This is a horribly backlit photo, but it is President Obama addressing the AP Annual Luncheon in DC, and I am in the front row.  If you Google “Obama April 3, 2012,” you’ll find video of his presentation that day and coverage of it, with plenty of juicy adjectives and verbs, such as “bitter,” “slammed,” [...]

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In 2011, Japan suffered an earthquake and tsunami which killed tens of thousands and cause a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.  The British newspaper The Guardian reported the following: “The report criticised the use of the term soteigai, meaning unforeseeable, which it said implied authorities were shirking responsibility for what had happened. It said by labeling [...]

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Teeny tiny progress.  Maybe invisible progress.  Maybe even backward progress, by certain measures.  Are you experiencing that? Welcome to the world of decoherence. Decoherence, if you have not heard me define it before, is the universe’s method for turning quantum possibility into reality. It’s also the method you use to turn your desired possibilities into [...]

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 I have been extraordinarily touched by the stories of my friends and strangers that are suddenly finding themselves unemployed, or who fear for their jobs in the next round of layoffs.  I have been on both sides of this fence–being laid off and having to lay people off–and neither one is a pleasant place to [...]

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The Secret to Great Writing and Editing – From a Southerner, No Less | michael romaner. If you were able to make it to my interview with radio host and social media storytelling expert Sandra Lee Schubert yesterday, then you’ll appreciate these tips collected by my digital media expert husband, Michael Romaner, picked up in Oxford, [...]

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Have you ever had a time in your life when you wanted to do something you really wanted to do, but weren’t really sure what you wanted to do?  Are you sick of hearing that if you follow your passion the money will follow, because you have no idea what you’re passionate about? That’s just [...]

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You’ve probably heard that you can’t manage what you’re not measuring, but the inverse is true as well. You can’t measure what you’re not managing. But I bet you’re still trying. You’re still trying to measure your impact on things that you have absolutely no control over. The key is understanding what it is that [...]

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Scientists have discovered that cells grown in 3-D spaces such as gelatins behave differently and more powerfully than when their growth is limited to flat, two-dimensional environments like petri dishes. Limiting the cells’ growth to a flat space changes the metabolism, gene expression and growing patterns of the cells. When given three dimensions in which [...]

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And could you run it?  My husband Michael and I ran the ING Miami Marathon this past Sunday, and it was an expanding experience! I discovered a new threshold of pain that I’m able to tolerate and still persist. I discovered a new and expanded limit to my physical ability. I discovered new tools to [...]

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