I love giving a good gift. Yesterday we attended my friend’s seventith surprise party. For a month I have been racking my brain trying to figure out what to get him. As of last week, all I could think of was a gift card. Finally on Friday, I found the perfect gift. My husband and I travel with the friend whose birthday it was. So, clearly …
Language matters. Words matter. It frames how we view things, events, people, ideas and more. We see pundits, politicians, PR pros, advertisers, marketers and other all use it. It makes great sense to use words to point out hypocrisy and inconsistency where we find it; I enjoy ther use -- frequently I hope. I prefer using it in a positive m …
Apparently in France people take their Nutella very seriously. Parisian's emotional connections to Nutella were on display when a French supermarket chain drastically cut the price of a 2 lb jar of Nutella on Thursday. This resulted in never before seen outbursts of violence between customers fighting to get their hands on the product. “They …
The other morning my day did not start well. As I was scrolling through the early morning emails I came upon my credit card bill and I was shocked to learn my balance due was double my norm. My first fear was that I had been hacked, but that was not the case. The problem was that my payment of the previous month's balance had arrived late. The …
The other day, I walked from my office on Broadway and 39th Street to “Ink48” (a wonderful boutique hotel with a great restaurant-“Print”) on 48th Street and Eleventh Avenue. As I walked north on Broadway, I left the old “garment district” which is gradually absorbing non-garment businesses with its people-friendly pedestrian mall on Broadway. I …
Alienation, desolation, heartache ...loneliness. Great Britain has just named a new postion in its Post Breixit government: Minister of Loneliness. I think its a good idea, isolation is a growing problem, but I'd give it a different name. __________________ From the NY Times: The issue prompted Prime Minister Theresa May on Wednesday to appoint a m …
I had the experience the other evening of meeting someone new but having the gnawing feeling that we had met before. I was certain that we had never met, but something just felt too familiar. Maybe it was the tone of a voice, a look, I’m not sure. When it all came clear to me, I realized that this new acquaintance was the spitting image of …
I have seen so many articles lately which tout the importance of consistent nightly sleep. Apparently, some of the few benefits of having healthy sleep patterns are improvement in memory, reduction of stress and anxiety, aid in weight loss, reduction in inflammation, a sharper focus, and, essentially, help you live longer. I, admittedly, hav …
I had to cut short my weekend basketball (not easy when you shoot 75%) for baseball (well, sort of). I accepted an invite to visit Citifield – home of my beloved Mets with Shelly. Doors opened at 12:30 p.m. and hoops officially ends at noon but often runs a bistle over. Needless to say, we arrived a bit early. We met my brand new group sales li …
What follows are some funny tweets I found...enjoy! "I just spent 20 minutes at the store choosing the best food with only organic ingredients for my dog, then took my kids to Burger King." "Steps to survive on a dessert island: 1. check spelling 2. if correct, enjoy" "Carrots are a great thing to eat when you are hungry and want to stay that …
A couple years ago, while at a GOtham Green meeting I had a "Save the World" type of inspiration to blurt that, in the spirit of the tobacco litigation, somebody should bring a lawsuit against the oil companies concerning their obvious impact upon our climate change. Of course, it was a favorably received notion, but nothing came of it. Recentl …
Two blogs ago, I wrote about a view from a glove. Giving personality to inanimate objects is, for me, a wonderful little fantasy escape. An exercise in imagination. Feelings should abound and be enjoyed even by things. My fantasies were validated the other morning. We are lucky to have a wonderful glass sculpture that we call “Sunshine”. It’s a …
How often do you change your fixed perception of a situation in a significant way? It happened to me a number of years ago when I saw the musical Wicked for the first time. It was literally life changing. There is a well established, pretty universally accepted "norm" and it is shattered. Never looked at The Wizard of Oz the same again. Recen …
Yesterday my son hit the send button for the last time. That is, he applied to the last college on his list. We had a little party. Now we are in the waiting game as the schools make their decisions over the next few weeks and months. A nerve-wracking time but actually kind of freeing. At this moment, as a high school senior he has do …
This blog is not so much about the story that I’m relaying. This blog is about trust. The same woman, Rachel, has been cutting and coloring my hair for the past ten years. On Saturday morning, I had an 9:00 a.m. appointment for a cut and color. The salon called me early in the morning to tell me that Rachel was ill and would not be coming …
