Inside a Woman’s Purse

My purse is a mystery to me. It starts out weighing approximately 16 ounces holding basic necessities like my wallet, keys and cell phone but over time, the contents multiply and diversify, expanding and exploding gradually over time until one day (today) I pick it up to put it over …

Twitter Train

I think that Twitter has conditioned my brain to think in segmented, cryptic, less than 160-character thoughts. Pavlov’s dog, maybe. I don’t know. Thought trains are weird, aren’t they? One word in one thought triggers a whole new thought. For example, right now I am sitting at my desk admiring …

Placebos and Presents

I subscribe to Seth Godin’s blog and today he published a post about the Placebo Effect which I found really interesting. He wrote: We’ve come to understand that the placebo effect is real. If we believe we’re going to get better, perform better, make the sale, etc., it often occurs …

Project Me.

I have been given the task of writing my bio for a work project and I have avoided doing it since I …