“I’ve been in a severe, to put it mildly, ‘rut,’ for the last few years, and my life leading up to those years, I did not use to set myself up for success the way I should have.” -L. I’m a big fan of people creating the “luck” they need, but really by “luck,” what…
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“…in life, as in other mysteries, there are no answers, only questions…part of the process…is to refine the question.”- Norman Mailer I recently read a masterful re-telling of the Cinderella story by Tanith Lee. It’s long, and very worth it; a much darker, much angrier and really quite sad version of the story. Read it, tell me…
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I’ve been bad about blogging recently, I know, but there’s been so much fun, real life stuff going on. However, I apologize. Anyways, you people (snort) know that if you want me, you can always email me (carlotazee@gmail.com), and like Batman, I’ll be the organized nag resource you need. Or something. Anyhoo, just this morning, after rising…
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Oh my. This hand grenade of a phrase was tossed in the middle of an otherwise muted, low-key, innocuous conversation I recently had with an old friend. We were making plans to do some outdoorsy activities and suddenly in the middle of everything, my friend gazed solemnly into the distance and said, portentously, “Well, Carlota,…
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I’m not one of those people who dwell, with misty-eyed nostalgia, on the “golden years” of high school. Dear god, no. I went to Saint Ann’s School, a pretentious artsy private high school, but despite how irritating I find many of my fellow alumni, there are many other aspects of my education which continue to benefit…
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Recently, in a Facebook thread regarding the how/why/WTF of getting started on Twitter, one of the participants noted that it appeared to her, that people who knew why they were on Twitter in the first place, seemed to get the most mileage out of their Twitter accounts. She herself wasn’t sure about what Twitter could…
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“I find that I am often very reserved, so I tend to try and not make a big splash when doing social things. However, I’ve come to find that job hunting tends to be a very social thing in and of itself. That’s really been the biggest hurdle I’ve had to overcome. So searching with…
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It’s Tax Day in North America–I did my taxes recently, and was almost amused when TurboTax basically asked me if I wanted their software to baby-step me through the process, since of course my answer was, “Hell yes, I was a history major, I need all the help I can get!” When it comes to…
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April is National Poetry Month, and my birthday (April 30th), and though it’s only April 9th, I’ve already been truly spoiled. Not only was I mentioned in Latina Magazine (see the photo at the bottom) as a “stylish entrepreneur,” but last night one of my most generous clients, Joan Becht Willette, wrote a poem in my…
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Yesterday, my friend/partner Marie Segares and I survived another day without killing each other recorded our March 2015 Women’s History Month-inspired No Frills Small Business podcast…and I think it was our best one so far! (Not just because at one point I played the Odd Couple theme for Marie and she didn’t deck me.) Given that it was…
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