A week after Obama’s win and I have to admit that I am still ambivalent. Yes, I voted for Obama but I couldn’t participate in the wild excitement that swept over the country. The...
The economy is tanking, your 401K is in the toilet and your house is losing value faster than the dollar. With all the volitility in the financial market, what in the world should you be investing...
Studies have proven that lighting, décor, smell, noise level, temperature, ergonomics, and color can all affect how you feel. If your environment's draining you dry, try these tips for a...
I have had it up to here with people trying to steal my intellectual property! Over the past couple of years different people have attempted to steal my logo and business name, my website content and...
This particular topic is the cause for frequent arguments in my household. With the seemingly omnipresence of the Internet - everyone is online, often living out a completely separate life via social...
Dear Debra: I’m 29. My husband and I have an amazing 3-year-old. I’ve worked part-time since he was born. Now, not only do we need my full-time income, I’m dying to dive back into...
When John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential nominee, I wrote that "Whatever your politics, Sarah Palin is...
"I don't want to come home" I whined to my new husband Steve, lying on the warm white sand of Kalapaki Beach, the spot where a year and a half back I had decided I wanted to trade domestic...
It’s a no-brainer that our decisions have consequences – the question is do our actions reflect our knowledge of this simple fact? It was the know-it-all comment by a...
On any day of the year, an estimated 18 million American suffer from depression; and this statistic was compiled before our nation’s current economic crisis! Living just ten minutes away from...
I don't know about you, but I could use a break from the constant barrage of bad financial news this week and from trying to read and absorb every detail of the economic crisis. I am going to ignore,...
I’ve worked full-time from my home since 1992 and can’t imagine doing it any other way. Whether you work full time out of your home, occasionally telecommute, catch up on work in the...
Many of the posts on this site for leading lasses in the professional realm focus on how to network within our communities. Any wonder? It’s a networking site! But what about those of us who...
A growing trend in many non-profits is to create young professional networks in order to get young adults more involved in the organization. I am a member of several of these groups and I strongly...
Swimming lesson #2 - Your personal best is the only thing that counts. This is not for the softies – although my questions are somewhat soft. Is winning the only goal even...
One of the greatest assets of a business, the products it sells or the services it provides, is its trademark. The trademark of a business is what identifies your business or products and sets them...
“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.” --Virginia Woolf I recently moved into a new apartment, just across...
Every Thursday at 6 p.m. the owner of a pasta shop parks her truck outside a house in my neighborhood and sells freshly made ravioli, cut pasta, roasted asparagus, ricotta cannelloni, tomato sauce,...
The fact is that you won’t get much of a work-out by staying dry and walking around the edge of a pool contemplating whether to swim or not to swim. The same goes for work...
I have been a little lax in posting lately, mainly due to the beginning of grad school. For those who have been following this blog for a while, you may...
On Wednesday, September 3, two women in New York sent an email to 40 friends asking them to share their thoughts about Sarah Palin's candidacy. By Monday, they had received nearly 15,000 responses....
I was in Adelaide last week presenting to the CPA Women in Business network. Apart from the diverse backgrounds and interests of the participants, I was most impressed that on a cold winter's...
This is my horoscope for the month of February 2008 – the month that I resigned from my job as a national sales and marketing manager to write full-time – I thought it would be worth...
I was at the gym last week and after my workout I went to the locker room to change and shower as usual. In the 30 minutes I was there, three different pregnant women came and went. On my way home...
Whatever your politics, Sarah Palin is good for women. Particularly working mothers, and especially those with young children. Last night's rousing speech by Governor Palin at the Republican...
DIY (“do it yourself”) kits abound at Home Depot and Lowe’s. These days, people are so used to doing things themselves that, when it comes to retaining a contractor to do home...
People with high stress levels are more likely to have heart attacks and strokes, respond poorly to flu vaccines and catch colds more easily than those with low levels of work or interpersonal...
Everyone seems to be losing their job these days. It’s a professional rite-of-passage. Maybe you’ve been fired, laid off, or moved to a less-desirable role? Maybe you’re just...
I want my work to speak for itself…but actually, what I really want is my work to market, publicize, and promote itself, leaving me to just, well, work. But the reality...
Whoever said ignorance is bliss couldn’t have been referring to bank account numbers and gas prices. No matter how hard I try to ignore them, the numbers (or what I imagine them to be in my...