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Since one of the best aspects of Pamela Skillings’ Escape from Corporate America is its stories of people who successfully escaped, I’m running my review of the book that appeared on A Storied Career’s parent site, Quintessential Careers. Escape from Corporate America: A Practical Guide to Creating the Career of Your Dreams, by Pamela Skillings, $15.

Through most of my life, at various times, various people have remarked I look like others. Just a few weeks ago, during an orientation, one of my colleagues decided I reminded her of the lost Baldwin brother. Back when I used to be a substitute teacher, I’d often hear, amid a flurry of giggles, that I looked just like the guy from N’Sync.

Why is it that my plans so aft gang agley as that annoying Scottish bloke Robbie Burns used to say?  It’s not even like I have mice. Yesterday afternoon I was feeling very chuffed with myself. Oscar had slept for most of the afternoon after a taxing morning at nursery.  I had finished the Amazon Vine

“Will having great hair give women that extra confidence to chase after their dreams and make them come true?” Apparently, the answer to this question is a resounding “Yes”. As part of the “Life Can’t Wait™” campaign which ran from April to the end of August, it was revealed in Sunsilk’s

The iPhone cometh…almost with high caliber gunfire and blood I’ve finally joined the ranks of the enlightened multitudes (as Ernest Lawrence Thayer would have called them) and purchased an iPhone. I got this fantastic gadget from a guy in a slightly seedy Jamaica Plain neighborhood, though it’s not what you think.

August 23, 2008 OK 10:45… not so early.. but hey… she’s on the road.. so all I have to say is…   Entry Filed under: general, life, sharing, thoughts. Tags: friends, fun, kidding, kool and the gang, party.

My Life’s Like A Movie - MOB (disclaimer: all audio files are here to promote the artists featured and are not intended to be downloaded or distributed. Please purchase the albums at amazon.com. If any artist. producer, record label.

RIP: Bo Taylor - La’s Unity One Founder - Peace Peace Peace Posted on August 18, 2008 - Filed Under ASID Newsbeat, Freedom Fighters, OUR~Story, R I P, Respect Is Due, Respect Life, Save Our Children, TEACH !! | Leave a Comment Darren ‘Bo’ Taylor, 42; former Crip became L.A.

The Hip-Hop Leaders (HHL) Program is a year-round after-school college prep, technology prep, and mentoring program.  The program uses the excitement and relevance of the hip hop culture and now skateboarding to connect with at-risk youth, then motivate and enable them to pursue higher education and technology careers.

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about my university days recently.  Not in a nostalgic, sepia, big hatted kind of way you understand.  It has more been thrust upon me by the indecent number of people from university who have recently sprung, mushroom-like into my life once more.  I blame Facebook.