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Let’s talk about the abbreviated language of our lives. On the back window of my car, I have a bumper sticker that says HLS. A friend was getting in the car and asked what it meant. When I told her Harvard Law School, she said, “Sheesh, for what you pay for her to go there, you would think they would do bumper stickers that write the whole thing out.” Even though Sarah’s dad pays (bless him), I saw her point and ...read more So, Freesia Lane is a year old today. Yikes. Happy Birthday to me. My goal was to write it for a year to get me writing on a daily (minus the weekends) basis and to see if I could find a voice before doing my book that has been marinating in the back of my head for a long, long time. So, because I’m a maudlin, weepy-eyed kind of woman, I was thinking about how Freesia Lane came to be and what ...read more Google has a motto, “Don’t be evil.” When Google was first growing they were concerned about cliques and groups forming with different agendas and the resulting demise that the growth and resulting ‘groups’ would cause the company. They assembled some peeps together from different segments of the company and charged them with coming up with a motto for the company that would ensure they didn’t lose their cohesive culture. “Cohesive Culture” in a company. Hmmm. The group came up with things ...read more Oxford Dictionary has announced that the word of the year is Unfriend. What to do with this? Unfriend – verb – To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site such as Facebook. I’m not sure what to do with this. To give some perspective, last year’s word of the year was Hypermile. “Hypermiling” was coined in 2004 by Wayne Gerdes, who runs a gas saving website. “Hypermiling” or “to hypermile” is to attempt to maximize gas mileage by ...read more We need to talk about email. I need to talk about email. I tracked this past week and realize that I get approximately 600-800 emails per day. No wonder my to do list is longer than my life span. It’s out of control and the truth is that I spend all my day answering emails instead of doing new initiatives personally and professionally. Not ok. So, I sat down to figure it out. Then I went to lunch with a friend ...read more This is not my blog today. My friend, Liz Neumark’s blog is on Huffington Post. I have guest blogged for her on her company’s Web site. When I read this blog, I knew I had to put it up on my blog. Since reading it, I have noted five personal keyless ignitions in my life. And, now that I recognize them, they become all the more powerful. I might add that I have the same feature in my Audi SUV. Problem ...read more It came to me last night as I was reloading Millenium Me (can you believe that’s the name of what houses all that I have in my computer?) on an old computer for the fifth time in a month in hopes that the difficulty I was having would mysteriously disappear with the Welcome to Windows screen. I don’t need to share with you that it didn’t. I will share with you that I hate it when I have a default ...read more I have a facebook account, and I’m sick of it. I thought it was really cool at first; getting in touch with high school people I hadn’t seen since we graduated THIRTY NINE YEARS AGO. Looking at pictures of them now and realizing how they have or haven’t changed was really entertaining for a little while. But the truth is that even if I squint really hard, I still don’t recognize them, and they are as far away from our senior ...read more I start today’s entry with the following link from Twitter that my friend Paula sent me. http://www.flickr.com/photos/fhashemi/sets/72157619758530748/show. I ask you to go and look at the pictures. Better than any news photos, they come from within the news that is happening. They don’t lie, and they will move a nation. Please watch the entire slide show. They all risk their lives to give it to us, the least we can do is watch it. I remember being around George Soros when the ...read more |
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