My period is six days late. I check throughout the day, hoping, but my old friend isn’t coming. There was a time when I would have been ecstatic it was late, gotten a pregnancy test and peed on the stick anticipating the plus sign. And there were times I would have been horrified I may … Continue reading Missing My Period
“Apple is evil,” I told the man tapping his iPad to retrieve my son's information at middle school registration. His bushy eyebrows furrowed. “No they're not. They're great! They practically gave the district iPads for every grade, student, and even all the admins. And next year we'll be going digital with most textbooks,” he said enthusiastically. … Continue reading APPLE IS EVIL
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Marketing 101: How to motivate people to DO what you want them to do… An entrepreneur recently asked me: “What specific skills or knowledge do you believe will be most crucial for aspiring entrepreneurs in 2025 to navigate this complex and dynamic environment?” My response: “The greater understanding one has of what motivates people, individually … Continue reading Engage in Learning About People
Will shooting them all stop these corps stealing from the 99%? I’m writing a dystopian novel called The Power Trip about 4 Stanford undergrads that build a MMORPS game where PLAYERS manipulate other players — MARKS — to do what they ‘suggest.’ In one scene, the fictional CEO of fictional HealthNet is shot to death on a … Continue reading Murdering CEOs is Trending
On our drive from school the other day my tweenage son told me a classmate had offered him a joint. I’d been preparing for this moment, staging it in my head for years, ready with my bag full of allegorical stories of my reckless youth before easing into the “Why drugs are bad for you” … Continue reading Grand Fu*k*ng Cyn
A journal entry to my 7-year-old daughter on the nature of women and men… I have this lump in my throat as I write this. I want to cry, for the ‘Thousand Slights’ you’ll suffer, my baby. I want to shield you from that pain. But I can’t. And it makes me feel helpless and hopeless and … Continue reading A Thousand Slights
“You are so beautiful, my baby. Once you slim down boys will notice and you’ll get as many dates as you want,” my mother promised me in her kitchen when I was 16, her response to my crying to her how lonely I felt with no one asking me out. “I guarantee you, you’ll have your pick … Continue reading An Inconvenient Truth About Men and Women
My father is a fervent Republican. My mother was a Democrat. I once saw him put his fist through the maple cabinet an inch from my mother’s head because her vote was going to cancel his in the second Reagan election. Though he never hit her, connected anyway, he often shouted, slammed things, threw things, … Continue reading Believing is NOT Thinking
