I love living in San Francisco. So much energy, creativity, big shit happening (in my best Ab Fab voice). The downside of so much shit happening: SO MUCH PRESSURE to go big. But how often do we stop to ask, "Is bigger better right now?" A lot of us are sitting on ideas that could …
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An Open Letter to Adam Werbach and Andy Ruben: Growth Strategy Ideas for Yerdle
Dear Adam and Andy, First, I love your new platform Yerdle. I'm a marketer and a mom (with a decent amount of disposable income) who teaches her kids that shopping is not a sport and that "used" is often as good as new. Like you both, I've seen the light and know we have to …
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A Return To The Garden
And just like that, a year passes and spring returns revealing the gardens we once planted. Asking us to come back and start again. But always from a place that has grown more than we could have ever imagined. I can't believe that last year at this time my father had 25 days to live. …
Don’t. Just Don’t.
"So, what did you do today?" What an oppressive question. I ask it of myself over and over and over throughout any given day. If you're like me, you wake up on the weekend, especially for those of us white collar folks in the crowd, with a to-do list as long as Santa's nice list. …
Home Sweet Homestead
This weekend was the best I've had in months except for the previous weekend which I spent with a friend in the Redwoods helping her clear land during the day, and playing violin and piano together throughout the dark evening. Most of you who know me well, or all 20 of you who read my …
Laser Focus on What Matters…To Me
Lately everyone I talk to seems to be going through some transition, transformation, or major life challenge. People are struggling with relationships, finances, career choices...you know the drill. For those of us privileged enough to make it to middle-age, life tends to get bigger, more intense, and the decisions we make are now more important …
Hubris Thy Name is Facebook
Now that Facebook is down, it seemed a good time to share my thoughts on a pretty serious and popular topic. Thank the Lord for Twitter because where else would we have gotten the breaking dialogue on this exciting, or as some people might see it, tragic outage. First there was alqaeda (okay fake alqaeda) …
Dear Inner Monologue, Please Shut Up and Let Me Get on With it.
Is that inner monologue eating you up? Does the sense of "esprit d'escalier" plague you with the things you wish you'd thought to say the last time you encountered an ex-lover, current boss, or irritating friend? Many of us chatter to ourselves all the time coming up with great point/counterpoint dialogue to hash through past …
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10 Reasons Why Vacations Matter
Wow, what’s with the furor about the first lady taking a vacation with her youngest daughter to Spain. After all she just went to Andalusia, a relatively inexpensive, unexplored by Americans, region in Spain (I wish she’d taken me with her). It’s not like she went to the South of France. Clipped from: http://www.monstersandcritics.com (share …
Kontraband Kombucha
Our society is officially uptight! In case you hadn't noticed. Kombucha pulled from the shelves because the alcohol levels, low as they are, are unstable. And I thought I was getting away with drinking all day at work. Damn! Just in case you're seeing pink elephants without your K fix, you can brew it yourself …
Mary Gilbert 