I never signed up for this….. Exactly 6 years ago today I started this blog and chose that title, both the title and the date intended as deliberate ways to challenge the universe. When something bad happens, you naturally associate the bad thing with what surrounds it: the date, where you were, what you were […]
TED talks
About a year ago I attended my first TEDx Conference in San Jose. Out in the lobby of the venue was a huge chalkboard titled Before I die….It was like a group bucket list where conference attendees could write their intentions or wishes or dreams. I think Channing Tatum is pretty adorable; but when I […]
Milestones and millstones
My office (and my life) often are filled with chaos and clutter; but maybe never more than now. I have to weave around boxes just to get to my desk to write this. I also have so much to do I haven’t been on Facebook out of the house for weeks–except for medical reasons—V’s kidney […]
Bob Beers: A Loss for Words
I want to write about him; but I know my words will fail to capture the essence of Bob Beers. His words would be so much better. And funnier. He was brilliant, erudite, articulate—part curmudgeon/part newsman in the mold of Edward R. Murrow. If he read that, he’d probably laugh and say he was more […]
Distraction by Zynga
I just read in USA Today that the residents of Farmville are in deep shit: Zynga is having a financial and management crisis. I don’t play Farmville but I did happen to be at Zynga last week; and I could see the signs. Actually I was in San Francisco for the first BlogHer Pro conference, which […]
Create and connect–by the numbers
A week ago I was sitting in a canvas chair under a tent surrounded by a circle of women. We did what women do when they get together—they talk. And talk. And talk. (And drink wine. We did that, too.) It sounds simple. It was. It sounds ordinary. It wasn’t. This was Creative Alliance, a gathering […]
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