Why is that? Somehow we connect to the soul of the speaker! Just like two actors can speak and deliver the exact same line. But with one person makes shivers run up and down your spine while [...]
The ‘You Do You’ mandate eliminates a vital step and without it most feel lost and on unsure footing. I still remember distinctly a high school friend Beate whose fantastic doodling left me [...]
This doesn’t have to involve anything as drastic as minimalism, capsule wardrobe or tidying using the Kon Mari method. From the images you pop on your walls, to the scents you allow to fill your [...]
Like Karen, I had a ‘stormy’ relationship with an on-and-off again boyfriend at that time, It was a particularly vulnerable time in my life. Like Karen, I felt defined by ’Not Being Enough.’ [...]
As a young child I desperately wanted to be a runway model. These gorgeous creatures seemed to have overcome ugliness, need, dependence. They lived in another world, one of elegance and beauty [...]
Being a nerd with a previous life in academics, a much less widely known book: Thomas Kuhn’s 1962 classic looks at the same phenomenon from a different perspective. Scientific revolutions it [...]
In an interviewed recently, I was asked about how I created the transition from my prestigious and high-paying job as a university professor at UCLA to successful woman entrepreneur. Looking at [...]
What if we could Delight in the Imperfect? It’s great to hear words of (uncommon) wisdom but when it comes to applying it in our daily lives it’s quite a different matter. Have you ever found [...]
Acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar’s magical movie All About My Mother is all about that. Identity. It is not given to you at birth or handed to you in a bag of genetic markers. [...]