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Is A Balanced Life Really Possible?

A balanced life is something I like to strive for. Balance between work and personal, between my digital life and my offline life and these days between trying to maintain being an informed citizen who is paying attention in these very challenging political times and turning it all off so I can breathe without that […]

Why Quitting Facebook Will Not Fix The Real Issue

The biggest news in my Facebook feed this week is Facebook. Everyone is up in arms at the discovery that Cambridge Analytica harvested data from Facebook that apparently was then used to deliberately attempt to sway the 2016 Election. People are genuinely startled that (a) Facebook is using their data and (b) data mining has […]

What I’ll Be Doing More Of In 2018

My end of year reflection started early, on December 13 when I went in for long overdue foot surgery. My doctor had advised that I plan it when I could find at least two full weeks to keep it iced and elevated. That’s not an easy thing to find when one keeps the pace that […]

When The New Normal Becomes The New Numbness

Since Tuesday I’ve been experiencing something I’ve been trying to wrap my head around. It’s unusual for me, an emotional Scorpio of Greek heritage known to cry at a Hallmark commercial, who would not ride the subway for months after 9/11 to react in such a manner, but since I heard the news of this […]

All Things May Pass – Except The Need For Humans

A few weeks ago I was on a mission to watch All Things Must Pass, a documentary directed by Colin Hanks about the rise and fall of Tower Records. It had been on my to-do list for ages but it wasn’t until now, two years after the film was released that I was getting around […]