In our school district, kids received their high school letters last night – not for football, soccer, or lacrosse - but for achievement in the ARTS. It was like our own mini-Oscars. The title of this post comes from the T-shirt worn by one of the attendees. We clapped loudly and often for high achievement in rocking-chair-woodcrafting, [...]
At the risk of alienating some of the more important people in my life including my husband, my boss, most of the venture capitalists who I dutifully represent on a daily basis, many of my closest friends, a number of fellow bloggers, surely a good percentage of MoB readers, and I think Jennifer, I would [...]
Can I just say how very thankful I am that Emily and I share the writing job at this blog? Coming up with fresh material 5 days a week all by myself would be hugely stressful. Even if I had enough good material on my own, which I wouldn’t, where would the time come from to [...]
We interrupt this Monday morning blog for a very important public service announcement: It has come to the attention of the blogger that there are disturbing similarities between the packaging for Dial Soap (our brand of choice) and Dial Soap for Men (what Dave accidentally bought last week). See for yourself: Regular Dial Dial for Men [...]
OK, now I can’t run for public office. Look at what happened to Caroline Kennedy. This is from a story in yesterday’s New York Times about an ethics panel looking into how Caroline’s candidacy for New York senator was derailed. “During the selection process, Ms. Kennedy and other candidates had filled out detailed questionnaires…The questionnaires asked [...]
What happens when you put a dozen or so bloggers together and ply them with cheese, wine, spaghetti and cannoli? Suddenly, I am the quietest person in the room. Go figure. Last night I attended the second meeting of the Philly Bloggers. Suffice it to say that it didn’t take long for our polite, I-have-never-met-you conversation [...]
Ian’s 9-year-old birthday party had a bike theme. All the kids brought their vehicles (one poor guy still had training wheels about which he exclaimed, in his defense, “I live on a busy street! I haven’t had much practice!”) and rode as a pack in the neighborhood. Chris went to buy the goodie bag supplies [...]
I ran my first 5K race this weekend. I had exhausted all the reasons not to officially embark upon a few trial runs before the Philly Women’s Triathlon coming up in July. This race was so local I could almost walk there; the day was beautiful; and you could register up until 10 seconds before the gun [...]
Children are prolific producers of artwork. My mom kept every piece of paper we drew on. When we were very little, she would ask us what the scene depicted, then write the caption in her neat cursive at the bottom. Which is how the family art files ended up with a picture of a woman [...]
To: The Somali Pirates From: MothersofBrothers PR Consulting Group Subject: Rebranding Campaign for 2009 On behalf of the MoB, thank you for the opportunity to provide you with totally unsolicited PR advice regarding your image and brand recognition needs going forward. Based upon recent developments, we believe you have an excellent opportunity to put forth a strong [...]
