The flip side

Just loved Tribes by Seth Godin. One of my favorite passages: It’s four a.m. and I can’t sleep. So I’m sitting in the lobby of a hotel in Jamaica, checking my email. A couple walks by, obviously on their way to bed, having pushed the idea of vacation...

Here’s Stacy London …

A year after a terrific interview with stylist Stacy London for Game Plan last spring, I checked in for some more wisdom this week from the co-host of TLC’s What Not To Wear. The makeover show begins its seventh season tonight and while I’m looking forward...

Rethinking legacy

I don’t know which part of me — the writer or the life coach — derived more joy from my conversation with social worker Sandy Meyers and teacher Sherman Taishoff about the late Beatrice Taishoff’s ethical will. We conversed around a table at...

Journalism

So many wonderful things I could say about Steve Lopez’s book, The Soloist, but I am still processing it for a variety of reasons. Read it in a day, just couldn’t stop turning the pages. Here’s a favorite passage, but it requires some set-up. Lopez...

Vision board makeover

I began a whole new vision board this weekend and I’m so excited about it. What had begun as sort of a collage had grown into a visually stimulating, but unfocused array of images. I took that one down, saved a few of its key pieces, and created a new one using...