Why I Love American Express

For 25 years I’ve been paying for an American Express Platinum Card and asking myself why.

Yesterday I found out.

I found myself on a rare trip to New York City in December. I did not make my own reservations, and the client…

Words matter.

I cannot believe that Google will not fire him for this manifesto. Or at the very least get him into an employee assistance program. This guy needs help. Especially because we are now in the midst of the greatest discussion about gender in the history of Silicon Valley, and the women have decided it’s okay to…

Apple’s Dirty Little Secret: Its Software Sucks

STEM in the Inner City, a Tale of Death

Friday a dream of mine died an ugly and violent death at the hands of Arizona’s public charter school system. The system is governed by the Arizona State Charter School Board with the assistance of the Arizona Charter School Association, a “professional”…

A Glimpse at a Lonely Future

I was walking along Third Avenue in New York City this morning, and I came across the only empty (although…

A Woman Entrepreneur Gets Divorced

John’s and my divorce, like mine from husbands #1 and #2, was friendly and involved no attorneys. We split the property and nobody got alimony or child support. We still loved and trusted each other, but just couldn’t live together while I was so busy. John had been an…

Stealthmode and the Rising Entrepreneurship Tide

Because Stealthmode was born in 1999, in the height of the dot com boom, Ed and I, and the other five people who also wanted to start an accelerator naively thought it would be possible to start one and get paid for our efforts by funded…

Saving the Best Marriage for Last

I was sitting in the hair salon, getting my gray hair covered and having a conversation with Judy, the hairdresser. This was still in the early 90s, before smart phones and noise cancelling headphones replaced conversation in the salon. Judy, a middle European…

Growing Up in New York, 1940s style

To a child, New York in the forties seemed safe. It probably wasn’t, but we never knew it.