Growing up I was a snow day wisher. I’d actually not do homework the night before anticipating snow days. For the only days out of the entire school year, I’d actually wake up an hour before I needed to and turn the radio on to that special station that announced storm cancellations every 15 minutes. Snow days were like finding a $10 bill in your jeans that you had forgotten about, and generally frivolously wasted accordingly.
Working as an adult in Maine, I’ve learned that I never appreciated …

I mentioned last week the panel of sorts that I sit on for women trying to start their own businesses. The woman who presented to us, while being a perfectly nice woman, didn’t really have any idea where she wanted her business to go. A sort of haphazard approach to a start-up, which I have never seen end well in the infancy stages of new businesses.

The one piece I did vaguely understand was that she was basing her business on a movie she had made. A …

I recently sat at a luncheon meeting listening to an entrepreneur talk about her start-up business. The meeting consisted of other successful women in their professional fields and business owners themselves.
The woman had a fantastic idea for a company centering around becoming a personal historian. She is funding this endeavor by making DVD’s of her family’s own history and a book she is looking to get published. Her execution and vision are a little rough though…she isn’t sure how much she wants to make, how much her …

I can’t lie…I stole the title from an old college classmate, Jon Duke.
When news leaked earlier this week about Alex Rodriguez’s sordid past and alleged steroid use I’m not going to lie…as a rabid Red Sox fan my heart did a little leap in my chest. I can’t quite explain it, I know nothing about A-Rod. But when he shunned my boys in blue and red, well, he shunned an entire nation and I just can’t stand for that.
Now that the story has been confirmed my heart fell. …