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The shape of things
BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION: I’ve done some blogging during the time I’ve been an independent design and communications consultant. This is the same time that I gave birth, was on maternity leave and then...
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Me time
This will never be an ad for Nike. The glory of running slowly. I ran a 5:30 mile in highschool, but as an adult I never was a superfast runner. I’ve run marathons. Personal best, 4:11. I am much...
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On Yoga, and Progress
Today I went to a special two-hour hot yoga class. Not Bikram, but a vinyasa flow class in a hot room. It was awesome. Loved it. It was challenging. Humbling. Exhilarating. I was going to write this...
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Interesting or good? Interesting or happy?
Mies van der Rohe, a design hero of mine, once said “I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.” He meant his architectural designs, of course, but what are we doing other than designing our...
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Perfection ends at home
* colors are weird! see footnote! I’m a bit of a perfectionist professionally. I’ve never missed a deadline. Once my computer died right in the middle of a client’s newsletter cycle. I went out and...
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Atlantic magazine: The 80s called and wants its cover back
I read the recent Atlantic cover story, “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” with great interest. I really appreciated former head of policy planning at the State Department, Anne-Marie Slaughter for...
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Why can’t we be Friends: Why it doesn’t matter so much what kind of blocks...
So it seems the LEGO Friends sets are a success, in spite of a spate of dissent. I’d gotten over the hoopla that bubbled up over the Friends blocks when they first came out last spring—feminists who...
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