A few years back, John and I stayed in a beatiful bed and breakfast in Amsterdam as part of a European vacation. We were pretty worn out from an overly aggressive agenda in France, so by the time we got to Amsterdam, we accomplished close to nothing on our list: no boat ride on the canal, no Van Gogh museum,…
Many of my friends are journalists — reporters, editors, photographers, the many things people do to deliver you the news every day. But with advertising drying up and Wall Street hammering on news organizations that mostly still seem flummoxed by how to make money online, that’s a tough place to make a living. A graphic designer started keeping track of all…
It would be hard to write a blog about change without mentioning the historic events in Washington this week. But while it’s easy to hold up a “Change” poster at a campaign rally, real change can be hard. It would seem particularly so in politics, where not only…
I can’t stop reading about Flight 1549. You can’t even call it a plane crash — it was more an unplanned landing in the Hudson River. It would be easy to spin the story to make it fit with my blog’s theme of transformation. The Times today has a story about how a brush with death can change survivors of something…
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If you’re humming “Love the One You’re With,” you’re on the right track. Even if you are dating yourself a bit. On a December work trip to London, I picked up Red magazine. I’d never read Red, but it appears to be a British version of Glamour or Elle. Since the nice people at Hachette Filipacchi, which owns Red, apparently…
Tonight when I was at the gym — no, this isn’t relevant to the story, I just want it out there that I worked out — I caught a story of transformation on the evening news. CBS frames a life change in economic terms — a woman who lost her six-figure job and decided to start a business teaching kids…
Eight years ago, I had one of the worst weeks of my life. One day I was laid off. The next day my mom was diagnosed with cancer. I was newly married, a new home owner, and the primary bread winner in our household. I’d left a newspaper with a job-for-life promise to its employees to pursue a new opportunity,…
One of the cliches that stuck with me from business school is that industries change either through evolution or revolution. I think that applies to people, as well, and I find both kinds of change interesting. Last weekend, the New York Times ran an article that expressed well some of what I’ve been feeling lately — that society gives so much attention…
