Like many PR professionals, I’m Type A. So, in the last few years a bunch of folks have strongly recommended I take up yoga: all my friends, my daughter, sister, mom, all other relatives, every doc, my colleagues, everyone in my apartment building and every facebook friend (so basically everyone I know). Meantime, I’m about ready to shoot anyone I… Read more →
Author: zcomm
2,300 Feet Down
Every time I start thinking about those first 17 days (not to mention months to come) for the Chilean miners I get goosebumps. Guess is they were doing lots of praying. Given two spoonfuls of tuna and half a cookie every two days, they sure weren’t doing much eating. And then the miracle happened. The drill bit through the rock… Read more →
Bullies
What’s wrong with this country? People still have this undeniable urge to bully others. Is it a small ego thing…a small brain thing? Something is definitely small ‘cause no one who feels good about him/herself would care if someone else were short or skinny or fat or gay. Why does it matter? I felt sick when I heard about the… Read more →
Women Rule
Leave it to SmartCEO magazine to put on the hippest party in downtown DC. There were women CEOs everywhere schmoozing, toasting and celebrating the honor of being tapped one of SmartCEO’s Brava 100. You walked in and there were disco lights flashing, giant screens flashing video of the winners, a bar lining the right side of the wall and hors-d’oeuvres… Read more →
LeBRON: PUT A RING ON IT
I shouldn’t even be writing about this, but need to vent. First, why should a pro ball player get all the hype (and I know from hype) vs. teacher, firefighter, cop, fisherman and every other hard-working, low-paid guy/gal out there
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Daughter Goes Hollywood
What’s with all these Hollywood bosses? Just because you make money young gives you the right to send interns out for lattes and bottled water? And god forbid the foam isn’t just right on the latte! How do I know this? My Ivy league daughter went straight from college to LA to become a TV writer. As part of her… Read more →
Ash Wednesday
Who would ever guess a volcano in Iceland could throw a monkey wrench into the travel plans of hundreds of thousands of travelers plus cost the airlines hundreds of millions of dollars a day? But there they were. On the radio, TV, Internet – millions of stranded passengers sleeping at airport gates (some with no money) as they waited, day… Read more →