In today's world of information overload most people maintain a binary view of things. There's the left; and there's the right.
While I admittedly cant more to the port side than starboard, generally I find both sides full of cow pucky.
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It's kind of like a social petri dish … just a lot less gooey and damp.
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It had been in my mind for a while, scurrying around the back corners of my brain peeping out occasionally then darting back into shadow. This idea, to tackle my next stage presentation about storytelling and the importance of one’s personal narrative as...
DISCLAIMER: I am on Hollaback’s Board.
Street harassment. If you’re a woman, chances are likely that at some time someone somewhere (more than likely a man) proffered some sort of sketchy commentary in your direction. It could have been a whistle or a catcall. It...
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I have to start with a mea culpa. I intended to write this post in August. That’s when I encountered not one, not two, but three remarkable customer service experiences – two of which began with my firing a salvo across Twitter, and...
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When I was 15 years old, I had a job ripping wire copy at KYW Newsradio in Philadelphia. It was the 1980s and media outlets had yet to be computerized, so folks like me were responsible for literally “ripping” copy from the machines...
So many thoughts … so little time.
SXSW is, if nothing else, a maelstrom of merriment with a heavy overlay of brain stuffing content and parties, parties, parties. This year, in addition to producing six VIP events (in 7 days) and executing on three speaking gigs,...
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Joking aside and generally speaking, I don’t shy from voicing my opinion, speaking my mind and letting folks know precisely...
The minute I start thinking about the theme of “altruism” through the social media lens, part of my heart feels full and in the next breath feelings of deep skepticism begin to arise. There is a lot of talk about doing social good through social...
“Cathy, do you ever sit still?”
I get this question a lot. Mostly from people who track me on Twitter or Facebook and note the seemingly perpetual motion with which I live my life. Okay, so it’s not seemingly … it’s actual. The truth, though, is that while...
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It’s election day and as media outlets of all ilk are saturated with Blue & Red statistics, I was thrilled to get an email that had nothing to do with whether the Democrats would retain control of this or that or which Propositions...
NOTE TO READERS: I’ve scouted about for an hour or so now trying to find information about the woman whose poem I have embedded below. Unfortunately I can’t find *anything* about her … searches merely pull up page … after page … after page …...
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