Continuing our October theme of DARE GATHER and REGROUP, I want to bring another amazing book to your attention: The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains By Nicholas Carr. So, has the internet and all these high-tech bits of progress shortchanged our brain power? Some experts, such as Jonah Lehrer, for... »
Following our theme this month of DARE GATHER and REGROUP, I am still pondering our online connection situation. Women over 40 are just as liable to be overwhelmed by the sometimes shallow distractions of Facebook, Twitter, text messages, video streams, etc., as the younger generations. We become overloaded, and have little time for what... »
So, my over-40 women friends, what is underneath the new myriad ways to connect: cellphones, text messages, Facebook updates and Twitter tweets? We humans have a need, a yearning for connection, that is surely the underlying attraction going on here. And it does serve our purpose in the business world – never have we... »
The remnants of my girlfriend’s vegetable garden are in their final days of creative energy: the zucchinis are hanging in, the potatoes are fully ripened (if you can use that term with a potato!) and the rest – the tomatoes, basil, beans, etc, are done. Where they grew so bountifully a few short weeks... »
