• I’ve always believed in the healing power of laughter, but I didn’t realize what an affirming  lesson was in store for me recently when I  flew to Northern California to help celebrate  the 50th wedding anniversary of my late husband’s oldest brother Gerald and his wife Martha.  Both southerners, they met when he was stationed [...]

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  • Last week I met for holiday lunch with some truly distinguished professional friends of mine and we put aside the usual boundaries of business to share our biggest challenges and vow to support each other as entrepreneurs this coming year.  In general, business networking is a time when you concentrate on your strengths and act [...]

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  • Barbara Orbison died earlier this month – not a name that most of you will recognize, but a real heroine to me.  Barbara Orbison was a new widow with three young sons when she produced an amazingly powerful memorial concert in 1990 for her late husband, legendary musician Roy Orbison. It was her first huge [...]

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  • During the 2011 holiday season, we’re a year further into a stalled economy but we’ve also witnessed the phenomenal rise of the populist Occupy Wall Street Movement  and the death and legacy of a modern Einstein, Apple visionary Steve Jobs.    It seems a good time to repeat a blog I wrote last year about the [...]

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  • My brother Bill loves to restore cars and a few years ago he took on the project of restoring my grandfather’s 1929 Chevrolet.  I’m not surprised by his passion, since we grew up in Detroit and our parents worked in the auto industry.  Bill got a technical degree in engineering and followed my father’s footsteps [...]

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