Women's History month 2008 is nearly over, but I am excited because I am just beginning. I am finally starting my blog on women's issues and news in Utah. It has taken me two years to get to this point. What I want to share is what I have seen, heard, read and thought about women's issues. I did some fun and educational things in this month of Women's History, although some of them may have ocurred in February, like seeing the play "Crowns." A friend of mine was one of the actresses, DeeDee Duffin, she was wonderful and sang so well. "Crowns" is the story of black women's hats and the stories of the women wearing them. You can buy the book of photos exhibited at the time "Crowns" ran.
I saw a gorgeous powerful pink almost fuschia colored wide-rimmed hat the other day. I wanted to buy it, but I wondered would I really wear it ever? It makes a statement and do I really want to do that? Maybe I should buy it for a decoration, but where would I put it? Some things just have to be relished in memory. The pink hat would give me a memory of Women's History Month 2008 and the year I started by blog. Maybe I will just have to go and get it!
About Me
- Nancy Mitchell
- For ten years I ran the Women's Business Center in Salt Lake City where we offered training in entrepreneurship, certification and procurement, mentoring, business management, marketing, business plan writing, and cash flow/accounting. We sponsored networking opportunities and several conferences and special events. I took great pride in offering and nominating women and small business owners for awards so other people would be inspired to move to the next level. I was lead to this work by my lifelong interest in women's issues and business (my degree is in business). Writing has always been one of my passions, starting with working at my small town newspaper writing comments on happenings in my town, continuing on to editing my college newspaper and then other newsletters for various organizations, culminating in our Women's Business Center newsletter. When our center closed at the end of September, somewhere I read that what I had done before was just preperation for what I would do in the future. My work at the center prepared me for writing business plans and I hope blogs. So has my work to become a certified fianncail planner, which I accomplished in teh early 1990's.