Blogging & Social Media for the Advanced Beginner
Taking (and giving) advice is a tetchy process. We all come at life and career from unique positions. Even identical twins have their slight differences. The greater the differences among us, the harder it is to generalize — something very important to consider if one is in the business of giving impractical advice. I have… Read More
I had such hopes for Zumba Gold. Recommended by LiveStrong, incredible reviews on Amazon, I. . . I . . . I . . . What was I thinking? I was thinking that there WAS A WORLD where I would not be leaving the fitness studio in the back of an ambulance after a Zumba… Read More
After 104 blog posts, almost daily, I was wondering if I had burnt out. The day-job has been getting intense. The need to write for a living in my day job was beginning to give me some serious screen fatigue; trying to write a blog at that pace, too, did not work at all. This… Read More
When you reach a certain unfortunate level of fitness — or lack thereof — well, we have to address the elephant in the room. Or become the elephant in the room. 🙂 I was a skinny kid and to arrive in my forties with a bit of a weight problem was a surprise. It’s gotten… Read More
After spending much of 2018, blogging every single day, I had to stop. The day job is demanding more of me, including a good bit of travel (ooh la la!), some late nights and lots of early mornings. This has given me some time to think about Impractical Advice and what I want to write about… Read More
I’m back from a week in Italy, yes, it was lovely. I met some great people, including an amazing woman in my age range. Another woman with a remarkable past, stellar skills and jaw-dropping experience–and, like so many of us, under-employed, in a toxic environment, having to figure out whether or not we can make… Read More
Some people are world transformers. We choose to go headlong into the breach, to try something, to build something, to create something that didn’t exist before. People are not born risk-takers or leaders, or innovators, or founders. We acquire the ambition, the skills, the experience and the know-how along the way, often at difficult cost. … Read More
When I lived in Thailand, I participated in yi peng, the tradition of creating and sending up these homemade balloons (khom loy). People often have contests–they write their addresses on it and when people find the remains, hopefully someone will contact them. A successfully balloon goes high and far until the flame snuffs itself out,… Read More
It’s interesting, sad, and ridiculous how we age. For many of us, it seems to come on suddenly after years of denial, face creams, and mirror avoidance. For me, it came early, with a shocking amount of white in my long tresses–oh, and facial hair that sprouted, starting out as tiny white filaments, hard to… Read More
I was sitting in a meeting at a days-long confab and I happened to raise my hand and offer some training possibilities to the speaker for a problem she was describing. The speaker thanked me for the offer and turned to talk to someone else, when this grey haired man behind me, leaned in to… Read More
