BlogWorld & New Media Expo is right around the corner, May 24-26, taking place at the Javits Center in New York City. This is the world’s largest blogging and social media conference, and it’s known worldwide for presenting internet luminaries and entrepreneurs, the most popular and knowledgeable bloggers, podcasters and social media marketing thought leaders.Read… Read more »
You know how when we are growing up and our parents say the stupidest things? Things like “I brought you into the world and I can take you out” or “Because I said so, that’s why”. Good times…good times. If you’re like me, you promised yourself that your wouldn’t say such stupid things. I stuckRead… Read more »
When I pick out books that I want to write about for this column, I try to pick interesting titles. Titles that will provoke, but will be a good read. Above all, if you take my recommendation I want to make sure that you like the book. It was with this in mind that IRead… Read more »
I approached this book with trepidation. Financial books are not my purview, but the author Michael Lewis had written the massive best-seller “The Blind Side” so I trusted his ability to keep me engaged. His credentials to write a book on the financial industry were established with his first book “Liar’s Poker.” I opened theRead… Read more »
I will tell you right off the bat that I could not wait to get my hands on this book. And it did not disappoint. The story is fascinating subject to me, and the way the story is told is wonderful ‘what-if’ of how the these two men came to be the most famous hoardersRead… Read more »
The town of Clarkston, GA never wanted to represent anything. It did not want to make an impact, be studied, written about in newspapers, visited by media, or become a hub of diversity. But Clarkston got all that and more. This small town on the outskirts of Georgia is where many families go once theyRead… Read more »
Ever meet someone, so truly fascinating, that you walk away and say to yourself- I bet he has some GREAT stories to tell? Well, Jerry Weintruab is that person, and the stories he has are fascinating, funny, heartwarming, and entertaining. Who is Jerry Weintraub, you ask? He is the person who single-handedly changed how youRead… Read more »
Henrietta Lacks is immortal. She didn’t aim to be immortal, she just wanted to get better. She knew she was sick, and when she went to Johns Hopkins one day for a biopsy on a ‘knot inside her’ the doctor took a slice of her cervix tumor and give it to a lab at theRead… Read more »
I was an Army wife for over 12 years, I have been through deployments galore, and when President Bush announced there would a surge in an effort to quell the violence in Iraq, my heart went out to all the soldiers who would be deployed, extended, or stop-loss’ed due to it. Everyone else was thinking-Read… Read more »
I know that I just finished a review for GovReads (available here) but as you know, if you read it, I was not all that enamoured of it. So I really wanted to choose a book that was a great choice for Women’s History Month and this year’s theme (Writing Women of Color Back intoRead… Read more »