I was driving to San Diego on Friday and heard on the radio that the average American family is spending a whopping $1000 to send their daughter to prom this year.
A whopping $1000!
I mean between the dress, the shoes, the bag, the jewelry, the tickets, the limo, the hair, the makeup, the photographer…Let’s face it. All these things add up.
And how things change.
When I went…
Let’s face it. We live in a consumer culture where we are bombarded by messages that try to convince us that we need another doodad, an improved something-or-other, a better whatchamacallit or the latest thingamajig if we ever want to be truly happy, content, or satisfied.
But being acquisitive isn’t the way to inner peace.
As soon as you do finally get whatever is was you were…
Earlier this week I was blessed to share a stimulating conversation with Mark Levy, the brilliant founder of Levy Innovation, who has been described as “a positioning guru extraordinaire,” “a Superman of the mind,” and “a horse whisperer for writers and thinkers.”
With accolades like that you might correctly surmise that our talk included phrases like externalized thinking and thought leadership but, surprisingly, Mark and I also mulled…
I laughed my way through chapter after chapter of Tina Fey’s hilarious book, Bossypants, over the weekend. And while she offered some wacky advice and opinions on everything from breastfeeding to management styles, her observations about fashion were right on the money:
“It can’t be said enough. Don’t concern yourself with fashion; stick with simple pieces that flatter your body type.”
And
“A wise friend once told me,…
In one scene from Sex and the City 2, Samantha and Miley Cyrus both arrive at a Red Carpet event wearing the same dress. Fashion disaster, right?
I mean, a dress would have to be super-extraordinary to transcend the decades (and years of gravity!) that stand between a teenager and a woman in her fifties. And this particular dress, cut up to here and down to…
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