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June 19, 2025
Lessons from Graduation
I’m lucky enough to have been a guest at two graduation ceremonies in the past month. Pretty hard to get Pomp and Circumstance out of my mind. They had to play it for so many hours.
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June 12, 2025
The ROI of Workplace Laughter
ROI is not an acronym I would have referenced even five years ago. Not to mention CPL, B2B, EOD or KPI! Back then I even found LOL a little cringe. And who would have thought the word cringe itself would someday be used not only as a verb, but a noun and an adjective too?
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June 4, 2025
Is Workplace Etiquette Dead?
It’s been over a hundred years since Emily Post wrote her original guide on proper etiquette.
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May 30, 2025
A Dog? Who Me?
“Dani, is that your dog?” I heard from across the street. It was my neighbor, but she wasn’t just any neighbor, she had also been my bridesmaid. We’d known each other for over fifteen years. She hadn’t seen me since we t
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May 21, 2025
Another Piece in the Dementia Diagnosis Puzzle Approved!
Something to cheer about! This week the Alzheimer’s Association put out this statement:
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May 15, 2025
Celebrating Small Businesses
When I was in high school nurturing my Liza Minelli aspirations, getting cast in the spring musical was everything. Casting would determine the second half of the school year. Playing Townsperson #7 for me and the other theater nerds in class was a surefire way to send us sobbing into pillows. To soften the blow, every year the drama teacher, any drama teacher from grammar school to high school, would always remind us, “There are no small parts, only small actors.”
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May 7, 2025
Connection, Connection, Connection!
Little known fact, I grew up in the restaurant business. After we relocated to Connecticut from New York City, my father turned his avocation as a commercial real estate broker into a full time job. Analyzing and selling restaurants was his passion. He, and by extension our whole family, became very aware of the singular importance of location. Leaving a restaurant with a two hour wait or one with a room of empty tables, one of us would inevitably blurt out, “Location, location, location!”
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April 30, 2025
Laugh It Off: Is This Really an Employee Wellness Tool?
Laughing It Off: Is this really an Employee Wellness tool?
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April 24, 2025
How To Talk to A Person with Dementia
I taught my memoir class for Avocet this week. Although I’ve been meeting with this same fourteen people weekly for four years, most of our classes are on ZOOM. I hadn’t seen them IRL for at least four months. I also have a few new students, one of them who is 98, who I had never met in the flesh. Full disclosure, it took me a minute to adjust. It was as if I’d been watching “The Golden Girls,” in my office and suddenly I was sitting at a table with Beatrice Arthur, Estelle Getty and Betty White!
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April 18, 2025
Disconnect to Connect: 5 Ways to Put Down your Phone and Get Present!
I taught my memoir class for Avocet this week. Although I’ve been meeting with this same fourteen people weekly for four years, most of our classes are on ZOOM. I hadn’t seen them IRL for at least four months. I also have a few new students, one of them who is 98, who I had never met in the flesh. Full disclosure, it took me a minute to adjust. It was as if I’d been watching “The Golden Girls,” in my office and suddenly I was sitting at a table with Beatrice Arthur, Estelle Getty and Betty White!
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April 9, 2025
“We’ll get through this as a family."
That line — “We’ll get through it as a family” — is one of the last lines we hear Thomas Ratliff say in the season finale of The White Lotus. Given everything that’s happened up to this point, it really makes you pause and think… Will they?
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April 2, 2025
5 Books to Help You Laugh in Stressful Times
Tricky times to try to lighten the mood, am I right? As such, I’ve put together a list of books for managing the headline drama. I don't mean to be hyperbolic but it’s feeling…what’s the word? Rampant.
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