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My Beef With Religious Views of Women

I was born a female human. I can’t/don’t want to change this. I can only learn to live with it and the limitations religious views and social/cultural norms yave placed on my gender. Recently, a few conversations with friends have revolved around the second class citizenship of women and how they are viewed worldwide. This […]

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My Beef With Adulting

After a very few trying weeks, and a few more ahead, I realized that being an adult was not easy. Not only because it comes with a lot of quantifiable responsibilities but because a lot of people don’t realize that their opinions and thoughts can carry and place a crushing weight on others. We place […]

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Etiquette Love and Marriage Mrs Enginerd Wrestling Infertility

When Our Friends Had Kids Our Lives Changed Too

Never in my wildest dreams did I surmise that my friends having children would impact my life so greatly. After all, they are the ones who experienced the many sleepless nights and countless bottle and diaper changes, not us. However, the arrival of the kid changed the entire dynamic of the relationship we had with […]

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Etiquette Mrs Enginerd Nerd Stuff

…Anger Leads to Hate, and Hate Leads to Suffering

I have met many angry people throughout my career and I still can’t understand why the male humans have so many issues controlling their temper.  We teach children to use their words and to cry but at some point the men stop being children and start to bottle all their feelings in. This pent up […]

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15 Ways to Make Your Crowdfunding Campaign More Effective

You may have seen a few campaigns teach their goals fast while others stalled and lingered and wondered, why? It is very easy to fill in the form and launch the campaign but the marketing aspect can make or brake it. Here are some tips to get you on the road to success a bit […]

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Adulting Etiquette Mrs Enginerd

Unconscious Gender Bias: How To Quickly Mess Up A Conversation With a Proud Unconventional Woman

Every time I tell a man we are buying a new home with a three car garage, they ask me if my husband is excited about the extra space for his tools and toys. Grrr. You should see the smirk leave their faces after I clarify that the garage is actually for my tools and […]

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The Art of Being Direct

As part of a push to eliminate unconscious bias in the workplace, my employer has signed my organization up for diversity and inclusion courses. Because I am technically a part of the human resources team, our ability to remain neutral when confronted with race, gender and experience issues is paramount to conflict resolution and performance […]

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Etiquette Love and Marriage Mrs Enginerd

My Beef With Love

I think I know why everyone is so obsessed with finding love this days: friendship is not enough anymore. The sentiments of companionship and affection that we used to long for are being replaced with the need to belong to someone, to have a trusted ally that would never leave us, that possesses our soul […]

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10 Facebook Etiquette Rules To Live By

A lot of my peers have had some excellent questions about how to handle Facebook posts, comments and requests resulting in great pointers and conversations. Because social media can be difficult to navigate, I compiled a list of the 10 best etiquette rules to help you be successful when dealing with folks online: 1. Always […]

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My Beef With Mother’s and Father’s Day

The baby and kid market, worth billions, treats parents as their own personal ATMs, putting pressure on new parents to buy items they don’t need and pushing toys and apparel to young children so they ask for things they don’t need but covet. Companies like Target and Babys R Us spend millions of dollars profiling their […]