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Knowing your customer

NatureMay 18, 20101KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I’ve always loved marketing and communications. Even as a kid, I was fascinated by messaging, by what worked and didn’t. And, over the years, I’ve come to understand and believe that the profession is one of respect and efficiency. Really, why bother communicating (marketing, pr, social media, media buys in advertising … whatever your tools),…

My favorite beet recipe

Little BitsMay 13, 20101KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Simple from the outside. And relatively simple to make, this beet recipe has been my favorite way to eat beets ever since I was turned on to it. I’ve even brought this dish to potluck parties a number of times, and I always come home with an empty bowl. Here’s what I do — Roast…

The Facebook Thing

Stories big and smallMay 9, 20101KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Last year, when I asked my mother what she wanted for Mother’s Day, she told me she wanted “the Facebook thing.” And so it was. I helped her set up “the Facebook thing.” For me, it was a moment where I could take a deep breath and relax a bit. My world view has Facebook…

Arrest me now

Things I PonderApril 12, 2010961Views 0Likes 0Comments

If I understand things correctly, the State of Maryland is well on its way to joining the ranks of Hands-free Cel Phone Use While Driving states. Yeah, I get it. Lots of stats. Accidents from cel phone use, from texting. It’s dangerous. Et cetera. Whatever. But so is putting on make-up while driving, and I don’t…

The importance of sitting next to Earnest

ExperiencesFebruary 19, 20101KViews 0Likes 0Comments

My iPhone was snatched out of my hands. Stolen yesterday. I was on a MUNI train in San Francisco. I was helping an older gentleman next to me find some information online and was using my iPhone to do so when bam! The bus door opened, a “youth” grabbed the phone out of my hand…

Cold turkey

ExperiencesJanuary 3, 20101KViews 0Likes 0Comments

As much as I’m not a practitioner of new year’s resolutions, I can understand them. And, I’m betting, a ton of folk have added to their list of resolutions for 2010, “Quit Smoking.” I’d like to tell my story about how I quit smoking. I smoked since I was a teenager. Always was a chipper (learned that term from Malcolm Gladwell’s…

Carpe Photo Opp

ExperiencesDecember 14, 2009936Views 0Likes 0Comments

It was a moment I couldn’t pass up. Traipsing through DC with a few hundred Santas, we’d just left the Lincoln Memorial and were en route to the White House when I saw it: THE photo opp of the day. Or century! See, as part of SantarchyDC, I’d done my best at interpretive Santa with a haute couture vintage…

I didn’t expect to be so taken

ExperiencesDecember 7, 20091KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I didn’t expect to be so taken. I didn’t expect to have such a deep response. I didn’t expect much of anything, really. See, I volunteered recently to help make yarn wigs for kids at — what was previously named — The Children’s Hospital. These particular kids who will get the yarn wigs are kids…

Dancing with Light

ExperiencesNovember 8, 20091KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Few words I have for this right now. Dancing with light via Lorne’s Electric Heliotrope Theater was one of the most … well, watch the video and imagine how exquisite the experience probably was. The video can be a bit slow to load. Electric Heliotrope Theater – Dance 2 – JessieX from MediaDog on Vimeo.

Why not Wednesday?

Things I PonderAugust 8, 20091KViews 0Likes 0Comments

I’m all for the USPS cutting a day of delivery service to reduce expenses. Personally, I think for $.44, having a piece of mail picked up from my home and delivered straight to the door of any address in the U.S. has got to be the best bargain on the planet. So, if the Postal…

I gazed at him lovingly every day

MemoriesJune 25, 20091KViews 0Likes 0Comments

When I was eight years old, I got my first-ever album. It was by The Jackson Five. Inside, there was a paper sleeve protecting the record. And on this sleeve were printed many fan items for purchase. The heart-shaped stickers with young Michael Jackson’s photo in the center I pined for, day in and day…

Localized pain

Things I PonderJune 23, 20091KViews 0Likes 0Comments

News of the WMATA Red Line metro crash yesterday made me stop. I was headed out when I heard the first bit about the crash. I felt shaken, and I needed to talk with people. To sit in a neighborhood bar. To be in the company of people who were local and cared, people who…