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Dec 16 2004

Gender Wars?

AOL is saying that more men are shopping online now, than women. Not only that, the ISP is saying that men are spending more money online than women.

The first notice–one of several I received, this week–came via a notice from MediaPost (subscription required), which posted an article by Gavin O’Malley on the topic, titled, “Men Open Their Wallets Online.”

According to the article, “On average, men spent $204 online each month, compared to $186 spent by women. Furthermore, 42 percent of men shopped for luxury goods online vs. 35 percent of women.”

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By Yvonne • News •

Nov 26 2004

What If?

This morning, waking up from a night of strange dreams–lost to the netherworld now–my fiance and I lingered in bed drinking coffee and watching the Early Show on CBS. This is so far removed from our normal lives, lives filled to the brim with work, house tasks and animal care (one large hairy german shepard and a fluffy, not fat, 11 year old cat), that it was some time before we (I) realized what we were watching wasn’t The Early Show at all.

It was Jane Pauley. Jane Pauley, for the uninitiated, is the former Early Show anchor, and…wife of Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist, Garry Trudeau, of Doonesbury fame. So, sue me for not knowing ABC from CBS from NBC. I know the WB…especially when Smallville is on!

Back to the cozy bedroom…even in the chill of the early morning, before the heat has kicked in. Tom and I are reading the paper, at least HE is reading the paper. I’m fixated on Jane Pauley and Tom Brokaw, her one and only guest. Finally, I turn to Tom and say, “I could have been Jane Pauley.”

I could have been. Except for lack of opportunity.

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By Yvonne • Views •

Oct 31 2004

The Wonder of it All

Is it the rush of the year coming to an end — complete with those endless torturous political commercials dominating the TV waves — or is it just me, but, is time revolving faster than ever before? Does anyone else feel the earth move…and I’m not referring to the old Carly Simon song…out of sync with the rest of your life?

My business is struggling to move ahead…not in the ‘we may be out of business soon’ aspect, but in the ‘there is so much to do, so many opportunities out there, how do I pick the right one to take’? All of which makes me nervous and prone to wondering if I’m where I should be. Here’s what I think: if half of LIFE is IF, the other half is wondering IF…

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By Yvonne • Views •

Oct 21 2004

How ’bout them Yankees?

I know, it should be, “How ’bout them Red Sox” but the Yankee’s quote is more familiar. Don’t know how many of you were following the games these last few days, but the whole world is talking about them today. It’s always exciting to be a part of history — especially when the history in the making isn’t about war, or bombs, or famine.

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By Yvonne • News •

Oct 10 2004

The Poet by Michael Connelly

I’m a big Edgar Allan Poe fan, in fact, I have his picture on a file cabinet to my left and often look over at him during the day, musing on what his life must have been like. I love his dark writings, I feel a kinship to his melancholy approach to life. The pureness of his writing, its cadence and imagery, has always spoken to me more effectively than any other writer.

When I was given a mystery novel which purported to use Edgar Allan Poe’s writings in its theme, I was reluctant, at first, to read it. It seemed an insult to him, to the craft of mystery writing, to the expertise apparent in almost everything Poe has ever written. After all, how could a mere 20th century novel (this book was written in 1996, published by Little, Brown and Company) capture Poe’s brooding style, the grainy shadows of his descriptions, the sense of being trapped in a musty, forgotten well on a plantation forgotten by man and time?

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By Yvonne • Reviews •

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