I used to say “no one liked the smartest kid in the class”. I didn’t mean it . . . exactly. I did mean it “kind of”. I certainly said it often enough. In one blog I went so far...
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The popular strategy for bad behavior seems to be to blame it on the New York Times. When Harvey Weinstein’s behavior was first outed by the New York Times last week, his then legal adviser, Lisa Bloom, blasted the “defamatory”...
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The other evening I sat with a client in my office in a now empty building. For only the second time in eight years, the building lost power. As we sat by my one and only window, we muscled through...
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I used to be a huge Brown’s fan. As I have often confessed, my first two cars were orange and brown . . . . on purpose. And those are not pretty colors for a car. It was mostly the...
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Thank you speeches are hard. They are hard to write and they are certainly hard to listen to, especially over and over and over again. Thank you speeches are boring. We the audience don’t really care about shout outs to...
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Not Much to UPS. It should not be my burden to pay for their inadequacy to do their job. It seemed simple enough. Seven glasses needed to go from Tucson to Akron, from storage to my cupboard. Years ago I...
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It was just 10:20 on a Saturday morning. I had worked with a client, worked out, and was now running the dreaded errands. A dozen cupcakes was next on my to – do list.  I pulled up to cupcake castle,...
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“Someone call Victoria because her secret’s out,” is my favorite Tweet on the subject of bra straps that are seen by the outside world. Is the same person who is so anxious to tell a stranger that her bra strap...
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I walked into the tack room at Miraval, the renowned equine center of the world . . . or at least the southwest part of the world. It struck me that others would find it funny that the room with...
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Look outside your window. It is the 8th day of August. If you look outside a window in NE Ohio you should see sunshine. You may see green grass, flowers, maybe even a lawn being cut. If people are in...
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