Steve Jobs’ sister, Mona Simpson wrote a beautiful eulogy for her brother. It brought tears to my eyes. She chose to be a writer so she could give him this gift, a send off, a tribute to a very special man, father, husband and a visionary and dreamer whose last words expressed his entire life: Oh Wow, Oh Wow, Oh Wow. I hope we all get to see the same thing you saw, Steve. Thank you Mona.
Surgery day
June 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In this morning at 7:30 and in recovery by 9. Everything went fine, no complications. Home at 5. Tired, shoulder hurts, but i’m eating and coping with no shower for one week!
Thanks for the well wishes. Typing with one hand!
Feel Free to Laugh…
March 22, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I certainly did, right after the blood stopped.
Coming home from picking up my son at school. I had my cell phone, my wallet, my purse, two sets of keys in my hands and I’m trying to get it all together in order to unlock the front door of the house. We had two sets of storms, one after the other and my front area is damp and covered with bits of greenery from the trees and the wind.
My family has a long line of less then graceful people, we fall down when chewing gum and walking. I wasn’t even chewing gum. But my feet went out from under me. I see the next few seconds of my life flash in front of me. I see me falling head first into the large fountain, the two dolphins on it flying into the air and hitting the front door, making a dent, shattering the fountain and the dolphins. I have a rich imagination. No dolphins or fountains or doors were injured. I can’t say that for me.
I brace my fall, and save my iPhone by putting it into the dirt, my weight falling on my knees, elbows, wrists on the concrete. Ouch. I pull up my pant leg and look at my right knee, scraped free of skin. Lifting up the other pant leg, I notice a lump the size of a small lemon developing above my knee. Funny, I don’t remember that looking like that before.
After a short call to my Dr., he agrees to see me in his office. Nothing dangerous aside from my ego, the swollen knee, the bruises that will develop tomorrow, both arms ache, my wrist hurts, my scraped knee oozing. My blood pressure is 180 over 130. Evaluated for a stroke, but no, I’m just graceful. Go home with Naproxin and ice and a promise that I will feel much worse tomorrow.
Ok, you can stop laughing now.
I am a Time Management Addict
November 15, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Its true. There is no cure for this disease. Those of who have it wander from time management system to the next. If it needs doing, we make a list about it. We’ve tried planners, filofaxes, calendars, software, hardware, mobile devices, you name, it, we try it.
Marketing with Evernote
October 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Evernote is a web based product that enables the user to “clip” content from the web and save it in the Evernote cloud for later retrieval. One of the amazing ways you can use it for marketing is that horrible process called exchanging business cards.
You walk away from a business event, your pockets crammed full of business cards. By the time you end up back at the office, you barely remember why you have any of them. There was the guy at the hotel you met, the company with the exciting new product you definitely had an interest in, what was his name again, where is his card?
Enter Evernote. You can use Evernote on your iPhone and take a picture of the business card. You can add additional tags, so the information you wanted to remember with the business card is stored with the business card. Evernote will scan and index the text on the card and enable you to do a search on that text later. At the next business event, you can head back with all the business cards and their information tucked away online.
Oh, How I Needed this Today
September 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
For me, this song has such a deep meaning. Its something I remind myself of all the time.
The next time life gets you down, remember – This Too Shall Pass.
I may order their entire album.
