Gift from Uncle Walt in the hipsters pocket.

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  I saw him stuffing his new school id and some cash into a wallet. I grabbed his hand and asked where he found it. “Under my bed. In a box of a bunch of old stuff’. Yes. A box of ‘old stuff’- childhood memories of artwork and school awards and well…this wallet. It is [...]

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Hey marketers. Just a thought.

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Instead of thinking of ways to motivate people to buy your product – why not focus on solving the consumer’s pain points. Solve for those, and the buying happens organically. I personally am tasked with ‘selling’ ideas, concepts and more. But I don’t approach it from pushing the purchase- I like to lay out how [...]

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How I found my body pic on a website.

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Like most of us, I live in my own little reality. I am a hell of a sales person, and can use those skills to talk my inner voice into just about anything. The problem is, some things I need to re-sell over and over and over, like my weight. “I am fat.” “I am [...]

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A reason for children.

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  My dad used to (jokingly I hope) say to us that he had kids so he never needed a remote control. That’s right you youngins. We used to GET UP to change the channel. Yes, EVERY TIME. Somehow I was reminded of that fun little tid-bit when I created the meme above. I imagine [...]

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Marcy’s Midlife Makeover #2: Endy Med Treatments 1-2

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Well I am still at it. Along with the help of my friends at the Leur Lab Integrated Aesthetics I still trying to turn back the time dial just a tiny bit. EndyMed is a 4 treatment process and I am halfway so thought it would be a good time to tell you about what [...]

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Amazon Collections: The why and the how

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Yesterday Amazon launched ePinterest! Oh I mean, they launched Amazon COLLECTIONS. You can see how I made the mistake can’t you? Yes, this screen shot is from my new board on Amazon that highlights the products I love when I travel (hey you go with what you know) and it looks almost identical to my [...]

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Is SXSW 2014 worth it?

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Yesterday it started. The Facebook posts and tweets about how much ‘better’ SXSW was in the ‘olden’ days. Frankly I find those statements  tend to come from the same people who insist on announcing that the ‘the book was so much better than the movie’; meaning that most of these people want you to know [...]

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I have inherited so much from my children.

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  As you all know by now, we went to Alaska recently. See here are two pics by nature, in nature, ON NATURE to prove it.  And btw if you are on my Christmas Card list, just know you will likely see these pics again. Sorry. But I am lazy. any whoo… Before Alaska was [...]

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Greatest gift. EVER.

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Recently I took a Disney cruise through Alaska. More on that whole experience later but for now let’s take a look at the world’s greatest gift a mother could have ever received. Here is the story: All over the Disney ships are photo studios. No really, they are back drops and lights and profesh photogs [...]

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