What do you do when the page is blank? As I look outside my window and see the mountains of surrounding, deep, clean, crisp, clear white snow banks — I think about how many things I love that are white. New clean white sheets on a freshly made bed, fluffy white mashed potatoes, white jeans, [...]
All of the attention on “social” and “new media” as well as the general opinion that the “old-fashioned newspaper is dead” have created a sense of abandonment among us traditional public relations professionals. It’s not that we don’t experiment and embrace change, of course we need to be open and positioned to capitalize on all [...]
You may be able to recognize a gender difference in the two responses when I ask my son and daughter the same question: Question: How was school today? Son’s Answer: Fine. Daughter’s Answer: WELL, it all began when I decided to have a granola bar for breakfast….{insert 10 minutes of continued subjective monologue, focusing on [...]
Some things never change — for example, my aversion to our home phone ringing at any time of day. It's true, I cringe and sigh in total exasperation every single time the phone rings. I don’t mind the blinking on the answering machine at all (because “YES! I MISSED a call! Great!) But when the phone rings, [...]
So here is the cold, hard truth: On the exterior, I look my age to the outside world (best case, “middle-aged”). This is a fact I accept, sometimes. (I don’t buy Oil of Olay, for example, but I do spend a great deal of money to camouflage the undesirable natural color of my hair). On [...]
I am re-telling the horror stories of other teenagers, their mistakes, and long-term consequences of careless or thoughtless technology use.
...the horror stories I hear from other parents and see on the news surrounding teens, texting, videochats – cause me some anxiety.
