Business and Life: Trends

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“Dishwasher Fairy”

Don’t you just love it when she comes?  Somehow she sneaks in, and poof! She has emptied the dishwasher without your knowledge. You mosey into the kitchen, the scowl of “I have to empty the dishwasher” furrowing your brow and curving the corners of your mouth down. But imagine your surprise!  Hah. She came.  A […]

Head in the Clouds

How can one small 10 minute talk change your frame of reference? Check out the TED talk [ted id=1780] here, and see if it doesn’t change your day. We are buried in technology, bombarded by emails, stifled by content (yes, this is content!), and smothered in our own busy-ness. Huffing and puffing from one catastrophe […]

Nostalgia

Nostalgia   – \nä-ˈstal-jə, nə- also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl-\ : pleasure and sadness that is caused by remembering something from the past and wishing that you could experience it again. I don’t know about you, but I for one remember cups of coffee with friends, with family. I look into a thick white stocky cup and think of […]

Coffee!

Did you know that coffee is in most years the second most valuable product traded worldwide, after oil?  The International Coffee Organization (ICO) gathers and updates consumption, production, export, import and pricing information for coffee. Their work is important because of the unique makeup of the industry.  Coffee is produced (grown) in over 60 countries […]

The Business of Belief

I have just read The Business of Belief by Tom Asacker. Who knew there could be so much wisdom in such a small book? At 121 pages, it’s a quick read, and yet, the profoundness of each entry made me want to read it again. And again.  So I did. Here are some quotes: “Say […]

Summers Past

Heat. Humidity. Water to cool hot bodies. Reading books in a hammock. Tubing, water skiing, doing jigsaw puzzles, hiding from thunderstorms, picking frogs out of the meadow, listening to rain, seeing fish jumping out of the lake, eating cotton candy, smelling the wet sand, dipping feet in the lake, swimming, boating, doing nothing. Those are […]

Scrapbooking, anyone?

If you look at the Internet today, with everyone’s photos, movies, and lives chronicled across every forum imaginable, you might easily believe that paper holds no candle to virtual documentation. I was surprised, then, to see what I thought was a very large section of a well-known craft store dedicated to scrapbooking, and at the […]

Curated Brands

Curated Brands Posted on June 7, 2013 by kathrynatkins When is a post not a post? Hah. This post popped up on Twitter, but has yet to drop here.  It’s a mystery. Here it is today in my blog, and I hope it’s not a repeat for my followers. Until now,  I did not tend to […]

To achieve

To achieve great things, two things are needed: A plan and not quite enough time. ~ Leonard Bernstein I heard this Bernstein quote yesterday, but it didn’t sink in until the subconscious pulled it up to conscious. It’s plain awesome that this great American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist knew the value of […]

Tesla Motors, Autopilot Cars, You, Me, and Them

  For starters, if you want to find out more about Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, head over to the TED Talk for a recent interview. Otherwise, stand back to witness the future unfold before your very eyes.   I hear you from all the way over here in my blog […]