This is a story about being naive.
I’m a naive person, I’ll admit it. Not naive in a “I have a bridge I’m looking into buying” sort of way, but I tend to think the best of people and situations even when the evidence clearly suggests otherwise. I’m inclined to not notice when two of [...]

You may have the worst business model of anything in the world, ever.
I know it’s a cheap and over-used thing, to complain about how bad the post office can be. But I just want to share this super quick.
This morning while juggling my purse, my umbrella, my iPod, my bagged lunch, the contents that [...]

Today I gave my seat to a very pregnant woman on the subway. I was five seats away from the door she entered. She had to pass four strapping young men with no heavy baggage and no obvious limb ailments to get to the open seat.
“Oh, thank you,” she whispered, in that way people [...]

This weekend I’m going camping on the Cape with some old friends from grad school. Good times! I love the outdoors and stuff. Even though I guess I haven’t been to a place with trees since, well, since I paid for the privilege to go apple-picking that one fall. Does Central Park count as nature? [...]

Today while I was leaving the subway, Frank got on his mic and said, “Have a good day, everyone, and an unforgettable weekend.”
I’m starting to think that Frank is my spirit animal, BTW.
So while I walked to the office, I thought, man, Frank is right. I don’t have a ton of set-in-stone plans [...]

Here’s the deal: I have THE best subway conductor. During my morning commute, at 9:32 AM exactly on the downtown A train, this guy pulls into my station and says into his microphone in a clear, cheerful voice (though the subway mics are notoriously fuzzy), “Good morning! This is a downtown A experience!” (He might [...]

Normally I wouldn’t flack up all my clients in this personal blog, but this is a video I appeared in for some truly funny dudes who wrote a truly funny book. If you want to check out their site, which is like The Onion for college admissions, click here.

The other day, I clicked on an online ad for the first time in 17 years.
Here’s how it all went down. I was on my Google Reader, looking at the feed of one of my favorite bento recipe sites, Just Bento. (I got into bento after reading about it in another blog post; oh [...]

PR is an industry that is populated, on the whole, with more women than men. Publishing, too, is skewed the same way. So my niche is quite lady-heavy.
I do not appreciate it when the people we do business with make inappropriate requests. It is NOT okay to ask the staff to flirt with you, [...]

Since my move, my morning commute consists of a more Blackberry-centric train ride. Every day at 8 this week, I’ve found myself sitting or standing next to a respectable-looking gentleman of middle age, dapper and crisp in his neatly pressed suit, thumbing through his Blackberry like all the other dapper and crisp middle-aged gentlemen on [...]