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These days, everyone has a perspective on the recession. Peggy Noonan, a writer who I admire for her straight talk, recently wrote about the psychological depression that has descended on this country, a collective gloom that's not likely to go away any time soon. She observes: "The heart-pumping drama of last September is gone, replaced…

The end justifies the means. At least that's what Ode magazine would have you believe, in an article titled "A Place to Call Home." Max Rameau, an activist for the homeless in Miami is held up as a role model for making a difference, by helping homeless people move into foreclosed homes. Would be nice…

I'd hang out with girl geeks any day. Photo by cambodia4kids.org Last week, I attended the Colorado Front Range Girl Geeks Dinner, hosted by Sun Microsystems in Broomfield, CO. Surrounded by 80+ intelligent, thoughtful women, interested in connecting, is nirvana for me. Oh yes, there was one man, Jeremy Tanner, who is well-known in social…

Transitions and change seem to be the centerpiece of my conversations these days. Friends and clients taking buy out packages, clients deciding to follow a new path out of lucrative profession and into the unknown, a colleague shuttering an office and changing direction slightly to make it through lean times, a friend deciding that the…