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I've written about authenticity in the past, as I feel pretty strongly that it is correlated with personal success. While that isn't today's thrust, I just want to assure you that this isn't about $140 pants, fashion, or the like. This is about authenticity in blogging.My eldest son is a comput...
10/15/2007
Active Rain is like a national cocktail party. You can show up at any time, and something's going on. Never know who might be in the room (although you can frequently count on the "regulah's"). And, like the actual cocktail party, at the virtual party, everyone has an agenda. The nice thing i...
10/10/2007
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PREAMBLE: A client gift is a client gift; not necessary, but these days in Real Estate, somewhat expected. When we closed on our last house ($715k) we received a musical refrigerator magnet and breakfast at a diner. It was lovely.But as much as those of us in the industry want to give gifts,...
10/02/2007
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One simply needs two walk through one Circuit City, or Best Buy to understand how electronics-crazy we currently are. Being a household with three children (ages 22-12), our family consumes our share. But, not until going into staging did I realize the density of this consumption. Silly Jayne...
10/01/2007
I’m stuck in a corporate career....wait; let’s start again...I’m stuck in year EIGHT of needing to maintain a corporate paycheck. Yes, that’s better; more to the point, really. So I began squirreling away tiny tidbits of money for my emotional and creative rainy day, which by the way, began to...
09/29/2007
For me, there's always a tightrope to walk. Unlike the professional tight rope walkers, I get better at this as I age. I'm not sure there are many 50 year old "real walkers" out there, but I could be dead wrong. As a parent, I constantly wonder if I said too much or too little. Did I speak to...
09/28/2007
PREAMBLE: My Mother My mother was born in 1918, oldest daughter of a hard-working German family in Pennsylvania coal country. Money was scarce for all, even though entire families, down to the youngest of the children, contributed to their family's survival. Still, there was always time for s...
09/22/2007
A Channel girl, I'm not.....trust me. But I was a model in 7th grade, mostly because I was 5'9 and hadn't yet broken 100 pounds. That experience taught me to stand up straight, but it didn't last more than a few years. High school dances are tough on the posture of Amazons. But I digress.Bein...
09/18/2007
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Ask anyone in the business where it is, and they’ll draw the line for you.. The problem: the line is in the sand. Tides are high, the wind is picking up, and everything shifts....all the time. The line keeps moving. I’ve been criticized (not harshly), corrected (at length), and, uh.....sq...
09/16/2007
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1. IntroductionAt a cocktail party, you hear about Active Rain from an associate. You wonder about the stupid name, but decide to investigate; hey, looks cool. You receive an invitation from your friend, but you're a busy professional, so you ignore it. They send it again, so you join, and s...
09/14/2007