I can hardly believe I’m saying this, but I just got back from a Fabulous Palm Springs Weekend. Sunshine. Reading. Lounging poolside with cocktails. There was a lanai involved, and a great deal of very delicious food. (Lesson learned: when choosing one’s friends, it doesn’t hurt to include “excellent cook” along with “kind,” “fun,” “goofy,” [...]
communicating
Apparently, the only thing that terrifies me more than giving a talk at TEDxTacoma about passion-based communicating is watching myself give a talk about it. Still, I felt is was important to put on my Big-Girl Pants and watch it. The whole thing, slightly less than 18 minutes, because I got a little nervous and [...]
I’ve been working on a super-secret web project for an interesting, celebrity client who is using her high profile in the real world for, as I like to say, the powers of Good and not Evil, something I always try to support here at communicatrix-dot-com. Hell, that’s kind of my modus operandi for life in [...]
I’m all for blogs, clearly. But there is, when all is said and done, something about a book. You can bring a book on a train! You can read it in bed or on the couch or in the tub. You can love it up and pass it along. And while I’m delighted when people [...]
When it comes to a Toastmasters meeting, the hands-down favorite event is usually our extemporaneous speech feature, “Table Topics.” One person takes on the task of coming up with a slew of questions which she then springs on a series of unsuspecting (but, for the most part, secretly hopeful) victims, who are given a short [...]
When normal people play hooky, they go to the movies or the beach or Vegas. When nerds take the day off, they go to see this guy, and come home 8 hours later, drunk with possibility, clutching a set of books so beautiful in both thought and execution, you get a little dizzy just opening [...]
So about three years ago I bought this couch: Big. Red. Room-dominating. Expensive as hell. (What can I say? I was going through a phase about shedding my infernal cheapness. And fuckery. So you see.) Anyway, it was/is a magnificent couch in its way, but it had no business being in my smallish, mid-century apartment. [...]
After being out of town and just plain out of commission, today found me both home and feeling over my cold enough to catch up with my beloved Lily. I made a decision awhile ago to stop multitasking during real phone conversations, since it’s not possible for me to have a quality talk with split [...]
