A hot dog to help you remember: Memorial Day 2012
I asked my 18-year old brother what he thinks of when I say, “Memorial Day.” He answered, “Monday off.” My brother is a senior in high school, and the summer before his first year of college can’t come soon enough. For him, at least in the moment immediately following my unexpected question, a holiday which [...]
Kiss and Do Tell
The past two articles posted on Go Girl have been about identity as both a feminist and a religious person. Erica’s post on Friday discussed her identity as a Catholic feminist; Emily wrote earlier today about being a Mormon feminist. As a Catholic feminist myself, I understand the conflict of these two identities. Quite generally, [...]
Married to the Military
Most of the past three years of my life has been devoted to asserting that Marine Corps partners can, in fact, be independent, career-oriented individuals (and when I say “career-oriented”, I, in fact, mean oriented in their OWN career). As a proud USMC girlfriend, I suffered the losses and celebrated the achievements of our service [...]
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‘Let’s See how far we’ve come’…Happy Birthday Go Girl!
Milestones can represent many different meanings, emotions, memories and so on. A birthday milestone can be both exciting and scary — depending on what age you are turning! Go Girl’s first birthday is a very exciting milestone birthday. Looking back to a year ago when Go Girl bloggers were just emerging from all corners of [...]
Being a Stay Girl, Part 2
In February I wrote an article about being a Stay Girl, or rather, a woman with a Go Girl mentality who is, for one reason or another, in one location for a period of time. Perhaps it is her job to stay put while someone else is out experiencing an adventure. In my case, I [...]
Health Care Quandry
Being an international GoGirl is pretty spectacular. Unfortunately, one of its major downsides is the question of what to do when you’re injured or sick while on the run. Equally unfortunately, the answer depends on your location, citizenship, immigration status, and financial power. Let me give you a very recent example of what I mean [...]
Never Fear Firsts
My new ski instructor, Mark, watches me for a moment. I’ve been practicing my new moves (these consist of walking forward, standing still without sliding down a hill and sometimes- just sometimes- gliding from one side of the bunny slope to the other). I’m skiing down the hill — aka, the “Magic Carpet” — with five [...]
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Being a Stay-Girl
I have lots of experience with being a Go Girl. In fact, this internet magazine is now nearly five months old (celebrate!) and going strong. I am thankful to our thoughtful writers and our enthusiastic readers. Together we have built a wonderful community that I am so proud to be a part of. Yet what [...]
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Sempre Fixe
By Beth Greetings are important in São Tomé. You cannot enter a room without greeting every single person in it, whether it’s a handshake, a kiss, a hello, whatever. Sometimes to save time from having to go and kiss someone you give them a thumbs up. Thumbs up means, “Tudo fixe?” (“fixe” rhymes with “leash”, [...]
Lernen aus der Ferne
5 November 2009 Dear Diary, It’s a pause-time in my paperwork process for the impending move. There’s not a whole lot I can do right now- licensure paperwork won’t be available to me until January, the cat can’t get her final checkup until February, and I won’t be able to job-hunt until closer to March- [...]
