Category Archives: Mighty Girlfriends’ Club

[cross-post from the Mighty Girlfriends' Club blog]

One of the biggest fears holding me back from starting the Mighty Girlfriends’ Club was the nagging voice in my head that kept questioning, “What if no one shows up?”

No one wants to be the only one at their own party.

I decided that, to check this item off my Mighty Life List, I was going to have to take a leap of faith. “Whoever shows up is exactly who was supposed to be there at the start,” I told myself. And then I promised myself not to obsess over the guest list.

That lasted until about 2:00 yesterday when I received my third cancellation phone call for the day. Continue reading →

[cross-post from the Mighty Girlfriends' Club blog]

The first gathering of the Mighty Girlfriends’ Club kicks off in a little under four hours. I have to admit that I’m nervous that I very well might be the only Girlfriend at the gathering. I’ve had phone call after phone call over the past few days from friends that have had to cancel for one reason or another.

I have told myself, since the beginning, that I’m not going to let myself obsess over who attends. The company I keep is chock-full of busy, on-the-go ladies. There are no slackers in this group which is, precisely, why I invited them all. Continue reading →

[cross-posted from The Mighty Girlfriends' Club blog]

Two extraordinary things happen to me this past year – I parasailed over the Gulf of Mexico and I karaoked on Bourbon Street.

Now, flying by parachute over the ocean or belting out bad 80′s songs to a crowd of drunken revelers – while fun, exciting and a tad scary – is seemingly no big deal to many. But, for me, these events were anything but “no big deal.” They were, in fact, life-changing. Continue reading →