http://www.globemotorsports.com/ In a city like Los Angeles, where we rely on our cars — a red warning signal is never something we want to see. When my “low tires” flashed on, and I’d already checked them once at the fancy Beverly Hills gas station a few weeks ago — I decided to go to Globe…
I went to the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce’s event today. It was “The Third State of the Entertainment Industry Conference”, and about 500 dignitaries and heavyweights were in the room. Vin got an award –for his “Commitment to California”. And I got to meet some interesting women, among them the publisher of VARIETY. Michelle Sobrino-Stearns…
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I flew to Michigan this last weekend and was knocked out by how many counselors there are now doing the mission of Camp Kesem. It’s a place my late sister Kitty helped at the beginning, and it’s grown from being on one campus — Stanford University — to being at 62 college campuses across the…
I’ve run a convention before and it’s not easy. Ours was for 250 people plus their cars. This was for 400+ college age counselors, minus their cars. Nonetheless, it was a lot of logistics. Kids came in from all over the country to a campsite in Michigan. Nobody got lost — forever. Nobody lost their…
After I spoke to a “Women in Film” group — several of the professionals wrote me personal letters. I had promised in class that if anybody wrote me, I would of course write back. As it turned out, I didn’t need to do a ‘tit for tat’ — because I was so moved by each…
Kelly Jo is a documentarian — who was in the “Women in Film” mentorship group that I lectured to a few weeks ago about ‘The Art of Thank You’. I said it’s fun to have stationery that shows your brand… and in her case, she loves the trombone. My friend Jennifer Hronek is a stationery…
I didn’t know Mark Olson until the Camp Kesem Leadership Summit, but he introduced himself warmly and we quickly established that I’m from Palo Alto and he’s from Foster City — a few miles away from where I grew up … and their team used to kick our football team’s behind on a regular basis….
I gave a seminar on “Donor Relations and the Art of Thank You” for 80 college counselors at a Camp Kesem Summit this weekend in Michigan. One of the things I said was to write something flattering or positive about the donor in the 2nd paragraph. I told a story about how when I was…
