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Well, after so many years writing about the 50 plus market, I went ahead and did it. I turned 50 yesterday. When my family had asked me what kind of party I’d like, it had been so many years since I’d actually “had” a birthday party that I had to give it some [...]
When the album, Thriller, came out, I was living in Toronto, paying $465/month rent for a 2-bedroom apartment in a triplex, with an older couple living downstairs. I lived there with my sister and we painted our walls charcoal with white trim, the fireplace grill and radiators gold, and added tons of plants. [...]
My childhood memories of my dad center around his masculinity. Dad puttering in the garden, building a stone BBQ, trimming a tree, building a swing set. Dad renovating our home, rebuilding a kitchen, creating a patio, finishing the basement, building a mud room. He wore Old Spice aftershave. Always had his pocketknife ready [...]
What is serendipity? It is a fortunate and unexpected discovery, especially when you were actually looking for something else. You know, driving down a country lane looking for a fruit stand and you come across a hideaway restaurant and enjoy a most delicious and unexpected meal. Serendipity is also the name of a [...]
I’ve been relatively quiet the past few weeks as I’ve been a bit overwhelmed with taking care of my daughter’s healing after suffering a really bad broken leg and ankle. However, watching her start to become a bit more mobile got me thinking, in a bizarre way, about the LAUSD budget cut crisis [...]
Last Sunday was not usual. In the afternoon I took my daughter to a birthday party for the son of a dear friend. A Go-Kart party. And it didn’t go well. My daughter got into a bad crash and broke her leg badly. (Broken tibia, fibula, dislocated ankle, full leg cast for 8 [...]
Out of economic distress, comes ingenuity.
A Twitter tweet (from the brilliant Guy Kawasaki) brought this to my attention this morning. A very innovative business card idea from Lego, right out of the pages of American Girl “Just Like You” dolls. On an equally inventive note, next week I’m going to the launch [...] Unemployment in California has hit 9%. That is just plain bad. So I can’t understand why so many politicians are trying to put the brakes on Obama’s stimulus package. At the Democratic caucus, Obama reiterated the point of a stimulus package …to…spend money to create jobs. And with so much money going toward infrastructure rebuilding, I can’t [...]
Globally, many countries are having to take stake in life-blood companies — in the US, banks like Bank of America, Citibank; in the auto industry, Chrysler and GM — and, well, you’ve read the news. The more money that gets infused into the failing businesses, the more nationalization will be taking place. As [...]
Amidst another day of layoff announcements (almost 72,000 announced today, Bloody Monday)– Home Depot, Nextel/Sprint, Caterpillar (!),Deere, ING, just to name a few, I received a letter that caught my attention.
A few months before the bottom fell out of the economic world, AIG Direct had acquired 21st Century Insurance. Since I’m a [...] |
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