In my marketing days, I was taught to present the benefits of the product, service, or idea I represented. It may be effective in the short-term to utilize scare tactics, but for the sake of long-term success, it’s important to address genuine needs with real solutions. And you’d be wise to explain why and how […]
Archives for 2011
Kim Kardashian Divorce: Anything to Do With You or Me?
What could the latest celebrity breakup have to do with you – or me? Or our children, for that matter? You’d have to be living under a rock not to have heard about socialite-reality TV star Kim Kardashian’s mega-watt wedding, and just 72 days later, her filing for divorce. 72 days, as of yesterday, when […]
The Seduction of Small Victories
Even small victories in our daily lives – as parents, as people – bring satisfaction.
Exuding
Trusting your gut when it comes to first impressions… or not.
Contemplating. . . This, That. . . And The French
I am contemplating the need to sweep my small deck which is covered in a carpet of pine needles, and a few scattered golden leaves. I am contemplating a walk in the sunshine though it is cold, and the necessity of sticking to a brisk pace. I am contemplating a surprise dinner last evening – […]
Body Politic: How Our Bodies Look Vs. How We Use Them
A UK study suggests that women prefer food to sex. Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised.
Work of Art Season 2 Episode 3: Stop for Pop!
Kick the can? Not quite. Episode 3 of Work of Art leads the participants off the elevator and through the Phillips de Pury auction house, as they follow a trail of tin cans straight to the Holy Grail of Pop Art – Andy Warhol’s iconic Campbell’s Soup can. It’s the Pop Art challenge! Holy Marilyn! […]
Do You Fight Fair?
You’re dying to let loose and say what you really think but the words aren’t pretty so you’re biting your tongue. Whatever it is – you don’t say it. Because if you do – you can’t take it back. And you know that fighting fair is a sort of winning, in and of itself. Fighting […]
The Plague
From The Plague, by Albert Camus: I see no need to dwell on the manner of loving in our town. The men and women consume each other rapidly in what is called ‘the act of love’, or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality… for lack of time and thinking, people have to […]
Friction
Oh, those little differences that grate…