Posted in business, career, economy, finance, financing, investing, job, loans, personal finance, politics on September 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I was going to post about myself, my life, and my observations about the world around me today. However, I’m hearing so many people say that they don’t understand how this current economic crisis is going to hit them personally, that I wanted to do my part to try to get the word out about [...]
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Posted in art, creative, creativity, education, health, medicine, music, philanthropy on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How would you like a half a million bucks with no strings attached? All you need to do is be a genius, and by genius I mean someone who is “creative, original, and has potential to make important contributions in the future.” The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awards 25 people every year with [...]
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Posted in friendship, love, relationships on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I always find myself grinning from ear to ear at weddings, despite that the idea of marriage is a bit terrifying to me on a personal level. I cringe when I hear people say things like “well she’ll be able to keep him in line” or vice versa. Or “ever since he came into her [...]
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Posted in vacation on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Given my busy week at work, a wedding in Seattle over the weekend, and then a last-minute business trip to Salt Lake City, I’ll be away from this blog for about a week. I’ll be back to posting on Wednesday, September 24th. Until then, finding out what I’m doing at twitter.com/christanyc. TTFN…
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Posted in art, books, creativity, economy, education, jazz, music, New York City, politics, society on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I gave up my horn about 10 years ago because truth be told I wasn’t even mediocre, and even if I practiced for hours a day I’d never be great. I want to be a lot things, but I have no intention of getting in the habit of spending my time being mediocre. I love [...]
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Posted in finance, media, news, newspapers, technology, youth on September 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With the markets in turmoil, it’s easy to think that the sky is falling. For many, jobs are being lost, retirement plans postponed, and savings and investment values plummeting like lead balloons. All this unrest is yielding one very positive result – the growing interest and understanding about the financial system by very young people [...]
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Posted in career, personality. psychology, schedule, school, work on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On the Myers-Briggs scale I am an ENFP, Extrovert Intuitive Feeling Perceiver. The description of that personality type is so like me that for a moment I thought my mother had written it. A lot of people have a decent balance on each of the four levels and just tend to favor one characteristic over [...]
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Posted in art, books, friendship, health, music, New York City, relationships, wellness on September 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I work out at the gym in my office building. It’s nothing glamorous but it has what I need: a precor machine, easy to use weight machines, a rower, and clean bright rooms for classes. It also has a view that reminds me every day of the preciousness of life: it overlooks the 9/11 site. [...]
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Posted in communication, corporation, culture, job, leadership on September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My friend, Kelly, always had a saying in graduate school that she’d repeat whenever someone in class decided to spout off their belief system to chew up class time and to hear themselves talk. She’d say something like, “why do people think it’s okay to state opinion as fact?” Today at work I was reminded [...]
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