I just witnessed a mind blowing Frontline special called “Generation Like” (video here )… The power of a like. The comparison between Hunger Games and social media was not far off. Kids of this generation (myself included) inundated daily by whether or not a photo being liked has anything to do with your mental status throughout […]
The Hopeless Romantic Me I love love. Ask anyone. I’m that girl that cries at Hallmark commercials…or this Budweiser commercial…ugh don’t even get me started… I love that feeling of butterflies and obsessive compulsive (yet non-stalking) thoughts of thinking about if that person is thinking about you at that very second…it makes me […]
I am not a brand girl. I don’t care about the latest Coach or Michael Kors. Yes, give me two options, and I tend to pick the most expensive, but also have a hella lot of Target and H&M in my wardrobe. And I honestly don’t remember the last time I bought a pair of […]
I have no idea why I feel bad, but I do. It’s not like I set out to do that. But then, people that I haven’t talked to in quite a while are asking, “was it really you? Cause it doesn’t sound like you, but then, I don’t know. We haven’t talked in a while, […]
I realize I need to write more if I ever want to make this blog anything other than my “other” journal. And having learned that another blog I follow has an ad that is worth $20,000…maybe I should be paying attention to this more. But here’s the thing…I don’t have a niche – I don’t […]
A Portrait of the ever changing media landscape The ever changing media landscape has reared its ugly head once again. The Chicago Sun-Times laid off its ENTIRE photography dept. Those photos that can capture a feeling…tell the story in an instant…leave us breathless and speechless without so much as a caption or byline….gone. Wiped out […]
Another day, another commute. I’ve actually missed you, train. Getting to a train early has proven a clever experiment in human behavior, namely the first true day of glorious weather only Chicagoians know how to enjoy…that first crack at humidity, that first bead of actual sweat from walking outside…as you glance around, you see quite […]
A 24-year old girl was killed today at an intersection near my work…one that I have crossed over…one that I have many a times sped through. Don’t know the circumstances of it all, all I know is a 24-year old woke up this morning, and by 9am, she was dead. With this last week being […]
I may or may not have met Roger Ebert exactly once in my life…I think I was in my tweens, when my Mom was working on Siskel & Ebert, and I may or may not have sat in one of his iconic theatre chairs. I may or may not have produced a promo for the […]
Unplugging from this matrix we call life is pretty hard, especially for this hard-wired gal. Having just spent the better part of my stay-cation catching up on season 1 of Game of Thrones (curses, #watchathon!) among other DVR classics, it came to no surprise that with all the distraction of our plugged-in society, I haven’t […]