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For so long, I prided myself on NOT being a team person. Sure, I collaborated with writers, editors, and clients one-on-one. But I’m talking about a real team. Of many people. The kind that has meetings and group emails, goes out drinking together,…

My son, Max, is almost 9. He’s a great kid, with swooping hair like his dad and a cheeky smile like me. He’s also a smart ass. I’m talking smart ass of the A+ plus sort, the won-the-award-for-class-comedian, has-a-comeback-for-everything,…

Last week, I got a new MacBook Pro. It’s the seventh or eighth Mac I’ve bought in the 20+ years I’ve been a computer user. My first new one was 1996, when I went off to graduate school. I don’t recall it being stressful, because all I had to do…

Transparency is a word that has come up in several of my conversations with clients in the past week. I’m also reading Dan Ariely’s book, The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, so questions of honesty and disclosure are really on the brain right…

I did not enjoy January. It was a month dominated by my conflicting urges to scream as loudly as possible and hide in heartbreaking silence. And that was just when I read the news. It was a month filled with divisiveness and pain. Literally, I had the…