I met Claire Cook on Twitter. Yes, for those of you still wondering what the fuss is all about with Twitter, know that if it is nothing, it is a great way to forge new connections with like minded people. It began on Father’s Day when after posting my blog, I tweeted it. One of […]
The Alchemy of Wandering
Yesterday I was wandering where I was not supposed to be. In Henri Bendel. No longer shopping for sport I have found the easiest way to keep temptation at bay is to stay out of the stores completely in much the way a heavy smoker goes cold turkey to get things under control. But I […]
A Real Job
I don’t know how many times in these last months I have been asked if I was going to get a job, a real job that is. I am struck by a few things. The first is using the adjective ‘real’ before ‘job’. Apparently in some dictionaries writing is not considered to be one. A […]
World Wide Rave
One of the really great things about my life now is that I have time to learn. Not that I wasn’t learning new things when I was caught up in 9 to 5 but it was a lot harder then, especially when you are on the sales end. Revenue producers, particularly in the current economic […]
A Little Lipstick Can Turn It All Around
Sometimes when you are outside of the corporate conference room, it is easier to see how foolish the decisions made inside of it can be. Take NBC. First the network says it will cancel Lipstick Jungle and then they follow that up with announcing five nights of Jay Leno in prime time. Five nights […]
What I Miss About Corporate Life
When people ask me if I miss corporate life at all, my answer, without pause, is no. With the exception of a handful of close friends I worked with daily and the paycheck every two weeks I don’t miss much. But today I did. I was working on my blog. Not writing a new […]
