Send-off party to welcome mat

Last year a friend gave me Guy Kawasaki’s book Enchantment. In the world of me, a person typically not all that interested in reading about marketing, the subtitle – The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions – was the big selling point. I’m not a fan of ‘brand’...

An Open Letter to Arianna Huffington

Dear Ms. Huffington: The other day I was trying to locate something among newspaper clips of my work and I found an article that begins like this: “In a land where perpetually blue skies and impeccable beaches serve as the backdrop for the highest mountain peak in the...

The Return of Lipstick

I went to get my eyebrows threaded the other day and it jarred a memory that made me smile. A few summers ago over an outdoor dinner next to the Hudson River, I was flirtatiously trying to convince a man I had the hots for that I wasn’t high maintenance. “Uh, Nance,...

Our Evolving Beauty

What makes us women? What makes us beautiful? There is a scene in the movie Funny Girl where Fanny Brice, played by Barbra Streisand, marvels at her infant daughter and exclaims to her close friend, “She’s pretty, isn’t she?” We know what that means coming from Fanny,...

An eye on love

I’m ever the observer. It’s disconcerting to some, but it makes me a sharper coach and keeps my writing honest. I’m wondering, though, if underlying it all is a craving to be seen. What prompted this thinking is my reaction to a couple of movies — one old (A...

Ah, utopia

GAME PLAN: I’ve got it all figured out. Don’t you? My bank account is overflowing. My body is never creaky. Not a speck of dust in my home. I floss daily. And oh, the sex. My happiness arches like a rainbow over my perfect, polished life. Take your problems walking....