Tag Archives: Stephen Gaskin

Retail Therapy

Day 164 It might not seem like such a big deal, but it was: I got great service in a store in a mall. It was amazing! I was greeted warmly. (I’m on the road and nowhere near home, so it wasn’t because I’m a regular customer.) I got help with what I needed. Checkout [...]

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I <3 U IRL

Day 156 Real life is where the action is, and you can’t put a price on personal contact. Oh, wait, you can. At the Personal Democracy Forum 2010 conference in New York City, one woman stood up after the Philanthropy 2.0 breakout session and said, “Well, now I know the truth.” Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg  was attending as a Google Fellow, and [...]

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So BusTED

This is the shirt that launched a thousand lies.  OK, I’m exaggerating for the sake of literary allusion. It was maybe a dozen cases of mistaken idenTEDy. www.mondonation.com allows you to complete the sentence “i believe”  and put it on the back of a t-shirt.  I got a long-sleeved pink one that says “i believe heaven is a [...]

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