Perhaps you think the real women in our catalog are super women, perhaps you think their lives are unattainable or even made up. But take a minute to think about what your own caption might look like, a caption that gives voice only to the good, a caption that does not let negativity and self-censorship creep in.
Would you see yourself in your own caption? Jump on our website and post your own caption, see if you recognize the woman in the words. If you don’t, you should start to. Or post a friend’s and see if she’ll recognize herself.
I’ll finish with this caption, does it sound like someone you know, someone you could know?
Full-time mom, sometime triathlete, operations expert, former P.I., league founder, community builder.
Missy Park, Founder
Career: editor and graphic designer, part-time seamstress and novelist
Sports: kung fu and tai chi
Hobbies: all of the above!
Best Recent Accomplishment: opened a shop on etsy.com to sell custom-fit costumes and clothing
Current Goal: Training toward Grand Champion of the Legends of Kung Fu tournament next summer.
Career: Public Broadcasting Research Guru and Freelance Evaluator
Sports: All of them! But I am most fond of Horseback riding, basketball, and Soccer.
Best Accomplishment: Raising two great human beings; one neuro-typical, one not so neuro-typical.
Favorite Movie: Horse Whisperer
Six Words: Don’t know what I can’t do.
late in life athlete, obsessive endurance kayak racer, cat lover, motivational speaker, double knee replacement, breast cancer survivor, spoiled wife, loyal friend, avid reader, great cook, Starbucks addict
Career: Caregiver and history/religion student.
Sports: Walking, hiking, cycling and yoga. One of these days I will add soccer and archery to the list.
Hobbies: Collecting and redistributing used books in rural/low-income communities and elder centers/retirement homes who have little to no funding or access to libraries. Figuring out ways to involve community members for multi-cultural events on a volunteer basis. Working on ways to integrate job skill programs for the homeless population, also on a volunteer basis, in metropolitan areas. Learning more about world religions. Reading British crime fiction. Bookcrossing.com (see my weblink). Blogging.
Best Recent Accomplishment: Replacing the “I should” line of thinking with “I will do what’s best for me, not what I *shoud* do (according to others or conventional wisdom).
Favorite Recent Reading: “After You’d Gone”- Maggie O’Farrell
Where I’d Like to Visit: Morocco; Miami; Peru; Seattle; Salt Lake City; Ireland; Scotland; England (doing this in 2012, saving for the Olympics); Savannah, Georgia; Washington D.C.; Charleston, S.C.; Stockholm; Copenhagen; Montana; Greece; Ireland; Italy and Norway. Just to name a few.
Career: chemical engineer and strategic planner
Sports: Sea kayaking, snowboarding, running, cycling
Hobbies: flying a taildragger and playing with Lucie, our lab. Volunteer for Habitat for Humanities and pilot for Angel Flight West
Best Recent Accomplishment: Celebrated 35th wedding anniversary and gave up caffiene
Favorite Recent Reading: “Geopolitics of Energy” and “A Town Like Alice”
Countries I would like to visit: Ireland, South Africa and Peru
Great aunt and guardian of six year old at the age of 56, teacher, graphic designer and artist, still addicted to the sun and snow skiing. Still healthy, happy and yes, using hormone replacement! A grandmother of three beautiful boys and soon to be grandma again! (Can’t wait)! Mountain biker, fisherwomen, camper, hiker and still learning! In love with LIFE!
Academic librarian, internationally-ranked samurai swordfighter, yogini, rare-breed poultry farmer, webmistress!
Career: Full time UC Berkeley English major, C.S. rock star, Boxer and Fitness Guru, and future lawyer.
Sports: Competitive boxing, surfing, running, yoga.
Hobbies: Gourmet vegetarian cooking and breeding Bearded Dragons.
Best Recent Accomplishment: Losing thirty pounds (and still losing)
Little Known Fact: She has no joint in her left thumb!
Ultra distance cyclist turned triathlete, thoughtful wife, provider of laps and retriever of lost cat toys, dedicated teacher and cookie baker extraordinaire 🙂
Forensic psychologist and dog-lover extraordinaire!