In response to last week’s post, Why red?, my close friend and anthropologist to the stars (marketing stars, that is) , Tom Maschio wrote a comment that was so interesting I had to post it. Please read below. In Polynesia and Melanesia red is a sign of Mana – effectiveness, force, power.  Where I worked in [...]

I got a reaction to my blog yesterday that bothered me.  A friend of mine, in the nicest way possible, dismissed the blog (before reading it) as not suited to her because she didn’t think she could be beautiful.  I was kinda bummed and my husband, in his infinite wisdom, gave me some perspective.  ”People [...]

I was sitting in my plastic surgeon’s office yesterday (now, don’t start visualizing images of body dysmorphism, I’ll explain why I was there in a bit…) seeing the results of major sun damage via one of those special cameras that can see beneath the skin’s layers.  And let me tell you, the image wasn’t pretty. [...]