It’s been one of those long weeks, when I’m up before the sun and up until long after it sets and I still have a lot to get done. But it’s all good. Work is bustling so much that my company, Your People LLC, is moving into an office for the first time in my 12-year self-employed career. (Look forward… Read more →
Last fall, I picked up my tennis racquet again (which I remember, had bought from tennisracquets.com) after no consistent play for 20-some years and I got back in the game. I love tennis. It’s a be-here-right-now game and I’m meeting great people on the court after my too-long hiatus. So it’s a natural next-step to want to play tournaments and… Read more →
I’ve always told my children that our goal on this earth is to make the world better. But I didn’t really walk the walk until the eve of my 40th birthday, when this midlife turning point made me realize that if what I’m doing every day doesn’t have meaning, I’m wasting my life. So I set out to make this… Read more →
Nothing in excess was the second adage written above the door at the Delphi. The first: know thyself. Every time I turn around, there is a lesson repeated from another tradition, all languages universal, all belief systems eternal. Be of the world but not in it. From the book on runes but it is also from Vedanta and frankly, Orthodox Judaism.… Read more →
I got sick this weekend. Again. I won’t go into the gory details but I had to wonder why, just a month after my last foray under the covers in bright daylight, I was sick again. I’m a healthy, active, energetic woman. Young woman, damn it! I eat vegetables, hardly any meat and I work out as much as I… Read more →
I knew it! PR isn’t about public relations – it’s about people. Imagine that. In a world gone social media, people still reign supreme. (I don’t think the twentysomethings have heard…) Great article in the April 2011 issue of Tactics, the PR Society of America’s publication. Susan Balcom Walton, associate chair of communication at Brigham Young U., wrote the following:… Read more →
They say, “You want something done, give it to a busy person.” So true. I was called an energizer bunny the other day because I have ideas brimming over and want to do new things all the time. Isn’t that the spice of life? What fun, what joy, that I have the opportunity to create opportunities, the passion to try… Read more →