Some days all the noise hexes me. The tweeting, the Facebook posts, the YouTube videos. All that self promotion that is at once a benefit to leveling the playing field in this new interconnected on line world we live in and an annoyance. What is real and what is made up? Some days I get hexed. […]

Desire # 39:  Send my thank you notes by hand I remember when I thought it was really cool to get an email. That was before spam, email marketing and the proliferation of electronic communication in business. It was also before my emails were accessible from every mobile device known to peoplekind. And now email […]

I think sometimes that too many of us cling to our jobs as though they were a life raft in the middle of a vast ocean. We look ahead to where we think the signs of land are, to where we think we are supposed to be going but our vision gets cloudy.  The fumes […]

When I was growing up one of my mom’s best friends used to come over for lunch every second week on her day off. Aunt Elaine (which is what I called her even though she was not my real Aunt) worked in an office. I found that rather enamoring as a young girl who grew […]