Why is it accepted for a woman to be stupid as long as she’s beautiful?” “Why can women be objects of desire in advertising but shunned if they seek contraception for casual love affairs?” “Why must women choose between a family and a career when men don’t have to?” These are the questions that Ana [...]
Archive | September, 2011
Diving In and Letting Go
Years ago I spent at lot of time in Toronto working for a large retail client. During the project’s bone chilling winter, the project sponsor Anne and I became close. We spent many afternoons braving snowy sidewalks to explore café menus and deep conversations. Our retail planning chit-chat quickly evolved to theories on friendship and [...]
Desert Detox Lessons
“I need to redo my life, “I said. “You are always redoing your life,” said a friend But I wasn’t really redoing…I was just adding on. I had accumulated too many projects, too many hobbies, too many identities. Without focus I was becoming meaningless. In the words of Robert Hanson, President of Levi’s North America, [...]
From “Faux pen” to Open
“What is the best thing you have done with your life?” people ask. Without skipping a beat I cite a road trip I took across the US to interview women who defied convention. In dim diners, tequila bars, and strip clubs I documented raw conversations that captured the depth of the human spirit and the vastness [...]