Raise your hand if someone in your Facebook or Twitter News Feed posted about Oprah Winfrey being a wise choice to be the next president in the last 24-hours. Sunday night, Ms. Winfrey was the recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the Golden Globes and gave a rousing acceptance speech. It was a great speech, for someone winning an award for her contribution to television and cinema. But...what happened next??
Read MoreI learned my lessons from ’08 and ’12. Convention week is hard. There’s laughing, cheering, and sometimes crying – oh, yes, the crying. I thought I’d share a fun post about “what’s in my bag” as we all attempt to make it through this harrowing week of politics, panel discussions, and parties.
Read MoreI’ve been told I give good advice. I don’t believe that is true. I think I give good counsel. The difference? Advice is when you tell someone what to do. Counsel is when you tell someone what you see. I’ve been counseled and advised many times over in my forty years – professionally, amateurishly, selfishly, hilariously – and I have found the difference.
Read MoreThe New Year: a time to reflect? Yes! In the spirit of the year-end family newsletter, I decided to take a scroll down memory lane via my Twitter account. Let’s take a look back at a year’s worth of tweets, retweets and mentions from 2013.
Read MoreThe Atlantic’s Editor-in-Chief, James Bennett, posed a typical question at a typical Washington, DC event this week when he asked Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg where he fell along the political spectrum: liberal, conservative, or independent. Not surprisingly, atypical Zuckerberg gave an atypical answer.
Read MoreAugust 2013 marked my ten-year anniversary of living and working in Washington. To celebrate, I thought I'd share ten things I love about being in our nation's capital and the lessons I've learned.
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