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I Will #NeverForget – Nor Should I

There are days that you never forget. Days in your life that when you let yourself think about them, the memory is more clear and vivid that what you did in the last hour. Every detail floods your mind and the experience takes over your body as if you are living it all over. Even though it […]

The Making Of A Podcast

In 2011 I went to Blogworld’s New Media Expo at the Javits Center. One of the breakout sessions I sat in on was about podcasting – how easy it was for anyone to start one and how this was the next great wave in media. I left that session so enthused! I had started my […]

A Digital-First Approach To Personal Branding Is No Longer Optional

here’s how to make it work for you I’ve advocated a digital-first approach to personal branding for a long time. Getting your brand right online first forces you to articulate who you are, what you do, why you do it, and where you want to go. You can’t wing it online, in the same manner, […]

Here Comes The Sun: My First Steps Towards Life Post COVID-19

I remember when leaving my apartment and walking the three blocks it takes to get to the PATH train was routine. It required no thought, only muscle memory to slide my metro card through the turnstile and descend the giant escalator to the platform where I would wait for the next train. But not today. […]

My First Father’s Day Without My Father

I knew something was different that first November when my birthday rolled around and there was no card in the mail addressed “To my one and only daughter, xoxo, Daddy.” Then there was Thanksgiving which marked my first attempt to cook a turkey, the one he was not there to carve. And that first Christmas when […]

In Order To Fix Our Problem, We Have to Acknowledge We Have One

There’s been a problem with my mother’s freezer for awhile. She knew it. I knew it. My brother knew it. Not everything was freezing equally and ice kept accumulating on the thermostat in the back. None of us wanted to deal with it. Not even my mother who in her younger days would have called […]