I proclaimed Today Girl-Power Day: seeking inspiration and motivation in all my activities to refresh and renew my energies as I doggie paddle through this job-search-thing.
So of course I . . .
1. Got a manicure
2. Devoured a homemade poptart or "popster" at a new bakery (to me): Sugar Bakeshop
3. Was enlightened by a visit to . . . (*see below for details)
4. Perused the shops at Cherry Creek North, store and restaurant lined streets all decked out in the finest fall leaves.
5. Devoured a hamburger at the Cherry Cricket with BACON--true girl power food.
6. Went halfsies on a Bread Pudding Cupcake at Big Fat Cupcake
7. No girl-power day would be complete without a chocolate or 2.
*but back to number 3
On Pennsylvania Street in the Capital Hill area of Denver, majestic,
historic, brick, stone, victorian, modern, restored and reinvented
homes, offices, churches and coffee shops stand side by side shaded by
wise leafy trees.
One building, one former residence was the centerpiece for this girl-power day!
From 1894 until her death in1932 the "Unsinkable Molly Brown" lived here. Fun facts I learned on the tour:
- She learned 5 languages as an adult and spoke them fluently
- She worked to create the first juvenile court system in the nation
- She founded one of the first humane societies in the nation, The Denver Dumb Friends League
- No one ever called her Molly. She went by Maggie and/or Margaret. The newspapers got her name wrong after the sinking of the Titanic and again when reporting her death. But Molly rhymes with more pleasant words than "Maggie" so the error was perpetuated in the musical "the Unsinkable Molly Brown"
Go girl!
Awesome!
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