I love Betsy Bauer’s Google Doodle today celebrating International Women’s Day. Bauer has only been with Google six weeks. But, as Rebecca Jarvis of CBS This Morning noted, this opportunity is typical of Google where good work trumps hierarchy. Here is Betsy’s first Doodle posted on February 5th in honour of Mary Leakey’s 100th birthday. And [...]
Republican control
Originally published in August 2012 in Blog
Life support
Originally published in July 2012 in Blog
coined this saying in my twenties, and believed it through that entire decade of my life. Back then, men my age reacted to me in two ways: sexual heat or professional competitiveness, but usually they offered the package deal. Keeping an eye firmly planted on me (and my rotating outfits), they monitored the pace of [...]
What would you do if you were unafraid?
Originally published in June 2012 in Blog
Fotoshop by Adobé
Originally published in January 2012 in Blog
It’s just a phase
Originally published in October 2011 in Blog
Journalists go through phases. During and right after I left Elle Magazine, my beat was lipstick. I was the beauty editor. I reported on shade ranges, hero ingredients and cupids bows for years until I finally managed to write my way out of the pink ghetto. Beauty editor: I looked the part, but didn’t think [...]
Hot off the press
Originally published in August 2011 in Blog
Below is the “blogified” version of an article of mine that just hit the newstands. If you want to read the original piece (pictured above), Go “clickety click” right here. But first, I’d like to add a preamble … if you don’t mind. The world is sick. I mean, why do we insist on pushing people’s [...]
Rise and shine
Originally published in July 2011 in AppliedArtsMag.com
Change for change’s sake is hard to resist, especially when mastering a split focus has become such a badge of honour in today’s digitally driven world. Still, some endeavours bear a sweeter tasting fruit with a long-term approach. Wine making is one. Branding is another, or so say the principals at Up Inc., an award-winning [...]
Hot off the press
Originally published in July 2011 in Blog
Out of sight
Originally published in April 2011 in Blog
Updated on April 10: scroll to bottom I spent four years at Queen’s University shouting in Gaelic at football games, waiting in line at the campus pub and preparing for slide tests (I was an art history major). In between socializing, two ideas mentioned in passing during my painting seminars shot up like flares: Men [...]
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