Many of you have read my laments about my lack of culinary skills on this blog…I have proudly proclaimed on more than one occasion that I’m not a foodie. However, last week, while visiting family, in idle conversation, they told me I was “getting foodie-ish.” I made that term up, because they said something else that IContinueContinue reading “It’s all relative”
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Do you have the guts to do something like this?
http://youtu.be/wrWszhZ4XRA Yuki Beppu is part of the reason I came to work at From the Top. When I saw her perform at a live recording back in October, I remember being slack-jawed at her classical playing. Next, she came to the mic and charmed us all with her tales of wanting to get more classicalContinueContinue reading “Do you have the guts to do something like this?”
Things non-profit marketers must know
A word to anyone out there considering a job in arts marketing for a small or medium-sized arts organization. There will be days when your job is so far from “marketing” that you will shake your head and wonder what happened. Days, for example, when you get an email like the one below, and nodContinueContinue reading “Things non-profit marketers must know”
Retracing steps
You know those management personality quizzes? Every time I take one, it tells me that I’m the kind of person who likes to “get things done”. It also tells me that this trait, while valuable in a manager/leader, may also backfire. And I can tell you from experience, it does. I have gotten into trouble, onContinueContinue reading “Retracing steps”
Losing everything but my mind…hopefully
When I look back on this week, I am thoroughly shocked that I have managed to be here, on my couch, with my dog beside me and a casserole in the oven. Surely, at any moment, I’m going to realize something disastrous I have done, or forgotten to do. I just know it. Because, y’all, it’s notContinueContinue reading “Losing everything but my mind…hopefully”
Everything and a Racehorse 