 3 month stint in the far west suburbs, I’m all moved back into my fabulous Chicago apartment. The views from my apartment are awesome, my commute to work is about 10 minutes...
16 Little Ways to be a Healthy Career Girl
I am no health expert, but I know all these summer BBQ’s I’ve been attending lately are making me feel a little nervous about bikini season. Therefore I’m on a personal mission to try...
30 Things We’ve Learned Since Graduating College
So this post started on Twitter. I sent out a tweet asking what people had learned since college and got a HUGE immediate response. Check out my Twitter followers’ responses and a few of...
Why is Online Dating Still a Taboo??
It’s 2009. We are all on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. We find our apartments online, our jobs online, and we shop online. We order food online, we keep in touch with friends and family who...
Why I love (and what we can learn) from Bitter is The New Black
I just finished reading Jen Lancaster’s first book, Bitter is The New Black, today. I’m not sure WHY it took me so long to start reading this masterpiece, but the good news is that it didn’t take...
Blogging Requires Balls
I’m writing this post at 4.30 in the morning. I couldn’t sleep and decided to check my Blackberry only to find one of my more personal and emotionally driven posts (I swore I wouldn’t...
Why I think Entrepreneurship is a way of giving back.
Let’s be real. When you think about a successful entrepreneur you instantly imagine someone like Donald Trump or maybe even Paris Hilton: eccentric, self-centered and obsessed with luxury. Over the past few years, many...
The Real Cost of Crappy Clothes
As featured on womenco.com! Girls: Tell me the truth. What do you do Friday after work when you know you have a jam packed weekend ahead? What do you do after a recent breakup...
Have you been burned by social media? Get featured in a national women’s magazine!
Hey Girls, Featured “Career Girl” and amazing freelance writer Jessica Girdwain is looking to talk to people who have been burned because of something they posted on a social networking site like Facebook, Twitter,...