elizabeth: Sometimes working at home does not have its rewards. People think “Hey, she is working from home; let’s call her to run errands for us.” Let me count the ways people get on my last nerve because my work phone number happens to be the same as my home number. You get to...
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Archive for November, 2009
Coaches on the Edge are looking for help.
Coaches on the Edge take a Magical Carpet Ride and Visit Saturn
Laurie: I won’t even tell you how I ended up there but I spent a Friday night at a Whole Energy Festival in a Manhattan hotel. Folks who had just dined on raw food, channeled the directions to the hotel, and chanted on the subway showed up in flocks. Some of the booths I encountered included...
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Coaches on the Edge are hoping that this after school activity does not become the next spectator sport.
elizabeth: If a gang was raping your mother or sister…would you want to watch? Even I know this is a most absurd and offensive question. But not everybody does. In fact some would like to pull up a chair and watch.
My sense of civility has been tested to the breaking point when CNN reported that...
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Coaches on the Edge believe that it is good for some old boyfriends to just fade away.
elizabeth: When the East Village was my home, I lived with a boyfriend who was so handsome and sultry eyed sexy. Man, I just liked looking at him. And I know he liked looking at himself also. If I was him, I would have been doing the same damn thing. We lived on St....
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Happy Thanksgiving Oprah!
Dear Oprah,
Coaches on the Edge would just like to wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving.
We hope you will enjoy the turkey, the sweet potatoes with marshmallows, the greens beans with those fried onion thingys,and the pecan pie – I like mine with whipped cream and ice cream – I know I am not...
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Coaches on the Edge to be on O’s magazine cover….
elizabeth: So we have not lost our minds (you can’t lose what you don’t have), but on Monday I saw Ellen Degeneres on Oprah and she got herself on the cover of O. And Ellen is blond, very funny and married to the very beautiful Portia De Rossi. I am blond, people say I make...
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Coaches on the Edge Bring Four Tips to Follow. Now. Right now.
elizabeth: Negativity begets thoughts of bungee jumping without a cord. Hanging out with a negative friend or family member can be difficult (especially if they become attached to your skirt hem) and is guaranteed to suck the good life out of you. So for your sake, sever the negative sappers out of your life...
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Coaches on the Edge have Attitudes of Gratitude.
With Thanksgiving upon us, elizabeth and I decided that it might be a good time to start counting our blessings. Or at least acknowledge a few things that we appreciate. So here goes.
Laurie: Full-length mirrors that make you look skinny. If you don’t have one of these, go to any lengths necessary to get one. If you...
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Coaches on the Edge are looking for Signs that are Sealed and Delivered.
elizabeth: Two weeks ago I was dreaming about overindulging in Halloween candy when the phone rang. I don’t like getting calls after 10 PM because of that old wives’ tale that bad news only comes at night. Yeah, right. A soft gentlemen’s voice on the other end informed me that he had a dream about...
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