by Pearl Klein | Aug 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
My brother and sister and I arrived in Seattle on August 14, 1976. We were joining our mother, who had driven across the country and rented a house in Wedgwood. Bus rides in Seattle cost $.20. Our bus was the #7 View Ridge/Blue Streak, not to be confused with the...
by Pearl Klein | Aug 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
You know how sometimes a familiar word starts sounding alien, and you get stuck repeating it over and over trying to taste your own alienation until it snaps back to normality? With is not one of those words. With always feels soft and familiar. With is a padded plus...
by Pearl Klein | Jul 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
My whole business model is based on two things: I write WITH, not FOR, my clients, and the reason that works is because there are so many people out there who won’t write unless someone else is watching. I always want to be that someone else. Watching other...
by Pearl Klein | Jul 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Sometimes I say some really stupid shit. In the vein of “you always hurt the one you love,” the closer the person I’m talking about or to is to me, the stupider the shit. Recently, I was reminded of a really stupid thing I’d said about my...
by Pearl Klein | Jul 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
A parlor game we play in my circle is What’s the Title of Your Autobiography? My husband: It’s a Steve Thing, You Wouldn’t Understand. My friend Jon: Can We Stop Here First? The J.D. Story. My father thought his memoir should be called The Man Who...
by Pearl Klein | Jul 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
Self-confidence battles self-loathing, self-criticism, and/or self doubt in most of the entrepreneurs I know. That takes a lot of energy, and it robs energy from these entrepreneurs doing what they do best: Their life’s work. I am speaking for those I talk to on...
