RAOKA: Palm Tree State of Mind

March 2, 2011

This month’s RAOKA (Random Acts of Kick Arse) topic is warmth. Each month a new theme is explored. To get involved, please visit Zeenat Merchant-Syal at Positive Provocations. I’m not going to lie to you…this winter has felt like it’s been around for years, not months. In Chicago, we’ve had a blizzard and too many [...]

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    Weekend Video Diversion: A-ha Moments

    February 19, 2011

    From a marketing perspective, I really like Mutual of Omaha’s “A-ha Moments” campaign.  While I don’t think each of our aha or lightbulb moments can actually be sponsored (just as Kleenex would not sponsor my next sneeze), I do love how Mutual of Omaha used their commercial to help share a-ha moments from people across [...]

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      Our Work Story

      February 15, 2011

      If you go to a party or networking event with a lot of people you don’t know, chances are you’ll get asked the dreaded question: “so what do you do for a living?” If you’re fortunate to do work that you enjoy and get paid reasonably well, there’s a good chance you’ll give an enthusiastic [...]

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        Weekend Photographic Diversion: Dibs

        February 12, 2011

        More than a week since the Blizzard of 2011 dumped over 20 inches of snow in Chicago, residents are still saving their shoveled parking spaces with a wide array of used and discarded furniture. The practice, known here as “dibs,” had been outlawed in recent years. But last week the mayor and his administration indicated [...]

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          RAOKA: The End is the Beginning

          February 2, 2011

          This month’s RAOKA (Random Acts of Kick Arse) topic is new beginnings. Each month a new theme is explored. To get involved, please visit Zeenat Merchant-Syal at Positive Provocations. My Merriam Webster Dictionary defines commencement as “the act or time of a beginning.” As a young adult graduating high school and then college, I was [...]

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            Weekend Musical Diversion: The Wood Brothers

            January 29, 2011

            I’ve been a big fan of experimental jazz/jam band Medeski Martin and Wood for while now…great music to write to by the way. In any case, the Wood Brothers is a folky blues band that features MMW bassist Chris Wood and his brother Oliver. One thing I think you’ll notice and appreciate is the sound [...]

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              Peoplescape Part 3: The Presentation

              January 22, 2011

              About a year ago, I had the good fortune to witness an amazing Pecha Kucha presentation from Maria Scileppi about her Peoplescape project.  I later featured Maria and interviewed her about her life-changing project (check out Peoplescape pt. 1 and Peoplescape pt. 2).  Now, a year later, I became aware that her presentation was captured [...]

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                Life As A Story

                January 18, 2011

                “Is your life a living hell? Change your act, re-write the script the way you planned it” – The Fixx, from the song Privilege I was first introduced to the idea of life being like a story on the Fixx’s 1982 album, Reach the Beach. I was a young, impressionable teenager and in addition to [...]

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                  Book Review: Wherever You Go There You Are

                  January 13, 2011

                  I first read Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Wherever You Go There You Are back in the mid to late 90′s. It was one of those books that opened my mind to the idea of mindfulness and it soon became one of my favorite books. Having gathered some dust over the years, I decided to re-read the book [...]

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