Posted in Life on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
After 15 years of driving, I received my first traffic ticket. 7:00am, making a right onto Riverside Drive. Silly me. “Everyone knows you can’t make a right onto Riverside Drive up here,” said the cop. Well, I guess what she meant to say was “everyone (who’s a mind reader) knows you can’t make a right [...]
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Posted in Life on August 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I have not been to a formal audition in almost a decade. I’ve been separated from that world of being watched and judged for so long that I barely remember what it was like. I’ve been searching for opportunities to teach yoga and do some writing. I know I am in a competitive market – [...]
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Posted in Life on August 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The picture to the left is the Chinese symbol for “crisis”. It is comprised of two other symbols – danger + opportunity. This is especially poignant to me as I have taken several big risks in the past few years, and often found myself in a state of crisis – a point where I felt [...]
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Posted in Life on August 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Everyday I am amazed by Facebook, Linked-in, My Space, etc. In the past few months I have had bunches of people contact me after finding me on-line after many years. And the sites make it so easy to just fire off an email, say hello, check in. I have had several lives since leaving my [...]
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Posted in Life on August 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Me too. I’ve been wondering for about 3 months. I have never seen a system so complicated. I just don’t get it. NYS gets MONEY for having people register their cars here. And NYS needs money – they have quite a few things that need improving. I read a great quote yesterday that I am [...]
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Posted in Life on August 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I had a professor at Darden, Elliot Weiss, who taught operations. In class he made one very simple statement that I think about all the time – “What gets measured gets done.” We have performance reviews to keep us on task. We have bank accounts and investment returns to track our wealth. We have health [...]
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Posted in Life on August 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My friends Trevin and Kristi are visiting for the week. They are moving to NYC and looking for their own space to start September 1st. Tonight we went to Jo Allen’s for dinner and then over to Smith’s bar (a great little divey place with a very funny waitstaff and good music.) We then went [...]
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Posted in Life on August 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I saw an old friend this week – meaning I’ve known him for a long time, not that he’s old. And I must admit that his most recent job has beaten him down, considerably. I understand the feeling. I’ve had jobs like this – too many. He’s much more subdued than usual, he’s looking at [...]
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Posted in Life on August 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Instead of going into the office today, my wonderful boss, his equally-wonderful wife, and I went to the New York International Gift show at the Javitz Center. We don’t exactly work in the gift industry but we do work in retail and there were a variety of products that could suit our business. I can [...]
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Posted in Life on August 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
On Sunday. I had one of those days that made me gitty about New York. It was gorgeous weather, after some rather frightening rainstorms during the week, and my friend Monika called me to say she was walking across town through the park and wanted to have lunch at the a cafe on the Hudson [...]
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