I love to travel, try new foods (both simple and "exotic"), ingest caffeine, and watch political news coverage. Im a big pop culture junkie who isnt afraid to say she loves "In Touch" Magazine! A social marketing expert and psychologist by training who works in the public health field trying to bring a little common sense to it all.
All the world is my television and I like to provide commentary on it.
Cheers
Brazilian cardinal Claudio Hummes once said, “We know that social exclusion is closely tied to the new economic world order, globalized, with free and open markets, which isn’t bringing prosperity or social justice to all.” The degenerative effects of this social exclusion even extend to public health. How else […]
Okay, listen up conference attendees, I don’t often assume the mantle of Miss Manners and discuss etiquette, but this is where you’ve driven me. Here’s the background. I work out. I don’t love to work out, but I do like to be able to fit into my dresses. […]
The tradition of giving gift bags to attendees at professional conferences started with the Aztecs. As a courtesy, priests visiting from different cities were handed a complementary bag of human hearts to take home, because obviously, unless you can display a set of useless set of branded trinkets, […]
Like a lot of women in Manhattan, I’m a Red Carpet kind of girl – I want the opportunity to show off my keen fashion sense, my latest haircut, my tasteful jewelry, and my cool shoes. Oh definitely my shoes. There was an ad running in the New […]
Who you calling a girl? Oh, never mind… I used to pride myself on not being a girly girl. I had never visited a hair salon. I feel day spas violate my personal space. A pedicure would be an exercise in mortification. It’s pointless (and possibly toxic) for […]
The Zen of Attending the International AIDS Conference Partners in Conference-Crime @miriamyvega & @aspield As a tribute to the late Mr. Covey, a visionary who realized that managers never read more than seven bullet points, allow me to present to you, “The seven habits of highly effective International […]
Ok, once and for all let’s get this straight. There are clinical psychologists who see patients, have couches, snort cocaine, and trace everything back to your mother. Then there are research psychologists. They have no patients, the only place they have a couch is in their living room, […]
An eminent social philosopher of the “Guns and Roses” School named Slash once observed, “Being a rock star is the intersection of who you are and who you want to be”. If only his level of introspection had rubbed off on Axl…but that’s an issue for a later […]
As a working mother, my immediate awareness extends to what meetings I have today, the resolution to the latest office crises, the next presentation I have to make, whether my husband or I are meeting the babysitter, and whether my toddler is testing the theory that he can […]
I have been told repeatedly that I need to start a blog. My experiences on the road are filled with screwy business trip hilarity. My wacky world of non-profits could be a “real world” show. You think celebrity Apprentice (which I have seen live) is tough? Got nothing […]
