I’m not late to the game on this one, I swear.  It’s just that I’ve been waiting.  Watching to see what Sarah Palin will do next.  Ever since her disastrous turn with Katie Couric, I’ve been anticipating her next public speaking snafu.  Why did I think she would make one?  Quite simply, because she admitted she didn’t know ...

Well, the gymnastics competitions that are my favorite part of the Olympic Games are over.   As usual, the events were dogged with controversy.  This year, it had mainly to do with the ages and scores of the Chinese gymnasts. In 1997, to counter the increasing trend towards younger and younger gymnasts, the International ...

At the gym, I was thumbing through a new issue of Time Magazine.  One of the articles was about college wait-listing.  According to Time, the high school class of 2008, 3.4 million strong, is the largest in American history.  As such, getting into a first choice college is a heck of a lot tougher if you had the misfortune of being ...

Every year, I get asked by one media outlet or another how to handle the office holiday party.  This year, I decided to share the advice I and others provided to the Wall Street Journal last weekend:   “We spend so much time communicating on Blackberries and e-mail, the office party is a rare opportunity to really meet the people who ...

Last week, Yahoo! ran a piece about people in the public eye who made big professional strides and damaging missteps during 2006, and how we can learn from their experiences.  Here are some of my thoughts on the subject, some of which were included in the article.   Amelie Mauresmo, who won two tennis majors this year after years of ...