ANN’S NOTE: Listen to Girl On the Brink on NPR’s Tell Me More. One of the many things about being unemployed is that I need to negotiate new reasoning for accomplishing my daily and weekly chores. Usually, not having a car is no big deal except when you add in the mitigating factors of children and [...]
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Habits. They change when you’re unemployed, especially when you’re unemployed and living with your ex. Remember, bad times force people like me to do weird things, including sharing the same house but separate beds with him. The biggest difference I’ve noticed is the brand of cereal my ex husband buys. In our kitchen cabinet, Wheaties has [...]
Monday, October 5, 2009
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 [...]
Sunday, October 4, 2009
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 [...]
Friday, October 2, 2009
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 [...]
Thursday, October 1, 2009
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 [...]
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
I can see the first of October on my calendar, so I’m starting to pack away my sundresses and sandals, and take out my sweaters and slacks. At my temp job, I’m not sure anyone cares what I wear. I feel sort of invisible there. I expect at least one or two men hanging out in [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your…. Dang! I knew I should have gotten those hair extensions at Bubbles. Shoulder-length hair just won’t do when you’re trying to escape an unfavorable living situation. I often feel I live the modern-day version of the classic Grimm fairy tail Rapunzel. But instead of being trapped in a tower, I live in [...]
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Monday, October 12, 2009
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