Feb. 14, 2020 An entire decade has passed since I wrote this and the 'self love' movement has blossomed, reminding all that social media showboating of relationships is not intimacy, and "love thyself" is a pathway to clear hearts and minds to manage all the media machinations. Love that youth are "getting it" and inoculating themselves from the social staging … [Read more...]
August 8, 2009 Who IS this hipster? Meet Drew Olanoff. Media geek. Mobile guru. Inspiration. Yesterday I wrote about kids' propensity to get their yucks at someone else's expense fostering an 'ouch, I can relate to that' empathy to bring humor to each life lesson... Today I want to focus on one of my favorite themes of 'turning a negative into a positive' and using new … [Read more...]
Feb. 21, 2009 Great book cover, eh? Kinda drives the point home to "Change The Way You See Everything" doesn't it? The book's not quite out yet, but I embrace the premise. I know it's more than airy fairy "half is glass empty or half full" platitudes or 'accentuate the positive' Pollyanna-isms because, well...that's not exactly my style, n'est ce pas? I tend to cut both … [Read more...]
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