Archive for March 2009

I believe there should always be a plan for your future, whether you choose to believe it is unfolded by a greater power, or you are the author of your own manuscript. There has to be a plan made and you are responsible for making it.
This week I have read a few blogs supporting this. [...]

Edith Luchins is an inspiration for any woman. Her story is specifically interesting to me since she lived in New York City before she moved to the Albany area. She had an incredible life in pioneering in Mathematics and in the community.
Early Life and Education
Born Edith Hirsch in Brzeziny, Poland in 1921, she and her [...]

This world we live in has become so money hungry. Granted, money is needed to pay the bills and buy food and essentials. You need money to provide you with the comforts of life. But you need to realize that once that money is spent, it it gone and you have to make more. So [...]

I have been trying to reform my work habits to have more value in the quality of my work and free up some time for more pleasurable things. Changing habits isn’t always easy. It is a constant battle to break the routine you have become used to over a period of time. I wrote about [...]

This is part two of my women in the mathematical field series. In the first article, I wrote about Sophie German and Mileva Maric Einstein. Two great women whom I admire, and whose stories I wanted to share with you.
By the way: did you know that Albert Einstein (What Does It Take To Be An Entrepreneur), Mileva [...]

Recently I came up with an add-on to a venture Thumper and I have in the works. As we combined our thoughts, he took out his cell and we recorded them on the memo recorder. Oh those little tech gadgets we rely on and use daily.
I find it funny that he and I can manage [...]

Often as women we have been overlooked and discouraged in our fields of interest. Well this is a new day and age – we no longer have limitations on the direction we choose! Or so we like to think.
When you find yourself fascinated by a specific subject, you have a natural desire and talent for [...]

I think because Thumper has a role the advertising business, he has stimulated a curiosity about the tricks of the advertising game for me. I pay more attention to labels and packaging than I did before.
And I have to say, I really get annoyed at some of the marketers today and their focus. Of course, we [...]

While researching Joseph Pulitzer, it was obvious that Nellie Bly had to be added to the list. Nellie was one of America’s first investigative reporters, an activist for women’s rights, and focused on making better conditions in the work place. She even interviewed women about marriage, using this information to argue for better marriage and [...]