Last weekend, I toured an exhibit on French Women’s Fashion and World War I. There was a strong aesthetic distinction between pre-war and post-war. In this case, pre-war was fancy and extravagant (a time when…
Nearly 40% of our users work in technology. So I jumped at the chance to persuade Marjorie to join our mentor network. She is a former senior executive at Verizon where she developed, built, and…
Edittress is about editing stress. When you need help and don’t quite know how to ask, take a spin through our favorite questions below. Talk to somebody who’s been there today… 10. Someone told…
Of all the shows to brag about binging, we’ve been secretly obsessed with Retro Report airing on PBS. It’s one of those shows that’s basic and complex at the same time: revisiting news stories of…
Like many of you, we are super excited about the Downton Abbey *movie* coming out this weekend! So this month, we decided to honor none other than Lady Violet Crawley played by the talented Dame…
From highly effective to atomic, habits are having a moment. I recently came across this bit of wisdom from Seth Godin by way of Fred Wilson’s blog: Streaks are their own reward. Streaks create internal…
If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it. A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves – a special kind of double. Freeing yourself was…
So you wanna break up with your mentor? You’re not alone. It’s a funny meta moment when a mentee asks me how to handle another mentor. Usually it’s an assigned mentor at work or a…
It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn. I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have…
