Category: lifestyle


Day Eight: What's on your hate list?

Day Eight: What's on your hate list?

Leading up to Thanksgiving, each day I will blog about what I’m doing to be more grateful. I invite you to join me, and to share your thoughts, observations, suggestions and ideas. Day Eight: The Hate List Project As part of the Month of Thanksgiving, I shared the Love List Project from the blog Halfway to Normal. The basic concept…

Day Seven: What stops you from being grateful?

Day Seven: What stops you from being grateful?

Leading up to Thanksgiving, each day I will blog about what I’m doing to be more grateful. I invite you to join me, and to share your thoughts, observations, suggestions and ideas. Day Seven: What stops you from being grateful? I know I’m pretty doggone lucky. I know I should be grateful for all my many blessings. But sometimes, let’s…

Improve your relationships in six steps with Keith Ferrazzi

Improve your relationships in six steps with Keith Ferrazzi

As you might know, I’m a fan of Keith Ferrazzi, author of Who’s Got Your Back. On his blog this month, Keith offered six simple steps to improving your relationships. The Relationship Action Plan includes: Creating a list of 100 people who are most important to your success and joy Looking for ways to help people Getting smart about setting goals…

Ann Arbor News reincarnated as annarbor.com

Ann Arbor News reincarnated as annarbor.com

Reincarnation could be described as the ultimate reinvention: in death you leave behind one body and your soul goes on to another life in a new body. Not everyone believes in reincarnation, but it would appear the Newhouse family does, at least in business. Their company, Advance, announced this week that the 174-year-old daily newspaper The Ann Arbor News would…

Changing careers when it's not your idea

Changing careers when it's not your idea

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…