Busy Bee

June has been very busy so far and it's not going to get any less so.  I remember what I was told about 10 years ago at the UNK Gold Torch Mentoring Weekend, "you can have it all but not all at once."  Seems like as the health comes and goes, so does the intimacy in a marriage/friendship, and the financial security/stability provided by a job/career. At least for one moment you may have it all. The Gold Torch society's motto is  “To be born a girl is a gift we were given. To become a woman of wisdom and courage is a gift we give the world.”  This picture reminds me of our family's strength in numbers and how we support each other in large and small ways.

As I make progress towards wrapping up here at UCR and get prepared to head into full-time teaching, I am reflecting on great mentors I've had over the years and the wonderful people who I have had the privilege to mentor along the way.  I have a quote running through my head and I hope I can find it.  Meanwhile a few gems from the archives:

 "Do you know why they call it 'PMS'? Because 'Mad Cow Disease' was taken."
--Unknown, presumed deceased

"It's not normal for a woman to read! Soon she starts getting *ideas*, and *thinking*..."
-- Gaston, Beauty & the Beast, Disney

"Whatever women must do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good."
--Charlotte Whitton

"Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels."
--Linda Ellerbee

"God gave women intuition and femininity.
Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met."
--Farrah Fawcett

"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed.
If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.'
They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.' "
--Clare Boothe Luce