As more people have adjusted to working from home this year, more and more of us are analyzing our personal work-related habits in the pursuit of increased productivity and improved performance. Everyone has a different working style and performs best under specific circumstances. Finding out what your style is and what environment creates the best […]
While out at dinner with friends last week (outdoor dinning of course!), I was asked a very random question… “If you weren’t in the Marketing and Research field, what job would you do?” Without hesitation, I replied “florist”. For those of you that know me, you’ll know I love taking care of people; and nothing […]
The year of 2020 has obviously been a strange one. It’s so easy to focus on the negatives and things we haven’t been able to do, but if we all dig deep enough, surely there is some positivity we can share. Maybe you have made a personal change in your life that you are proud […]
The pandemic has me going through the old record and CD collections and I found myself looking for songs of loss and longing that dug really deep. I wound up revisiting songs that seemed delightful trifles in their original versions but were transformed to downright profundity by some extraordinary interpreters. Take the Carole King/Gerry Goffin-penned […]
The world’s house arrest surfaced new habits and accelerated synthetic products – big empires today. Think the star-studded MasterClass, or the elite expertise of Farnham Street. This is a far cry from when I made $380 dollars selling some made-with-care digital log cabins in SecondLife back when spinning logos were still the rage. I quickly […]
Through my school years as a shy kid, I grew up never wanting to raise my hand in class, fearing I would look stupid, show weakness, and interrupt the teacher for no reason. Even through university, where discussion is encouraged, no one ever questioned why we did certain assignments and why it was important. Or […]
The anti-maskers are scary people. I have friends and relatives in the medical field and one thing is true: it’s completely wrong to believe that masks don’t matter. The fact that there’s a 75% reduction of transmitting or absorbing microbes by wearing one says it all. Contrary to inaccurate, delusional rhetoric, they do make a […]
Growing up in Oregon there was one sensible player in town when it came to internet service. Where I was in particular, unless you lived under a rock and only needed internet speeds allowing you to monitor email a few times a week, download single JPEGs, or occasionally Google something, then you needed fast-speed internet […]
For the last week, I’ve been staying with a friend who grew up playing the piano in school. Childhood memories of that experience inspired her to want to learn to play again as an older adult. In the past 10-15 years, I’ve noticed more music programs get cut from elementary and middle schools in particular, […]
