Costs: food nightly feeding ritual huge, heavy tubs of litter time spent cleaning and changing litter vet visits emergency vet visits disruption to sleep (potentially) cat sitter costs (when traveling) hindrance to productivity when working from home cleaning up piss
This Week Alone
This week alone, my first week of transitioning to my new business, I have: Spoken to a group of undergrad students about empathy in marketing strategy, prepped for a similar talk to a larger group of students, moderated a panel
Do It On Purpose
Today I announced the closing of my company, [meta]marketer. I suspected there might be some buzzing about it – after all, to minimize speculation, I sent a press release to some of my friends in the media – but candidly, I kind
Going vegan or vegetarian for the new year?
My blog isn’t about veganism, per se, but since a lot of people in my social circles know me as a long-time vegan, I’m often asked for suggestions on how to make the transition smoothly. As I approach 16 years as a
The most important things I’ve learned in 40 years
“Fake it ’til you make it” actually works. You’re not faking it as much as you think. The difference between comedy and tragedy is where you stop telling the story. Both/and. YDTBFC. (You deserve to be fucking cherished.) You can
The Link Between Gratitude and Hope
I can’t remember if I’ve mentioned it in this blog anywhere, but I’m currently writing two books. One of them is about marketing new ideas, and one is a memoir dealing with the deaths of my father and my husband.
Dates and Numbers
My mind has always been mildly obsessed with numbers. Words, too, but in a different way. You know that scene in “A Beautiful Mind” when John Nash, played by Russell Crowe, is looking at the coded numbers on the wall and
Gmail doesn’t know how to count.
That is all.
Surviving the First Year
Tomorrow, June 25th, it will have been one year since Karsten died. I’ve gained a vast amount of insight about life in the last year. I learned that the initial year after you lose someone is sometimes called “the year
Long voicemails = the end of phones?
After slogging my way through several minutes-long voicemail messages today, I’m developing a hypothesis about divergent voicemail styles. As text messaging has increased, it seems to me anecdotally that voicemail usage has decreased, but those who do leave voicemail messages