Girl Gone Smart: Bring on the horror and the haunted *Language Warning*
My backyard is still lush and green, but along the edges of my yard sit a couple yellow leaves as big as pot holders and as beautiful as...
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Heather C Fazio
- Aug 8, 2021
- 2 min
Girl Gone Smart: Dying to be oppressed *Language warning*
I don't know how many posts and comments I've seen where the unvaccinated are screaming into the air about how their constitutional...
Christina Salisbury
- Apr 9, 2021
- 2 min
Girl Gone Smart: Stop saying "...but not all men..."
*Trigger & Language Warning* A few years ago I left a toxic job very abruptly. To say I had a bad day was an understatement. I had...
Heather C Fazio
- Jan 7, 2021
- 1 min
Girl Gone Smart: The f**k was that? The CoupKluxKlan.
I'm not shocked or surprised at what happened yesterday in our country's capitol. If you are, you haven't been paying attention. This has...
Heather C Fazio
- Dec 4, 2020
- 2 min
Girl Gone Smart: "Fake News" needs to leave our house with Donald Trump
I think that many people forget, me included sometimes, the Press Corps was created specifically to hold government accountable. It's why...
Heather C Fazio
- Nov 17, 2020
- 2 min
Girl Gone Smart: Season 4 of The Crown - disappointing
Fair warning: Possible spoilers - read at your own risk. When I was a child, I remember hearing a rumor about my Great Aunt Daisy and her...
Heather C Fazio
- Oct 26, 2020
- 2 min
Girl Gone Smart: Well I was standing on the corner of...
*Language warning* The fact I have rheumatoid arthritis (RA) isn't a secret to anyone who knows me. I'm incredibly open about it because...
Heather C Fazio
- Oct 8, 2020
- 1 min
Girl Gone Smart: The bodacious, audacious fly
I had started writing a post about the presidential debate last week, but realized I had absolutely nothing enlightening, funny, or new...
Heather C Fazio
- Sep 14, 2020
- 3 min
Girl Gone Smart: Cuties - Trigger warning
Guest post by: Abbe Hanley Trigger warning: sexual abuse, child abuse, child sexual abuse, and racism. Note from GGS: I've been seeing a...
Heather C Fazio
- Aug 10, 2020
- 1 min
Girl Gone Smart: Child-trafficking; here's how you can help. Really.
My timeline is overrun with "pizza gate" conspiracy theories accusing everyone from Tom Hanks to Bill Gates of child molestation and...
Heather C Fazio
- Jul 30, 2020
- 2 min
Girl Gone Smart: Of course, delay the election.
The poll numbers are clear - Donald Trump is losing in a few of the normally guaranteed red states as of the writing of this piece. Yes,...
Heather C Fazio
- Jul 28, 2020
- 2 min
Girl Gone Smart: 97 days
There are only 97 days left until the 2020 election. Unfortunately, the president has put out a lot of misinformation so I want to ensure...
Heather C Fazio
- May 28, 2020
- 4 min
Girl Gone Smart: Uncomfortable? Good. (Language warning.)
Self-awareness is a son-of-a-bitch but a necessary one. I finished the book White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo about a week ago and it...
Heather C Fazio
- May 17, 2020
- 1 min
Girl Gone Smart: Obama Commencement 2020
It started with one tweet from 17 year old Lincoln Debenham on Tuesday, April 14. "Hi @BarackObama! Like most high school/college...
Heather C Fazio
- May 11, 2020
- 2 min
Girl Gone Smart: White people - please stop it
Look, I get that writing this may be doing exactly what I'm suggesting you stop doing, but it needs to be said. I don't care how "woke"...
Heather C Fazio
- May 6, 2020
- 2 min
Girl Gone Smart: Parents, now is your chance to rid yourself of the pesky "liberal" education
So very often I see adults complaining about the "liberal" education their children are getting in the New York State public school...
Heather C Fazio
- May 5, 2020
- 4 min
Girl Gone Smart: My breast biopsy experience (language warning)
I wasn't going to write about this because it feels too personal, but a friend reached out after I had checked in to St. Peter's Hospital...
Heather C Fazio
- Apr 1, 2020
- 2 min
Girl Gone Quarantined: "Upstate" NY, you're completely right!
There are a hundred ways to define "upstate" so you can choose to define it however you would like. I realized today how right you are...
Heather C Fazio
- Mar 29, 2020
- 1 min
Girl Gone Smart: Upset about liquor stores being essential in New York?
I was too. Well, not upset but very confused and of course like many of you, couldn't understand why liquor stores were deemed essential...
Daniel Jeanson
- Mar 26, 2020
- 3 min
Girl Gone Planning: Working from home and the implications on planning
At 36, I've now had a job and been employed for nearly 20 years (briefly unemployed in 2008 after the computer store I worked at during...
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