Author Archives: Karlyn

Local Organization Aims to Empower Women for a Second Chance

togetherwebake.org

togetherwebake.org

Last Sunday, I mustered up the courage to run yet another 5k race.  It was called the “Love the Run You’re With” 5k by Pacer’s. When you registered you had to declare your status: Co-Dependent (registrant is in a relationship) Stupid Cupid (registrant is single) Love ‘em or Leave ‘em (well… it’s complicated)
Naturally, I was stupid cupid so I wore a green bib letting all the other runners know that this girl is single and ready to mingle! Except most of the men who were there sported a co-dependent or red bib, girrrl you better pump those breaks because I’m already in a relationship.
At any rate after I finished the race it was time to hydrate by cashing in my free “beverage” ticket and grabbing a banana. Goood morning to you too! Also, a friend pointed out that there was a local organization whose mission is to empower women for a second chance. I had to check it out, the homemade chocolate chip cookies they were passing out served as a great lure.
This organization is called Together We Bake: Empowering Women for a Second Chance (TWB). The idea was born in 2010 by avid runners, running coaches and marathoners Tricia and Stephanie. Based in Alexandria, VA TWB aims to empower women through a comprehensive job training and personal development program.

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Happy Galentine’s Day!

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Happy Galentine’s Day: A Day for “Ladies Celebrating Ladies.”

It’s only the best day of the year and totally worthy of the TV-turned-reality holiday. See Chrismukkah. So my friend told me about a Parks and Recreation episode where Amy Poehler’s character, Leslie, gets all of her lady friends together on Feb 13 to have a girls-only brunch. Lemme say. Best.Idea.Ever. Who doesn’t love brunch and spending time with friends? I’m always looking for excuses to gather my gal pals for a day away from their significant others. How are you celebrating this galentine’s day?

Perhaps one of these printable cards for each of your gals!? 

So cheers to you ladies for being awesome and standing strong in a world that is trying to make us all crazy mixed up! I appreciate you!


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Skipping Rope, not just for the playground anymore

This video takes skipping rope to a new place, the streets.

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A few weeks ago, I saw this music video starring young kids entitled “Tweenchronic-Skip Rope” on my Facebook timeline. Noticing that it was produced/directed by the same idiot, who worked on Rebecca Black’s “Friday” viral video, gave me no hope that this was going to be a quality sound or video. Bring on the cheese please!

What I got was far from cheesy but rather disturbing. Frankly, this video is an example in my opinion of child exploitation. Let me explain.

The video opens with two young girls, Allison and Stacey, dressed in what I would classify as trendy urban chic. They say they’re going to teach us how to skip rope. Seems harmless enough, right? Wrong. Not long after the first verse, a boy with a stick-on mustache enters the video as part of the b-roll. He’s standing on the corner with his pockets overflowing with large candy bars and bags of pixie sticks. OK this is getting realllllly inappropriate. Then, it gets worst.

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Put a Ring on Her!

Photo from DailyNews.com

Photo from DailyNews.com

Someone please give Beyonce a Super Bowl ring after her touchdown of a halftime performance last night! After a snooze-worthy first half and me spending most of the time near the snack table it was time for the halftime show!  Thank goodness. Beyonce brought out her made-for-stage alter ego appropriately named “Sasha Fierce” out to play. And girl was it an electrifying performance! So electrifying that it blew a fuse in the Super Dome. Whoopsie.
Honestly, I never have high hopes for a halftime show because most of the time I’m disappointed…wardrobe malfunctions, special effects errors, and poor vocals/audio. “Aint nobody got time for that,” especially me. But this halftime performance ladies and gents, was top notch. I thought the vocals were on point (which was live, I’m told), the special effects impressive yet not over the top, and the dancing was taken to a whole ‘nother level! The true perfectionist in Beyonce as boss woman of her own performances was very apparent. I haven’t seen hair-ography that together since well since forever.  As a trained dancer and now instructor, I can appreciate (though clearly type-casted) that Beyonce hires dancers with some shape, curvy women whose body types are identical to her own. Refreshing! Also something that many may not know is that Beyonce has an all female band. I love this. I also love that the guitarist had fire shooting out of her guitar from both ends giving Beyonce’s often strong/sultry sounds a rock flare.

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Welcome To Shattered Glass Slipper!


MasswelcomematHey there! Welcome to my new blog. Its been a long time coming but I’ve decided 2013 is the year I quit making excuses. So I’m happy that one of my new year’s resolutions is up and running for all of you to read.

A little about me and why I created this blog.  By day I’m a communications coordinator by night a dance teacher and in between a 20something woman concerned about how the media and everyday life portrays females and its affects on young girls. Why can’t girls just be girls? Probably because well…”boys will be boys.” (more on that later.) Back in college I took a youth and pop culture class and was floored by this cartoon, Winx Club, ever heard of it? Probably not. Take it from someone who had to watch episodes as research, it was terrible. But that animated cartoon staring five fairies, who saved puppies from trees in thigh high boots and plaid mini skirts and who didn’t have powers strong enough to save people from drowning, because that was for the boys to do is the reason this blog was born.

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