Tonight I took my daughter to see the movie Confessions of a Shopaholic, a guilty pleasure if there ever was one.

I was having a talk with a friend the other day–she’s a professor who regularly writes and speaks at industry conferences. This is an important part of her work since it impacts her credibility as well as her ability to get tenure at her university.

You don’t need me to tell you that the business climate is very uncertain, to say the least.

Since the time I was in high school I’ve been perplexed by the lack of resources available for helping kids figure out what they might want to do.

A story in the New York Times today really caught my eye. Entitled “Coming Up Short as a Role Model for the Mommy Track”, it compares Caroline Kennedy’s unceremonious exit from senate candidacy to the story of the first woman to attend Citadel in 1993 (she dropped out after just one week). Here’s the link, it’s a good read: 

Tomorrow, Wednesday, I’m going to be on the radio talking about careers in growth industries. Yes, believe it or not, even in the worst economy since the Depression, there are growing sectors!

At a bar mitzvah I attended yesterday, the boy spoke eloquently about the idea of serendipity. He described his favorite place in New York City to drink frozen hot chocolate (Serendipity, on E. 60th Street), and how he had just recently come to know the meaning of that word.

I’m generally pretty good about maintaining a positive attitude and I know what to do to keep my equilibrium. But man, reading the paper these days makes you want to jump off the nearest bridge. There’s just endless bad news.