On my last trip to San Francisco I was driving around the city completely trusting the Mapquest app on my iPhone to get me where I needed to go. When I missed an exit, I heard the oh-so-familiar GPS voice chanting “Recalculating…”
I slowed down a bit to wait for the next set of instructions and before long I was back on track and speeding down…
Think lightning can’t strike twice? Think again!
The Empire State Building gets struck by lightning about 25 times a year and the shuttle pad at Cape Canaveral sometimes gets hit more than once during the same storm.
Creative Lightning can also strike lots of people at the same time.
Screenwriters often see movies in the theater that are similar to their unproduced scripts. Multiple novelists dream up similar characters…
World-renowned designer Karim Rashid shared his philosophy with House Beautiful in 2005:
“People touch on average, about 500 objects a day—opening a door, drinking from a glass, answering the phone. Why shouldn’t each of them be beautiful?”
Yes, why not???
If looking at beauty brings you joy—which it certainly does for most people—then why not fill your life with more beauty and joy?
As more and more designers turn their…
While I was traveling two weeks ago, I got a call from Chase to tell me that my debit card has been compromised and they were monitoring my account for suspicious transactions. This meant they were also placing pretty strict limits on my daily ATM and transaction limits. An inconvenience? Sure. But not a disaster.
Still, as I activated my replacement debit card on Saturday and…
Simon Cowell’s singing competition, The X Factor, may be posting disappointing ratings but it is certainly serving up some amazing talent with some amazing backstories.
Plus I love the concept of The X Factor, the special “it” quality in someone that is undefinable in words but unmistakable when you witness it in person.
And I believe there’s an X Factor that comes into play in style, too.
It’s…
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