Girl on the Brink: Surviving Desperate Times with Desperate Measures

Day 186 — Lohan’s Career Rebirth

Apparently, you can drink, drive, get busted, serve jail time and still merit the attention of The New York Times to honor you with ink. Enter America’s No. 1 bad (stupid) girl Lindsay Lohan in her latest attempt to reinvent herself. For Lindsay, the world of couture beckons. This is from her point of view, [...]

Day 185 — Too Normal to Notice

As I struggle through life, love and work, I have become a closer observer of movement—the way people do or don’t integrate gestures with words to get across a point. Some people also call this nonverbal communication. For many people, body language is too normal to notice. But it forms part of the fiber of our social [...]

Day 185 — Freedom from My Ex

I’m home alone—and I’m lovin’ it. I feel these are my rollover minutes of freedom, and I’ll even forgive my ex for not cleaning the cat litter boxes. On rare nights like this, I sneak upstairs to splay my body on the covers of the once master bedroom bed I had shared with my husband. With my [...]

Day 184 — Whole Body Returns

Ann’s next entrepreneurial effort is a new dating-work site, called DatingGreen.com. She calls it a dating-work site because dating is work. But this is not Ann’s attempt at conservation. That’s right, Ann thinks it’s about time we recycle, reuse and reduce our former lovers rather than trash them. The site’s tag line — “Whole Body Returns” — means that [...]

Day 183 — Higher

ANN’S NOTE: A short bonus post. I usually take Saturday’s off. Now, off to the gym. On the rare day that I stop at Starbucks to buy a $1.75 Tall coffee, I eye the iced lemon pound cake and bear claws. Decadently good but sinfully bad. I know enough about simple and complex sugars to know that [...]

Day 182 — Pick Me!

High open rates for email often define the success of e-marketeers. It begins with the subject line, which is the first thing a recipient sees. They toy with length and angst over words. They strive to turn impersonal email into a personal message with words that they hope will resonate with recipients so they open the [...]

Day 181 — You’ve Got….

The relationship between the growth of social networks and our ability to interact shares an inverse relationship like the price and interest rates on bonds. The more social networks grow, the less we interact. Talking face to face to one another is a lost art, supplanted by email, autoesponders, text messages, Facebook status updates, 140-character tweets and [...]