Month: September 2010
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Photo by ginnerobot New post tomorrow. In the interim, I thought I’d update you on a couple of new projects. Firstly, I’m joining RAW as their personal finance and career management expert-ish type. The site hasn’t officially launched yet, but feel free to poke around. And no, I will not start using the word tribe. …
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The other night, I found myself standing in the condiment aisle of the supermarket debating about whether to buy the regular peanut butter or the natural, organic stuff. I wanted the former, but knew I should stick with the latter. It’s 10:00 PM, they’re playing The %^$#@& Fray over the PA system and I’m standing…
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So, I was discussing a piece I glanced over for a friend last night and I realized that the point she was making in her analysis was exactly what I was grappling with in terms of my own writing/social media presence/artfully constructed persona – where does performance end and unintended self revelation begin and just…
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I’m sick of passion and exhortations to discover it, embrace it, follow it, stay true to it, etc. Maybe it’s because I’ve been watching a lot of Top Chef lately (pairs well with rebounding from food poisoning) and have heard contestant after contestant blather about being passionate about food, or maybe it’s because the internet…
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Eons ago (okay, more like a couple of months), I enlisted the very talented Jennette Fulda at Make My Blog Pretty to whip me up a cute little vanity site. And then life happened and I didn’t get around to filling the site with content and officially launching it. UNTIL RIGHT NOW. It’s live, it’s…
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I am not very good at waiting. Never have been. And lately, I’ve been doing a lot of waiting. A lot. Boomerangs that I’ve tossed out and now it’s up to the universe to return them. Photo by Bondseye I wasn’t one of those kids who kicked the back of the seat and kept asking,…
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Hate To Break It To You is a recurring feature wherein we dispense succinct home truths that everyone could benefit from facing up to, unpleasant as they may be. The more you are actually engaged in the highs and lows of life, the less time or inclination you have to dissect them in public detail.…
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New York Magazine runs a regular feature on the food diary of a celebrity/public figure/whoever they can round up. Last week’s happened to be Mika Brzezinski, co-host of Morning Joe. I can’t remember where I stumbled upon a link to the rundown of her recent eating habits, but after reading it, I felt compelled to…
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