Politics As (un) Usual
“Allowing non-citizen’s to vote??! What?! Did I hear that right?” I was certain I misread a news feed but, sadly, it was true. There is a growing push in some quarters to legalize voting for non-citizens in the USA. Apparently it has already begun in California while I was busy preparing for a our daughter’s wedding last fall. I had promised myself to stay well away from the politics of the US Presidential election this year, because no matter what I could say it would be polarizing. I could feel the indignant “WTF??” rising up within me, a...
Read MoreThought Cookies
There I was, minding my own business on Facebook (I must pause here to make the most obvious observation…..I was actually minding everyone else’s business, or at least the business they cared to post) and the sofa I had been lusting after at One King’s Lane (a yummy furniture and decorating auction site) popped up as a sponsored link on Facebook! “What??! How did they know that was the exact sofa I wanted??” I exclaimed. John said “Cookies.”, without even looking up from his computer. Cookies? I have heard about cookies and thought I had to have...
Read MoreFor The Love Of Twenty-Somethings
I have a secret. I adore twenty-somethings. I love that they don’t wear watches (why would you, the phone tells the time), make only soft plans (again because the phone is used as homing device for both time and space), and are following their hearts because they literally can’t do anything else. They have the world at their fingertips, are amazingly aware of the plights of others and don’t know that having a job was their parents secret reason for making sure they went to college. I love that they express themselves honestly, even if it makes their elders wince in...
Read MoreI Can’t Go Anywhere Without My Self
I have just finished a teleconference call with Jack Canfield (you remember my buddy I walked with during my month of extending love to my fear of success) and branding expert Nick Nanton (who I only know through email updates) about publishing a best-selling book. It seemed harmless enough to listen to the call. I mean, how could I not listen to find out how I could publish a best-selling book with Jack Canfield. It is a program, it turns out, to quietly, yet honestly, manufacture a best-selling (this best-selling moniker is the key and the guarantee) anthology of sorts called “The...
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