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Reason I Love NYC No. 9,765,342: Unexpected Adventures
When I suggested to LeiLani E. Quiray that we meet before dinner and New York City Ballet to pop in to the Madison Avenue Art Walk, I had no idea what was in store. I’ve only ever seen work in person by my favorite artist, Geoffrey Johnson, once. So we climbed four flights of stairs…
Clay Is Not My Medium
Making art makes me happy, and it fuels my creativity. Mostly, I paint (mostly in other countries, but that’s another story). This year, I started a sculpture class. My mother kindly reminded me that my experience with clay (a pottery class) hadn’t gone well. I wanted to try again. Three weeks into the class (at…
Write a Short Bio
This is my friend Erin. Erin is a former Miss Savannah, but that’s not why we’re here. Erin sells insurance. A lot of people sell insurance. But they don’t do it like Erin does it. Erin is special. Erin BREATHES insurance. She is a subject-matter expert, she specializes in difficult situations, and she provides a…
Reasons I Love NYC
Adding to the actually endless list of reasons I love my city so very much: Bryant Park has tables reserved for art. ART! Had my dear friend of 35+ years Kathleen Carlin-Russell come in to meet me on a gloriously gorgeous day, it would have been enough (dayenu). Then we turned around in Bryant Park…
A Chip Off the Block!
I learned EVERYTHING I know about what I do from “Schoolhouse Rock!” If you are of a certain age (and maybe from the Northeast?), you learned what I learned every Saturday morning from Schoolhouse Rocky (a chip off the block!) between cartoon shows on ABC. It started in 1973 with “Multiplication Rock,” apparently because the…
Reason I Love NYC #65,978,669: I’m a Yankee to the Core
I was born in the Bronx. My parents were born in the Bronx. I am a New York Yankee by birth and blood. I was the 10-year-old with the pink-and-white paneling populated by newspaper pages of the 1977 and 1978 Yankees World Series teams (knowledge of whom has served me surprisingly well in recent years).…
Do What You Do
Once upon a time, there was a partner in a law firm. His firm wasn’t quite large enough to have its own in-house marketing function, so his partners put him in charge of marketing. Partner had majored in finance in college. And he’d earned his law degree from a prestigious university. He had never taken…
Making a Banana Split With ChatGPT
I wrote a post last year about ChatGPT. Mostly because my friend Karen, a leadership guru who has been incredibly generous in helping me with business planning and strategy, made me. I wrote about how the app was actually bringing me editing business, because unwitting (or maybe witting — who knows?) people were using it…
Sleeping Soundly With ChatGPT
Are you surprised to learn I don’t like ChatGPT? Didn’t think so. Admittedly, I lost a night or two of sleep when I first heard about it. I worried the little AI monster would cost me business. But as I learned more about it, I breathed a sigh of relief because I realized this: If…
How and Why to Hire a Ghostwriter
I am the CMO of a financial-services company. I am the CFO of a bank. I am the head of a real-estate firm. I am the CEO of an insurance company. I am the president of a college. I am the COO of a nonprofit agency. I am all these things with some regularity. That…
