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The 365 Day Writing About Nothing And Everything Project

I wrote my first blog ten years ago today. It was a precarious time in my life. I had just lost my job. I barely knew what a blog was much less what I was going to write about. All I knew was that I was going to write. And I did. I hit publish. […]

Why I Vote Every Chance I Get And You Should Too

My birthday falls just two weeks after Election Day so the very first election I wanted to vote in I couldn’t because I wasn’t 18 yet. That was 1972 and my candidate, George McGovern lost to Richard Nixon, someone who resigned in disgrace less than two years later in August 1974. I supposed you could […]

When You Need A Leader And There Is None To Be Found

Every time my mother says to me that she has never seen things as bad as they are now it tugs on my heart. My mother is 96. She was born into the Great Depression, lived through WWll, lost her mother when she was seventeen and one of her brothers when he was nineteen. She […]

The Reason Henri Bendel Is Shutting Its Doors That No One Is Talking About

I suppose I should be surprised that Henri Bendel is closing its doors. After all it’s been around for 123 years, surviving multiple wars, the Great Depression, the Great Recession, multiple generations of women as well as the advent of much competition along the way. But I’m not. While many are going to blame the […]

What I’ve Learned After 10 Years Of Working On My Own

A lot happened in 2008. On September 29th of that year the Dow plunged almost 778 points, setting the country plunging into what would be called the Great Recession. On November 4th Barack Obama was elected the first African-American President of the United States in history. But for me the day that would be the […]

When You Forget The Essence Of Your Brand

When I started blogging I had absolutely no idea what I was going to write about with the exception of how it felt to be in this place of limbo I suddenly found myself in, divorced from a long and successful corporate career and not quite certain what was next. I called the blog One […]