For the miserables

I could probably choose any random week to address or focus on the schadenfreude all around us, but this one probably got to me because of all the contrarians surfacing around the Facebook IPO. Goodness, you would have thought Mark Zuckerberg created something that...

Risk factors

I’ve had people express confusion or wonder at how seemingly disparate things come together in my head, but sometimes I even have to question it myself. Somehow Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (the Keira Knightley film version), The Social...

Life Coaching Mark Zuckerberg

I enjoy Facebook. I’m quite active on it. Much has been made possible by it. So for the most part, hats off to its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, for his amazing innovation. But, whoa, the young man could bring something more to the table when it comes to listening....

A vote for elite and educated

All this election talk disparaging intellectualism and education right on the heels of a national conversation about the value of education because of the film Waiting for Superman and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s award to the Newark school system makes me...

Barbie’s new journalism career

You know life is good when you make your living writing something this fun. I heard Barbie’s newest career, courtesy of Mattel, is journalist. The next thing I knew a dialogue with Ken was forming in my head. Out spilled references to objectivity in journalism,...