Watch Your Language!
- December 13, 2013
When you go to a networking event and someone asks, “What do you do?” what do you say? Do you answer with an “I” statement, like “I handle pest control for high-end hotels” … or…
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February 25, 2014
Bill the Bull stares at me with brown glassy eyes. He sits forlornly in the middle of a large, padded basement pen in a dark midtown NYC restaurant. The damp hint of stale beer gently lingers in the air. His sad face beckons “Play with me! Play with me!” The nearly-empty room ignores him. (It is 2pm on President’s Day, after all). He has fabric horns where bone? keratin? used to be. No saddle. Reins made of reinforced duct tape … which also holds together his brown cloth coat. Bill is Johnny Utah’s mechanical bull. (The only mechanical bull in Manhattan!). And this cowgirl’s goin’ riding. Oy. It’s part of a pact I made with sister Dirty Girl, Nance Schick. One activity a month that stretches our comfort zones. Or is totally wacky … and a risk to our sense of pride. And is fun. I climb on Bill’s back. He bucks up and down. I have one goal in mind: Don’t. Fall. Off. I grab the rolled duct tape reins tighter and tighter, scraping…
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