Category Archives: Fun And Personal
Cutting Up The Social Media Pie: Let’s Go To The Videos
INTRODUCTION There are so many parts and facets of social media. Just attempting to keep up with them can put one into a dizzying tail spin. So what I thought might be fun, every once in a while, is to present a particular slice of the social media pie as its own post topic. Today …
A Blog Post a Day, they say. I say, Are You Crazy?
My biggest challenge has been that I want to know EVERYTHING about this social media and I want to know it YESTERDAY. Neither of these is possible. But I have come to not only see the dots, and have started to connect them to the extent that the gaps are filling in. It is starting to make sense, a lot of sense. It is also a thing of great beauty in my eyes.
The Oilcloth Backpack
On my gifts wish list this past holiday season, I had included an oilcloth backpack. Keep in mind, I had no idea if such a thing existed but I had decided that I wanted one. Since I knew about oilcloth and had other items made from it, I decided that a backpack must be available, …
Communities of Culture and Class
When I moved back to my childhood home on LI from NYC in 1988, I was both excited and hesitant. What would I find? Would there be plenty of what interested and was required of me? Or would I find that my exodus from the great metropolis had led me to cultural scarcity devoid of …
Our Carless Weekend
The Carless Weekend
No, there is not a misspelling in the title of this blog; it does mean without a car, not without a care. This blog is about last weekend and the decision we made to go without having use of a car. Understand that it was not intentional or due to some altruistic, ecological motivation on our part. At least, it was not that way initially.
Reflection on the Holidays’ End
I decided this year that I wanted to experience the essence of the holiday of Passover and holy week which ended with Easter basically coincided this year. That somehow made the whole things especially sacred to me; but I was looking for an answer that did not lie in the religious books of either Judaism …
Alison*s Marketing Bytes Blog is my journey into the 21st Century
Well, I have finally made it. After a year and 60 issues of Marketing Bytes: Business Issues, The Newsletter, Alison*s Marketing Bytes Blog has been born. While the Marketing Bytes Newsletter focused solely and exclusively to issues related to business, this blog will take the liberty of featuring other issues of interest as well. There …
