Find Your Den of Dorks

March 21, 2012 in Blog, Embrace Your Dork

The entire arena is filled with throbbing dance music and cheering dancing people, wearing costumes and waving streamers.  The rise and fall of the chants and fight songs is reminiscent of a High School Friday football game against archrivals. However, this event is louder, more colorful, brighter, sparkly-er somehow, and pulsing with actual brilliance. This… Read more »

Flow with the Go

January 31, 2012 in Blog, Motivation/ Go. Be. Do!

Biology Teacher.  That is actually what I wrote on my college applications.  Biology?  Teacher?   What? While I can’t even remember why I wrote that (ode to my cute high school physics teacher perhaps) it makes me smile, because I know the person who wrote that wanted to be a BIOLOGY TEACHER dammit!  And she is… Read more »

Self Promotion

January 26, 2012 in Blog, Career

Once upon a time, I was the Assistant Designer for Banana Republic evening-wear, swim-wear, active-wear, and intimates.  I was part of an International Design Team housed in a gorgeous old warehouse in the garment district of NYC with gothic pillars and floor to ceiling windows and an open limit shopping account.   My boss was a… Read more »