I admit it. I watched the Whitney Houston funeral Saturday afternoon. I even hit record in case I missed something. I’m not sure what drove me to turn it on. Probably the same thing that has driven me to watch other televised memorials. A morbid curiosity to uncover how a life filled with so much […]
The First Step
The first step is so @##**/ # hard. Anyone who tells you it’s not, is lying. Especially when it comes to the really important stuff. The stuff that is going to make the big differences in your life. The stuff that you know is for your own good. I’ve taken a lot of first steps […]
A Different Kind Of Giving Birth
When I first read my dear friend, artist and fellow writer, Suzi Banks Baum‘s request for guest posts for her “Out of the Mouths of Babes” project I felt ill equipped to write anything having to do with mothering. Mostly because I am not one. But something called to me that particular Saturday morning and […]
They Won’t All Love You
One of the hardest adjustments I had when I first became a manager was adjusting to the fact that not everyone was going to love me. In fact they may not even like me. Up until then that is what I strived for. As a salesperson, one learned to go out of their way to […]
Spreading A Little Love
I’m feeling love in the air. Do you feel it too? It’s that February thing. Valentine’s Day. A spot of red hot warmth in the middle of the cold, dark winter. That promise that love lives, not just in the green of spring and summer, but in the gray depths of what can sometimes seem […]
Managing Expectations
The headline of the article in the print edition of Wednesday’s New York Times Business section read “Sales Miss Forecast at Amazon.” The online version was more pointed. “Amazon’s Revenues Disappoint.” Judging by the number of Amazon boxes I saw delivered on an average December day to my West Side building, I found this difficult […]
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