Month: June 2011

Makeup by Margie

I shot my “Learning Annex” video–yes, some of you may be giggling, since quite a few of their titles are insane–but it was super fun: me talking to a camera about stuff I find interesting…bliss! Crucially, I spent the morning getting my face and hair did by Margie Bresciani (www.margiemakeup.com). I attached a photo, taken later…
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June 15, 2011 0

This is for an old friend…

(Someone whom I’ve known since I was a teenager someone whom, when we were both at our respective colleges, I went to visit her, and we spent a weekend drinking and singing Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again” in public, since we thought we were hilarious… till her roommate forcibly made us stop. Yes, that kind…
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June 13, 2011 0

I’m (probably way too) real…

I had a blast last night speaking about 10 quickie ways to jump start yourself  on the transformative process of reinvention at the NewLife Expo…especially given that it was one of my first big speaking engagements, and that for about 5 heart-pounding minutes it looked like nobody would show (sad trumpet noise here)..but then, it happened:…
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June 11, 2011 0

Grrr.

It must be the 95 degree heat here in NYC–plus, all the women who decide that this heat means they can wear ripped up leggings, or bikini tops, or clog-heels (someone, somewhere should get punched in the face for inventing clog-heels. I like to think all creative people are wonderful and necessary, but this one…
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June 9, 2011 0

Learning from

Everyone’s talking about Rep. Weiner’s junk, not to mention his spectacularly bad judgment; its about 100 degrees here in NYC (the cats are all comatose…except occasionally The Kitten stirs himself to smack another cat)


June 8, 2011 0

“me”

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/hottttt-said-the-woman-behind-the-me-photo/?hp I’m not sure what’s more pathetic: that Weiner was at all engaged in chasing women online so flagrantly, given that he’s a MARRIED POLITICIAN…or how desperate he comes across: yikes! All she had to say was how “hottt” he was and…ba-blam! One can only assume how thrilled his wife must be..hope she got in one…
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June 7, 2011 0

And now for a word from our sponsors

I’m enclosing a link to my speaking gig this Friday, June 10 @ 6pm, “Becoming the Hero of Your Life: 10 Steps to Reinvention” (though I have to admit that everytime I check out the list of speakers, I start brooding about what exactly ‘womb yoga dance’ is…but I’m a delicate flower and probably do…
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June 6, 2011 0

For Annie Le

Last night, I happened to visit a neighborhood bar called (what else?) “Winner’s Bar.” I went primarily because it was an obvious dive bar, and I love dive bars and I also savor irony and how can one not love the delicious irony of a dump on Elmhurst Avenue, called “Winner’s Bar?” The bar was exactly…
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June 4, 2011 0

National Donut Day

So today, according to the Interwebs, is National Donut Day (which, interestingly enough, came the day after the  government released the food pyramid’s replacement, the “Nutrition Plate”) and considering I slept about 3 solid hours due to a sick pet and being swamped with work, and the NY Times is reminded me, yet again, that…
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June 3, 2011 0

This morning, I dropped by a branch of my bank (which I refuse to name since it deserves no free advertising whatsoever…yeah, and go ahead and sue me: enjoy a piece of my debt load!) in the Elmhurt section of Queens and was, for a moment, a little surprised to see that all the signs…
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