Forget trying to lose weight over the holidays. It’s not going to happen. But a very good goal is to not gain weight over the holidays. Well, to not gain weight but also to not miss out on fun and…OMG…holiday cookies…the most amazing treats in the world. Oh, and to be social is so much…
DetailsIt actually should seem as no surprise that Oxford Dictionary just announced that “post-truth” is its 2016 word of the year, a word it said “questions the concept of facts themselves.” Your take on the word depends on your take on the world (speaking of post-truth). Some may point to a singular source of Trump’s campaign…
DetailsI’m off to speak at a school today as part of the Black Star Project Youth Motivation Program, which has me thinking about how triply impressed I am by Tammera Homes, and how sticking to a dream and mission over the long haul yields results. I’m talking about something Tammera said 10 years ago when…
DetailsIt was a Friday evening in April, 1999. Sarah* and her husband Paulo were out for their regular Friday night “date” night. Sarah had started her cycle that morning. It was two weeks after undergoing what was now an obviously unsuccessful intrauterine insemination, four months after Sarah and Paulo had begun working with a fertility…
DetailsAgree, disagree, new ideas, new perspectives…that’s what happens when you get four really smart people with clearly articulated positions on a stage together with a brave moderator—a basic model of Chicago Ideas Week. I found myself saying “oh, yeah…he has a point” and “oh, right, I can see what he is saying too…” In politics…
DetailsAs a marketer, I like things to be simple. Easily communicated. Three points. Or, even better, one succinct point that explains everything and gives you a clear call to action. Perhaps that is what I was yearning for in my decision to take three hours out of the middle of the day to go to…
DetailsOne of my clients wrote a book on grandparenting. He’s a grandparenting activist, volunteering to set up grandparent programs at secular and religious schools across Chicagoland. At 88 he has several thousand followers on Facebook and Twitter and is an active blogger. For grandparents day in September, he ran a first person story from a…
Details“Behavior makes sense from the actor’s perspective or they wouldn’t do it. -Dr. Ellen Langer This quote rings a bell for me about how people can look at the same thing and see it totally differently… And how that is absolutely, positively wonderful, particularly in terms of teams and problem-solving for the world: The more…
DetailsLet me tell you, the embarrassment and shame of being thought of as a mom in the workplace, even when it’s self-inflicted, is awful! This started with anti-racism This all started in June when people were mean to Tim Nudd of Adweek (on Adweek’s AdFreak blog), someone whose writing I really enjoy and whom I…
DetailsAppleDoesNotFall.com is a first-hand, primary resource for historians, students, academics, anthropologists, genealogists, or anyone with interest in Soviet culture, Soviet Jewish immigration, families with roots in that part of the world and in this period of history, culture clash, and the implications for relations with Russia today. The author, Bena Shklyanoy, presented about the site and…
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