Back in the mid 2000s, the documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock who rose rapidly in fame due to “Super-Size Me”, created a show named 30 Days in which they filmed a person living in someone else’s shoes for 30 days. It was meant to be provocative and more intelligent […]
The little hand vulnerable from birth Gets less and less so The big hand supportive from birth becomes more and more vulnerable Time doesn’t stop Yet we live in time loops Circling back over and over Catching our breath before its gone Trying to fill the sullen dearth […]
Gratitude The year of 2015 has been one of tremendous change for me. Not just one major change, but multitudes of changes. I left my beloved New York for San Francisco. Well, yes and no. I did move out to San Francisco but I was not necessarily […]
I was just in the shower when I was humming The Cure’s most horrific, banal song “It’s Friday I’m in love.” How did the Cure go from goth to sap? Mind boggling. Anyway, once I noticed I was humming that I tried to change my ear worm. Then […]
As a female Hispanic executive I have often faced the dilemmas Sheryl Sandberg discusses in her book Lean In. I have felt the “impostor syndrome” and I have seen women tear each other apart. Then again who hasn’t I mean, rather, who hasn’t seen people just tearing each […]
Break the box Burn that box Banish the box Smash that box Shred the box Scrap the box Pierce the box Pickle that box Punch out the box Stop thinking outside the box For you are still in the Box’s confines The Box must be destroyed And you […]
The last four weeks have been a series of crazy events for me during which I have had to also think of the great attributes of my colleagues of friends as I have been asked to write letters of recommendation on their behalf. It seems to be quite […]
A blue mouse isn’t individualism: Run The bins stand still. She has watched too many action movies lat eat night. She kept turning back to look at the bins expecting an escaped prisoner to jump out and run across the room. She stared at her pretty blue mouse. […]
There is a recent “news story” of a couple that billed their no-show wedding guests that had RSVP yes. This story has many weighing in on whether it is tackier to say you are going to an event and then do not show up (without any apologies beforehand) […]
Beware of the Psychological Chicken Little of the Workplace In some workplaces (ok many these days) there is a sense of fear. There is a fear of being let go and of restructuring. There is even the fear of job promotion as many are afraid they will fail […]