Over a week and a half ago, Kanye West literally dropped the mic on stage to attend to a family emergency. The crisis being that Kim Kardashian, his wife, had been gagged, bound and held at gunpoint in her Paris hotel. As the reporting goes, over a million […]
She had fallen asleep early that night wondering what tomorrow would bring. She had no hopes. She had no fears. It was just a feeling of what if. What if anything. What if nothing. She knew that maybe she wanted something but had no ideas as to […]
This week Nobel prizes were announced and there was a collective, global wide gasp when it was put forth that Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel prize for literature. Bob Dylan! I immediately asked if he had written a book lately. Nope. He won for his songwork throughout the […]
This past weekend, I got to play dress up. I’m one of those ladies that almost always wears a dress and heels to work. I wear dresses on the weekend as well. I love gettimg dressed up. Yet, I don’t tend to wear makeup. I’ve got pretty good, […]
As a woman who grew into multiple executive positions over the past decade I learned quickly that introductions tell you much about what you are about to encounter next. Early in my career I somehow became a lightning rod for certain political fractions, that I had no clue […]
A few decades ago there was a television show called Different Strokes that featured Gary Coleman as the cute kid in an inter-racial adoption family. The show seems to have been doomed in that many of its stars had really hard lives after the show ended and several […]
I woke up this morning unexpectedly thinking about a dinner I had a few years back. It was a good dinner but it had all been a set up. Let me explain. There was this young woman who had worked for me for little less than one year. […]
Clowns are creepy. We all get that. Some five year olds out there may not get weirded out by clowns. But they are the minority. Not that I have any hard data on this. It is just my gut feeling. I personally met a clown once. He nearly […]
This past weekend, the television show Saturday Night Live premiered it’s 31st season with a non-stop parody of the Trump-Clinton debate. At one point weekend update skit newscasters referred to Trump and Clinton as a choice between Tang or Prunes. I laughed not because it was particularly witty […]
As a New Yorker, I have been exposed to food trucks a long time ago. We have had everything in trucks. According to some internet historians, New York City started having food trucks way back in 1691. Well, they were really push carts. But you get the […]