I’m posting on Tuesday and not my usual Thursday because I have news. Sparks is now in print. It’s coming – here, there, everywhere! Ask for Sparks at your favorite bookstore. Sparks is being listed in the Ingram book catalogs. Got Sparks? (I always wanted to say that ;-))
Life rocks for Facebook, Google and other high-income, high-tech geeky types in Silicon Valley. In Sparks, the same is true for those living in Crescent City, and it’s even more upscale coastal neighbor Skye Pointe. They work hard. They play hard. At the end of the day, they stagger home – or somewhere else – […]
It took all summer, but just as Jarin will, I’ve put down my brush and pushed away from the easel for the last time. Sparks is ready to be published. Look for it in October, 2012. My marketing plan is helping me to plan and execute. The professionals I am meeting along the way are courteous, tremendously […]
It has to be me. I’m sophisticated, accomplished; a good fit for his family. My career is important enough to complement his, but not demanding enough to interfere with plans for family, travel or his advancement. I’ve spent five years planning my approach; watching each relationship, studying the mistakes made by those who’ve tried to […]
It started innocently – for me anyway—as such things often do. At a poetry reading. He hadn’t been attending, but saw me through the coffee bar window and came in specifically to meet me. A powerful man; so attentive. I was flattered and quickly gave him my heart. Seemingly alarmed that I, in his words, […]
Two halves of the same soul; together we were one. I wanted her life to be about me, and only me. But she refused to give up her’s to focus on mine. So I left her—to teach her a lesson. To make her feel what it would be like without me. She is stronger than […]
We all know that the Managing Partner is on his way to a Board position. One of us is to be his successor. To his credit, none of us has a clue which of us it will be. He has mentored us all; helped us all advance our careers. One among us wants the rest […]
Embarrassing as hell. We’re the premiere analysis company and we’ve been spied on and infiltrated—after one of our own analysts produced a seminal report on how to avoid such a situation. That’s what got the old guy fired. Well, not really. At this level of the game, you get asked to retire—not fired. Unless you’re […]
Make the bits fly, the disks spin. That’s what I do. There isn’t a computer I can’t hack, a network I can’t intrude. Lucky for you, I’m one of the good guys. The Deadly Elite call me their Girl Friday. Actually, there’s more than just me. My cadre of fellow technologists are the backbone of […]
It’s not my fault. It was my grandfather who squandered our inheritance, and he did it long before I was born. Still, I’m tainted by his failures just like all the rest of his descendants. On the other hand, his brother parlayed his fortune and now his children and grandchildren are growing it even more. […]
