My sister’s birthday is this weekend, and my niece’s, too – lucky sis went into labor on her birthday. Birthday’s have always been important to my sister. They’re also important to me but they take on some kind of weird, mystical importance to her, as if by constructing the perfect birthday celebration, she will, through …
Month: February 2018
Oh, Mo-om!
I had lunch the other day with a young person whose mother had asked that I meet her train at Grand Central and make sure she safely get to the bus from Port Authority that would carry her to an overnight in New Jersey. For those of you unfamiliar with New York City, this entailed …
Icebreaking
I was working on a client-discovery guide this morning and typed the word “icebreaking” then stopped to reflect on the derivation of this term. Luckily Google was up and with one click I discovered that the term has been around in similar usage for several hundred years. To paraphrase Phrases.org.uk, it started as far back …
Off the Shelf: X
I bought X because I had read another of Klosterman’s books, But What If We’re Wrong, which I bought because the cover was upside down. The upside-down-ness caught my attention because it reminded me of my early years in bookselling when our window-dresser (who really wasn’t a window-dresser but, appropriately for a review of book …
Letting Go of Success
So many articles out there on how to be successful – what to read to be successful. The best advice from successful people. The ways to succeed at anything. Decisions that will “crush” your success. Success is a two-edged sword. It feels so good when you attain it but it’s fleeting – success, like happiness …