I hate the calendar and love Mandy Patinkin
Enough enough enough holidays! Don’t mind my grinchiness. Don’t get worried about me. I don’t have a dark past where I was given up to an uncaring, drunk foster mom with a greasy boyfriend on...
View ArticleOy. These people and their “biz” rules.
“Excuse me. You can’t have dogs in here.” That’s what everyone with a dog was told at the Silverlake Farmer’s Market in LA when I was visiting last year. Not by a cop. By my 4-year-old nephew, Samson....
View ArticleWhat are you “worth”?
I see a lot of blogs and Facebook conversations about “earning the income you deserve” and “charging what you’re worth.” Someone on FB will say, “I raised my prices and one of my clients said I was...
View ArticleThis is for the lazy ones.
I’ve helped a lot of coaches with their copy. Life coaches, wellness coaches, joy coaches, high-performance coaches, abundance coaches, gluten-cleanse coaches, empowerment coaches, vibrational...
View ArticleThe #1 saddest use of website real estate
#copywritingtip: You’ve got that big, beautiful header and that’s what you’re going to put in it? “Welcome to my website”? ⠀ Or even, “WELCOME. WE’RE SO GLAD YOU’RE HERE.”⠀ ⠀ First of all, we know...
View ArticleThe real secret to a million-dollar business
Back in like, 1999, I kept getting calls from a collection agency for a mobile phone bill I’d already paid. Yes, I’d paid it late — to a previous collection agency, which, because collection agencies...
View ArticleUgly turkey, gratefulbragging and vaguesicking: 3 things I can do without...
I love when a holiday’s over! That doesn’t mean I hate holidays, or hate turkey (I like it fine, especially the skin), or hate joy. I’m not a monster. What drains me is when everyone’s doing and...
View ArticleEnough with the V-word!
There’s a word I’m sick of. Not awesomesauce or amazeballs. Both of those sound swampy and musky and wet or hairy, respectively, but they’ve become so common they’ve worn me down. Not woke, though I...
View ArticleBooks vs TV: Which Is Smarter?
I’m feeling very accomplished. I watched all of Transparent on Saturday. But I know that doesn’t count as an accomplishment. Reading a book in a day is impressive. Watching a season on Amazon Prime...
View Article“Mansplaining” should never have been a word. (On the dopiest portmanteau...
Chocoholic. Faux-hawk. Netiquette. Tanorexic. Jazzercise, glitterati, Brangelina. I love a good portmanteau. You know, that kind of word that’s a combo of two words and usually a twist on a longer one....
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