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 [...]
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Our hobbies define us as much as our job histories. The closer they intersect, the happier and healthier we are. Personally, writing has been both my hobby and career. I appreciate the way words can combine to evoke an image as smoky as a film noir night scene, and I marvel that word combinations seem to [...]
Monday, September 28, 2009
VH1 has created a trashy takeoff of ABC’s The Bachelor, called Real Chance of Love, Back in the Saddle. (Remember, I watch so you don’t have to.) Real and Chance are the names of two rap artists looking for love down grand canyons of cleavage. I swear the girls possess 90 percent of the world’s [...]
Sunday, September 27, 2009
We, as a society, strive for perfection—an often unattainable goal that’s influenced by glamorous, brainy and athletic bodies reveled in movies, glossy check-out magazines and TV. Where does that leave everybody else—the millions of minions who are struggling to survive the double whammy of job and love losses? Ann’s Answer: Scrambling to perfect their resumes and free [...]
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
When your love-career quests face stiff competition, optimizing them with keywords is often the Viagra that stimulates success. That’s because life has become a ginormous filter through which we make decisions. Employers use keyword filters to screen for the right job candidates. Online dating sites use them to pigeon hole members into likes and dislikes. Search [...]
Monday, September 21, 2009
Sometimes I don’t know how other people can work for some of my former bosses. I feel that way about my neighbor, too. But in a different context. I don’t know how she could be married to that guy—or vice versa. My neighbor is such a nudge, one of those women who won’t get out of your [...]
Sunday, September 20, 2009
I had an interview in the suburbs of Washington, in one of the tall buildings that tower over the beltway. People do secret things in some of these buildings, including the one I had an interview in. Compared to the world of little nonprofits that I usually inhabit, this was positively surreal. First, the nearest Metro stop [...]
Thursday, September 17, 2009
ANN’S NOTE: Taking the day off—check back Sunday for a fresh post. Even Ann needs a mental health day! When God created man, he created Adam and Eve and commanded them to “be fruitful and multiply.” And, multiply they did. Whether you believe in Adam and Eve, you cannot deny their enduring popularity throughout the centuries. They [...]
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
If I read one more online dating profile about a man seeking a woman of adventure, I’m going to croak. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] I told you so. Adventure is as overused in dating profiles, as the word multitasking is in job descriptions. Whether you’re in the market for a new job or love life, potential [...]
Monday, September 14, 2009
When I sent a tweet that I broke up with my boyfriend, my publicist emailed me on Facebook. He said, “the man in question clearly is among the dumbest people on the planet……..to ‘have’ and then lose you would be a lifetime error.” Yah. I clearly agreed. How could a message like that not [...]
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