After listening to a favorite college professor share insights from a project she undertook tracking women from former East Berlin when the wall came down, I’ve been thinking a lot about how much a socialist society like the former DDR (Deutsche Demokratische Republik in German, or German Democratic Republic in English) supported humanity, while also […]
Archive | Weekly Survival
Weekly or bi-monthly stories and tips for surviving your work week. We like to find the humor in our irony, and hope you do, too.
Professional Home-dwellers
As I hammer through proposals and emails, make several phone calls, and set up multiple meetings…I am finding more and more smiles in my life, and less and less guilt about mid-day errands. Today I had to pick up my daughter and her friend in the middle of my work day for an hour-and-a-half lunch […]
Fourth of July Fodder
It’s a holiday! Time to make your favorite food, a la Martha Stewart. Time to eat. Time to exercise. Time to read your friend’s cancer blog and… oh. It’s un-effing-believable that my friend’s cancer is back. As a mom, wife, professional, academic, my friend embodies unadulterated brilliance in her unfiltered storytelling. You learn more about […]
Creative Education – aka “Liberal Arts”
These past three days have been nostalgic for me. Alumni weekend does that – especially since it’s been 20-some years since I graduated from a liberal arts college. A graduate and published author called our school “neo-hippie”. Many of us have referred to it, at one point or another, as “artsy fartsy”. Isn’t that what […]
Trust in the Universe
After speaking to a Covert Workshop participant and community member, I wanted to share her path and inspiring story as she jumps into the next decade of her FutureYou plan. During the conversation, she mentioned how things have been coming together for her since the seed was planted to follow her heart. “Once it was […]
Making Products for the 1%
I’ve been thinking about a product I’m in the process of co-developing and whether our target audience at retail are yummie mummies or simply the 1%. I had a sudden moment of brilliance (m.0.b.) when I thought about how unique that idea was – making products for the 1%. (mpft1) And then I remembered. Oh […]
Drive Drive Drive
Do you ever wonder when the wheels will stop turning in your head – and you can finally just breathe with a glass of water, wine or bevvie of your choice, and a good book? My head feels like it’s on over drive much of the time. Maybe it’s because I’m all too aware of […]
Climbing the Mountain
Lately I’ve been looking at a lot of imagery for clients that relate to mountain climbing. A woman stands atop a peak, ready to summit the next. A group of climbers are roped together as they descend a steep slope in snow. It’s a great metaphor for aspiring to dream big and to be bold […]
French “Feminisme’
This story is so absurd, it had to be French (influenced by the likes of Albert Camus). And yet… as surreal as it is, and rather shocking, it’s sort of the reverse truth of what it feels like to be objectified as a woman. In her case, the writer chose to cast the house-man as […]
Two Audiences to Think About – for Networking a Job Search
Recently I volunteered advice to a family member – which probably means it sounded all preachy and fell on deaf ears! However, I feel compelled to share it because it really comes so naturally to me, but when I said it out loud, it sounded BRILLIANT. Okay, so it’s a subjective point of view. Now […]
