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I Come For The One
Day 216 I still haven’t been able to bring myself to listen to my own TED University talk, which has been available online to attendees of TEDGlobal2010 for some time now. My experience was affected by a number of factors that combined to cast a shadow. First and foremost, my mother died. I received the [...]
Full StoryWiki W/ Me?
Day 215 When I read this article in the New York Times, I was glad I added the Wikimedia Foundation to my list of grantees a couple of years ago. I’m sure it gave Wikimedia’s counsel no joy to refuse the Bureau’s demand to remove the picture of the F.B.I. seal from Wikipedia. But when government [...]
Full StoryNo Good Deed
Day 214 Disappointment reigns. Someone who has been the recipient of much kindness and much generosity has behaved in a way that is hardly the way I would have expected or hoped. It’s certainly not the first time that I’ve invested in someone who later acted in self-interest to my detriment. However, each time it happens, the [...]
Full StoryDream A Little Dream..of ME?
Day 213 My experiences as a media personality gave me a priceless education. One thing I learned: a life in the public eye puts you in private imaginations. Over the course of my career, thousands of people wrote or called to tell me how I showed up in their heads. Some of them were imagining [...]
Full StoryAnother Earthquake
Day 212 It happened again. This is the second time that the perspective I’ve gained from stepping away from my routines has delivered a big surprise. I was going to say “an unpleasant surprise,” but I am choosing not to tell myself a negative story. It’s…(disconcerting? Upsetting? Hmmm. Negative again.)..INTERESTING to discover other huge shifts in my [...]
Full StoryNot Too Late
Day 211 One of my all-time favorite books, The Road Less Traveled, says we are navigating our way through life using the maps we were given as children. The people who told us what was dangerous, what was desirable, where we should and should not venture, made those maps for us. Throughout our lives, we redraw [...]
Full StoryPaint It, Paint It, Paint It
Day 210 When I was a child, only people in mourning wore black. Audrey Hepburn and “Breakfast At Tiffany’s” would soon make the little black dress a sophisticated choice, but for many years when I chose to wear black, people would ask, “Who died?” My grandmother told me that where she grew up, a widow was expected [...]
Full StoryWith Apologies to Anthony Kiedis
Day 209 Something snapped when I read a news article about a major foundation “giving away” several million dollars. I know darn well the foundation administrators didn’t just toss dollar bills in the air. I know they didn’t wrap up the check like a Christmas gift and present it with no strings attached. They didn’t “give away” money. [...]
Full StoryI <3 Kuwait Airways
Day 208 Yeah, I said it. I <3 Kuwait Airways. I was in Oxford when I learned that my mother had died. My husband and I made arrangements with Delta to change our return. When we arrived at the airport, we were told that our flight had been cancelled. The Delta agent handed us a [...]
Full StoryFolly + Time = Genius
Day 207 Years ago, I ordered a head-to-toe suit designed to keep insects out. If there are ten people in a room, I’m the one who gets bitten, so I am always on the lookout for products that will protect me. My husband thought this suit was the height of folly, the ultimate waste of [...]
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