What a repulsive name. What a funny play. It’s not that often a play makes fun of itself and its audience and sends everyone out the door laughing.
One of the lines near the end of the play goes something like:
Why would people come to a play that tells them their living habits are unsustainable […]

Neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, a woman dedicated to understanding the brain, had an amazing experience. She observed herself losing her faculties while having a stroke. What an incredible thing for someone who studies the brain to go through.
That happened in 1996. After 8 years, she had fully recovered. In February 2008, she gave […]

Just for fun (is this what she does for fun?!?!!? Yikes!), in the spirit of the Clean Desk Challenge, I cleared off the digital desktop as well as the glass desktop tonight:
   
What you can’t quite make out next to the phone is a bluetooth headset which got connected to the new Treo yesterday […]

Quandary. I wanted to include a picture of my new phone in this Clean Desk Challenge report #16. However, my new phone is also my current photo taking device.
After months of moving in this direction, getting a “smartphone” finally moved high enough on the priority list to happen. I got a Palm Treo 755p […]

I was out of town without the second brain (i.e. laptop) over the weekend, hence no clean desk report. I was in Oakland, California for the 20th Anniversary party for the Celebrator Beer News journal. More specifically, I was helping out with a silent auction that raised funds for the California Small Brewers Association […]

In the blossoming adventures of speaker-dom, I’m looking to raise awareness of my business in the local geographical area. Up to this point, I’ve solely relied on word of mouth (and the occasional newspaper articles) to spread the word.
This month I joined the Grass Valley/Nevada County Chamber of Commerce. I figure this ought to […]

I just stumbled across the Small Business Trends blog which had a post called Top Experts Dish with their Best Kept Marketing Secrets from last month.
The overarching theme had to do with relationships–listening and service. Gone are the days of “low prices” as the way to go.
Here’s the one that particularly caught my […]