Posts by Carol Ross
Mutant Man
Halloween is tomorrow. My 13-year old has decided he doesn’t need to work so hard to get candy. He stays in and gets the leftovers without stepping outside of the house. (Ahhhh, if work could be as easy!) My 11-year old, Andy, still goes trick or treating. He has had trouble coming up with a…
Read MoreTen Minutes, Two Worlds
Note: The folllowing post was written in June 2006. For some reason, I was reluctant to publish it at that time. Now, it seems perfectly appropriate. So here it is. I have been wondering how our life experiences can be so perfectly designed. Recently, I visited two friends who live in the foothills outside of…
Read MoreDouble Takes
Two things caused me to do a double take recently. Here’s the first one: It’s a bottle of Evian water in a hotel room, selling for $5. Yes, that’s right, five bucks. It made me wonder what the mini-bar prices looked like. The bottle was placed strategically on the desk in the room, for the…
Read MoreEngineers with a Whole New Mind
Last month, I was on the campus of Northwestern University to interview fellow alum, Dan Pink, on applying his book, A WHOLE NEW MIND, to shape one’s career. The interview itself was great fun–Pink’s brain is crammed with facts and figures and he’s a quick wit. What I noticed in our conversation is how easily…
Read MoreQuestion #11
This is the last Q+A that Ilene sent me, less than two weeks before she died. Typically, she would wait for me to email her a question and then she would email her reply. She found it easier to answer a question that I posed, rather than write spontaneously. The last couple of questions in…
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