Last week I attended Intelligence Squared from NPR – and the motion was “Blame Washington more than Wall Street for the current financial crisis.”  Excerpts are in this week’s Newsweek and no wonder….the panel was extraordinary and the audience fully engaged.  Both sides agreed that there is plenty of blame for everyone and what we’re really debating is incompetence versus malfeasance (I’ll let you decide which party received which label).

Recently I was introduced to Twitter and quickly became smitten with the notion of hyper-relevancy and hyper affinity.  Take the “sound byte” and put it to good use – ie, collaboration.  As a newbie to social media, I have been fascinated by the direct correlation of success to openness.

I met my husband at work – from our earliest moments together we spent no less than 18 hours a day together.  In fact, when I decided to leave where we worked, he actually thought we might run out of things to say to one another.  We just did so well – working side by side – but those times were over and we adjusted to a married life with children and two very different work patterns until a few months ago.

My husband’s company AXA-Equitable relocated him to New Jersey which increased his commute to nearly two hours each way.  Fortunately, AXA has flexible work arrangements and supported him to arrange multiple locations including one day a week at home.