Year: 2009

Career Risk Changes With The Decade

Over the last two weeks I have been writing about my thoughts on how to address your career. You know what? It’s exhausting. You can’t

Honest Scrap Award From Little Bow Prep

Little Bow Prep has given me an award. She is a high school student, working hard and worrying, as most high-achieving high school students do,

Saturday Morning At 6:17am

My daughter has finished her first week at the new job. She called me every day on the way home from work. I love to

Khakis For The End Of The Week

Khaki is another High WASP all-time favorite color. The best kind of khaki trousers are the kind that show up in your wardrobe, coming from

Risk And What To Do About It

You may not like your career, now, or as you look into the future. If this is where you find yourself, you have two reasonable

Apparently Navy Is Now "Indigo"

Retrogurl at nitro.licious posts this announcement from Lancome. Yesterday in Paris, the Lancôme makeup team unveiled their latest fall 2009 color collection, Declaring Indigo. Created

Fierce At 50, Or, The Risk/Return Curve

In two years of business school, I learned 10 things that were worth the effort. Approximately. Almost all of these fell into the general category

High WASP Stationery

I went to the Stanford Shopping Center today, the center for casual, Californian, flowering luxury that it is. The best urns of glorious colored flowers

Award From Wedding Planning In Exile

Bride at Wedding Planning In Exile has given me this award. As it happens, I’ve received it before, but since I am a ninny and

Saturday Morning At 6:47am

I’m sitting at my kitchen counter. It’s old. 17 years old. Butcher block. Which means that by now it boasts some fissures, a burn mark