Vocabulary reflects where we live, reflects the times we live in. When certain vocabulary moves from the background to the foreground and becomes daily nomenclature, it’s reflecting the zeitgeist of the times. Pivot is a word that is now bandied about and has an entirely different connotation. Pivot is used as a business term today for taking a new direction, but Pivot reflects the culture, nothing is secure, one must be in a constant…
We walk by people every day making snap judgements. How they look, an attitude, a way someone’s dressed. We don’t have a clue what might be going on in that person’s life. They might have lost a job that they loved or extenuating circumstances have put them into a compromising position or worse, they might…
As the year nears completion, we do a review of what that year yielded both personally and globally. It’s been a year of crisis, more people have been impacted by difficulties and challenges. It’s not been easy-so many people have been hit by the virus of divisiveness and violence, it’s hit our world, our domestic…
In times where there doesn’t seem like there is any way out of the abject despair and the insurmountable violence and chaos that is in your face and sometimes right in your house, whats a person to do?You have to continually affirm life and love. It is not easy in the face of heartbreak and…
What do you say, when there doesn’t seem to be anything worth saying or that there’s no one listening. What do you do when mostly you only have attack and revenge as your palette. What do you do when your global leadership is either corrupt or checked out or both. The lines of what’s insane…
When Jack and Gigi were very young, Gigi was 1 1/2 and Jack was 3, we found the very best nanny to help take care of them. Her name was Yadis but Gigi couldn’t pronounce her name so Gigi called her YaYa and that name stuck for all time. She was definitely YaYa to all…
We seem to have lost our way. The way that we knew. The way that was so certain. It’s not one of those situations where you wake up and discover everything you thought, everything you believed in was a lie- it’s more like you wake up to find your bed is on the ceiling and…
Despite his violence and selfishness, I loved my dad. I always have. However, that love required dexterous skills. My love for him was filled with posturing, distance, the ability to entertain, and to make certain that I never put any unnecessary strain on him. My dad was a child and as long as you remembered…
How to stay expressed-How to stay true-How to stay real in a world that has you checkmated at every turn. The world is culturally offended combined with a good dash of mentally arrested and unleased violence. Victimized and Gaslighted. Uncertain and yet outspoken. Anxious and depressed. Entitled and talentless. Gone from a Meritocracy to Moronacracy.…
We live in a complex world where the requirement of learning new languages is coming at us at light speed. Whether the language is that of social media, AI, CRYPTO or current vernacular. And that’s while having to keep all your other commitments afloat. It’s not a matter of creative learning, it’s a matter of…