A Visual Storyteller: Marilyn Lanfear makes art about life using buttons and lead
In artist Marilyn Lanfear’s bedroom hangs a huge panel depicting a woman, a large old-fashioned bed and three small children. Titled Every Night She Latched All the Windows, Locked All the Doors and Put the Babies in Her Bed, the panel is based on a story Lanfear’s grandmother told her. The little boy in the […]
The Right Clothes For You: Controlling the wrath of grapes, apples, pears, green beans and other body types
Whether you’re “built” or can pass as Bill, it seems practically all of us would like to change something about our bodies. Just look at all the ads for products and services to do just that. Wanna lose weight? There are bazillions of pills, shakes, herbs, teas, juices, bars, frozen and other types of packaged […]
Smart Move: Get customer/client feedback
Do you really know how your customers/clients feel about your products or services? And even if they’re very satisfied, wouldn’t you love to know if they have any ideas for improvements? The simplest way to find out is to ask! Now you might send out some type of “customer satisfaction” survey on a regular basis, […]
Job Hunt: Your resume is you
“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.” –Norman Vincent Peale In the last issue, we talked about getting your job search skills out of the Stone Age by using social networking sites, cleaning up your Google results, making your e-mail address and […]
Greens, Revisited: Updated versions of an old favorite
In her book, Mediterranean Grains and Greens, celebrated cookbook author and culinary hunter-forager Paula Wolfert relates a telling Turkish folk story. She writes: “During the reign of Sultan Abdülhamud II (1876-1909), a doctor was appointed to a medical posting in Crete. The doctor took the assignment, but nobody turned up at his surgery claiming that […]