We fell down a Pinterest hole and found a whole bunch of women who we’d NEVER heard about in history classes. Ching Shih, an infamous Chinese pirate, a Viking fighter historians have dubbed, the Birka Warrior, Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell who discovered pulsars & Julie d’Aubigny, a swashbuckling, bisexual, opera singing extraordinaire.

Why wait to do those things on your “bucket list”? Amy got us both thinking about things we haven’t done, but would love to do. Juggling, riding a unicycle, travel, rally driving, who knows what trouble we could get up to next year if we ACTUALLY do the stuff on our lists? Hey! What’s on yours?

Why do we do the things we do while in public? Simple actions like using the restroom or riding the bus get a lot more complicated when thinking about what other people might expect. Throw in the possibility of cross-cultural miscommunication and the probability that you’ll “put your foot in it” goes up a thousand percent. Fun right?!? Let’s explore some social conventions.