WHAT is Operation Girl Scout Dropout?

A way to connect with like-minded women who know that laughter can get us through ANYTHING in life.

Women who cry until they laugh and laugh until they cry.  Women who know that support comes in many forms. Sometimes we need an entire troop of girlfriends. And sometimes, all we really need is something black and lacy. With underwire.

My name is Sandi Amorello. In addition to being an irreverent widow, I’m also a Girl Scout dropout.  These two things are undoubtedly somehow connected, but I am choosing not to pay a therapist to figure it out for me.  I was never the perfect girl, or the perfect scout. And I had zero interest in earning my housekeeping badge. But if the Girl Scouts had a badge for the “successful navigation of life altering experiences that might otherwise kill a lesser woman”…my mother would be affixing it to my sash as we speak. I have earned it.  My mother has earned her badges, as well.  So has my teenage daughter.

We all need our own badges. To remind us of where we’ve been…where we’re going…what we’ve surmounted…what we’ve accomplished.  To remind us that we are amazing women!

So I’m taking charge. I’m making my own badges. And I’m making some for you, too.  And we’re not even sewing them on.  Girl Scout dropouts don’t sew.  It’s not that we can’t. It’s just that we’re too busy laughing with our friends, playing with our children, salsa dancing…being true to ourselves. We know that life is too short to spend time sewing when, in most instances, a safety pin works just fine.

I’ve earned my badges.  I bet you have, too.

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HOW I became the troop leader.

Life never goes quite the way we plan…now does it?

We all run into bumps in the road. Big ones…like death and divorce.  Little ones…like forgetting to pick up our kids from summer camp.  Or having to endure a dinner date with a man who chews with his mouth open.  No matter what, we all need to find a way to keep laughing.

When I was first widowed, I couldn’t wait to go to a support group.  A chance to commiserate. A chance to get out of the house and get away from my children for an entire hour. Once a week!  The support group was a learning experience.  I don’t know that I learned about grieving or how to get through what I was going through. I did, however, learn that even in the midst of gut-wrenching tragedy, I was still laughing.  In between my tears, that is. There was only one other person in that group who was laughing.  She was wearing a red suit jacket the first time I saw her.  I knew she was my kind of woman.

Everyone else seemed stuck. Unable to move on with their lives.  Even the facilitator seemed depressed…and she was married to a man who was still breathing!

I decided then and there that, despite my bad luck, I was fortunate.  At least I still had a sense of humor!

I needed to surround myself with other women who could laugh and cry at the same time…without caring what anyone else thought. Women who followed their dreams, trusted their hearts and made their own rules.

I needed “Operation Girl Scout Dropout.”  You might, too.

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WHY you want to join!

You get to be part of a group of funny, cool, creative, intelligent women…plus, you get all this fabulous stuff!

*  The coveted “Behind the Scenes with Sandi” monthly newsletter.  Shockingly true tidbits on life, love, mid-life dating and      single parenting.

*  Opportunities to preview and vote on my latest Videos …and Be Interviewed by me at my studio!

*  Sandi’s Subversive Suggestions…advice your therapist would never give you.

*  Ways to earn fun new Badges!  Forget housekeeping and sewing…how about “playing hooky” and “martini making?”

*  Underground info about upcoming  Activities, Events and Field Trips!

*  An invitation to our online Pajama Party!   How much fun is that?  Share your own stories, post photos and notes. Fuzzy slippers are optional.  ;)

*  Special Discounts on fun and extraordinarily useful merchandise you simply cannot live without!

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