Penelope Trunk

APRIL 15, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog 6 Tips for better conflict resolution Posted to: Negotiating April 15th, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook Coats are very important on the farm. So when I’m on the farm I just wear one of the farmer’s coats. I think this is true.

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Penelope Trunk

APRIL 14, 2010

These are the last pair of boots I bought when I lived in New York City. People really underestimate how much cheaper it is to live in the boondocks than in a major city. So I buy a lot less of everything, and I buy much cheaper versions of a lot of things than I would ever dream of buying if I lived in a larger city.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 28, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Being an expert takes time, not talent Posted to: Fulfillment | Goal setting | How to blog January 28th, 2010 Del.icio.us Sometimes, if I’m getting on a plane, I’ll put it with the other heavy stuff into my luggage, and then get it out later.

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Penelope Trunk

MARCH 24, 2010

I'm getting married to the farmer. Well, not really. I mean, I can't totally get married because at the beginning of Brazen Careerist , I funded the company by not paying my taxes, so I owe a ton of taxes, and if the farmer and I got married, the IRS would put a lien on his farm. So we are having an unofficial wedding. Very small.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

If hospitals in NYC did this, there would be a run on grilled cheese ingredients all over the city. I had already written two full novels, so I turned in a little bit of them each week. And I had to take literature courses, which I passed by reading New York Times book reviews (you’d be surprised how far back those go.) They gave me 20.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 8, 2010

Or for people who think their kids will grow up and hate them for being emotionally unpredictable. I am both those people. Focus on your trigger points. The time I most consistently lose my temper is trying to get the kids out of the house in the morning. So I told myself to not lose my temper. That didn’t work. This is sometimes true.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 14, 2010

I think I am thinking that the pursuit of happiness is, well, vacuous. I don’t think people are happy or unhappy. Because I think knowing if we are happy would require knowing the meaning of life, or the ultimate goal, or the key to the world, or something that, which really, we are not going to find outside of blind religious fanaticism.

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Penelope Trunk

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog Check-up for self-delusion Posted to: Diversity | Self-management | Women February 7th, 2010 Del.icio.us The game is tantamount to cockfighting, only with people instead of animals. But still, the game encourages brain trauma. They cultivate delusion.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 13, 2010

The book features the baby boomer generation of women leaders. About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog You should lead from the middle Posted to: Leadership January 13th, 2010 Del.icio.us But what we have is actually a semantic problem rather than a leadership problem.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 17, 2010

He said, “City people probably think so. I have heard the doctor/gun owner argument before, but not in a stadium, in Madison, WI, which is one of the most left-leaning cities in the country. I felt lonely that I live in a city where this could happen. I asked the farmer if rodeos are bad for the animals. We watched the rodeo.

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