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The Day It All Changed

Twenty-six years ago today I was at home in my apartment in the Art Museum section of Philadelphia vacuuming when the phone rang. It was Carmella, the neighbor who lived four houses away from my parents telling me they had rushed my father to the emergency room. “Get home quick. Your mother is going to […]

What I’ve Learned About Blogging

A friend who is relatively new to blogging asked me if my blog had helped me professionally. I could tell by the look on her face that she still wasn’t sold on the idea of blogging, nor were her posts flowing freely. I could also tell that she was wondering just exactly how a blog […]

9 Rules For Your Basic Digital DeTox

Two years ago I embarked on my first digital detox. I was rather ambitious. I decided seven days would be the minimum amount of time necessary to effectively cleanse my system of the poisons of 24/7 technology overload. It was an eye-opening and admittedly difficult adventure that was chronicled on this blog as well as […]

How I Learned to Love Something I Never Thought I Would

I was a monogamous kind of girl in a committed relationship. For what seemed to be forever. I did not stray. Until I was forced to. Until I was given no other choice. Until I felt I had been abandoned. My needs no longer met. At first I thought it was a rumor. Some little […]

Five Reasons Not To Multi-Task

Somewhere along the line multi-tasking became a badge of honor. This concept of doing more than one thing at a time and then bragging about it as though it was an Olympic sport and you were training for a gold medal might at face value seem smart. Logically it appears that doing several things simultaneously […]

Gaming The System

When I started selling many moons ago one of the first things I was taught was that the easiest way to build long term business was to establish good relationships. If a client thought they could trust me, not only would I get the first sale, but renewals in the future. Trust was not something […]