Her short skirt…

On Monday night, I watched a screening of V-Day: Until The Violence Stops, a documentary about how Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues became V-Day, a global, grassroots movement to end violence against women. It is a moving, harrowing, beautiful film. I can’t imagine anyone watching it and not being affected. As you might expect, the film […]

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The Last Help j Monday

It’s the last Monday in January, which makes it the last day I’m going to ask you for advice. Ever. Promise. So I’m cheating. I’m asking for your go-to item… in five categories. Five pieces of advice for the price of one. (But don’t feel like you have to do all five. Jump in wherever […]

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I’m not sorry

I’m noticing how much women apologize. Generally speaking. Anecdotally, I’ve noticed this. (It’s j-science.) At the beginning of 2021, standing at a personal crossroads, I wrote this down on a piece of paper and put it on the bulletin board above my desk. “I want to lead a less apologetic and explanatory life.” I wrote […]

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Putting it out there

Earlier this month when I went to hear Chris Edgar talk about his book, Inner Productivity, he said something that struck home for me… uncomfortably. He was talking about procrastination, and he said it is often on our most important projects – the ones with the most pressing deadlines, and sometimes even the ones about […]

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I’ve always been terrible at that.

I am fascinated by koans. For this post, I looked up the actual definition. From Dictionary.com: A koan is a puzzling, often paradoxical statement or story, used in Zen Buddhism as an aid to meditation and a means of gaining spiritual awakening. Recently, not for the first time, this koan caught my attention: What did […]

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Helping… what’s her name.

Time for me to ask you for advice. But first, let me just say that you were all amazing last week when I asked for movie suggestions. I have 49 new movies in the queue! You guys rocked my Blockbuster world! Let’s see if you can do it again. Now that I’ve decided not to […]

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Affectionately Yours

So, lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about closing salutations. Wait, don’t go! This post will be intelligent, sexy, enlightening and maybe even profound (because the coffee I’m drinking is exceptional). It used to be easy. A few years ago, in email (where our correspondence covers the spectrum from professional acquaintance to lover), there were […]

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Saturday Silliness

Guess what I found last week when I was clearing out my workspace? My desk! Just as I’d suspected, it was there, under the papers and books and magazines and tiny woodland creatures. And something else was there: my totally awesome Curious Lists book! Woo-hoo! If you’ll recall, the book doesn’t actually supply me with lists, just […]

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It’s J-day!

It’s my birthday, and I’m feeling celebratory. The past year has been a roller coaster for me – one of the hardest and one of the best ones ever. I’ve never been less sure of myself… or more willing to go for it anyway. I’ve never felt more nervous… or more daring; more lost… or […]

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California Dreaming

Despite my posts that would seem to indicate otherwise, it’s been a while since I got in here without any notion of what I’d write.  I’ve written a lot today, nano and otherwise, and it feels like maybe I don’t have anything left for thetechntalk.com. And yet… I’ve been toying with a question-of-the-day post. Let’s […]

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