That's Greta Garbo. Every once in awhile I'll see someone who says she's fed up and wants to be left alone. I think it's a Greta Garbo line, I 'vant to be alone, but it's not hers exclusively. Greta doesn't own it. A person can have a million reasons for wanting to be alone, but one of the more inte...

But some, maybe more than we’d like to admit, have a less than admirable motive for their comments. Some don’t want Mom to have outside care, because outside care is expensive. And outside care will quickly eat up their parents’ hard-earned money – the money the family was to inherit....

I find being told that I am overreacting or being overly sensitive very demeaning, especially when I feel I have a valid reason for feeling a certain way.  I think many woman can relate to being told that they are just PMSing when they get angry with their husbands or significant others for say...

Driving to church Sunday morning at 8:15 a.m., I spotted a man walking on the other side of the divided highway. Having never seen a pedestrian on our highway in nearly eight years of living in the area, I found him incongruous. He wore casual business clothes, something out of a Dockers ad, and had...

Stephanie Massler examines how brand enthusiasm impacts media buying on Doe Anderson. Stephanie provides two thoughtful examples and offers five guidelines for an advanced media purchasing framework. These include focusing not on how many people you reach, but in how you are able to connect with you...

Life when this blog began: I quit a job in publishing, was off for a few months, and ended up taking contracting work at Telstra (which was to be the nightmare of my adult working life). There were no sex writing plans. I had a lot of questions about sex and relationships, and maintained a skeptical...

Every once in awhile I'll get a g-talk message from A Mother in Israel. She'll say something like, "Shouldn't you be asleep?" You have to love that. She's up because she's 8 hours ahead. And she knows what time it is in Chicago. So I was about to do that, go to sleep at a proper hour. The fish tank ...

Something Could Change copyright © 2008 Betsy L. Angert.  BeThink.org Come 2009, I will commence on a new path. I will exercise regularly, smoke not at all.  A healthy diet will become my regime.  On Monday, January 5, my life mission will be realized in my work.  The opport...

If you do not want that your kids are running the latest ID software blockbuster, that someone snoops around in your email client or that someone destroys your perfect win streak in Solitaire you might want to consider using a software like Empathy which can password protect any executable file. Emp...

It's a great read and very heartening to those of us who study and read about memory problems to the point that we can hardly have a conversation with a colleague without wondering, on the sly, if he or she is slipping just a bit - especially if that colleague is over the half-century point in life....