Have you ever noticed that between any couple, there's usually one who more easily gains, and one who more easily loses weight?Recently, my husband has taken on the svelte appearance of his youth. I, on the other hand, could easily go as the Pillsbury Dough Girl for Halloween, especially in the aftermath of COVID (which I …
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Cinderella Had Chutzpah
Years ago, I took up ballroom dancing. I enrolled in an eight-lesson lunch-hour class. It went well, and it turned out I have a knack for dance. About six weeks into the class, I decided to go to my first social. Entering that social, I jumped more hurdles than a hobby horse at a kids' …
Who Would You Invite to Dinner?
I'm reading the book Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times by CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley. It's a fascinating book, but not light reading. Scott has been an award-winning journalist and photographer for over for over 40 years. He was on the ground in New York for 9/11, he interviewed George Bush …
Don’t Blame Me, My Avatar Did It!
I was doing research, and I discovered a New York Times article outlining options for a new concept in online meetings that departs from Zoom and most other online meeting formats. In these versions — heavily borrowed from gaming technology — YOU (i.e., your cute little avatar) actually “move around” a virtual landscape created by the organizer. While the …
Pulling Swords from Stones
Have you ever seen that old Disney film, The Sword in the Stone? A young orphan named Arthur manages to pull a double-edged sword from the stone where it had been embedded for years. Sometimes, that is what working on a collaborative project feels like. I thought about this over the past weekend when my daughter was …
An Electronic Symphony of Mischief
Have you ever had one of those days where you feel as if every piece of technology you pick up is out to sabotage you? There’s a reason for that. Our gadgets communicate with each right under our noses, and we're not even aware of it. They act up as self-protection, just to make sure …
Out on a Limb 