Posts from ‘February, 2010’

Growing up

I took a couple of days kind of off this weekend to celebrate the end of vacation with my daughter. She had been sick with strep for most of the time and that’s a sad way to spend a school vacation.
We just spent the better part of today hanging out, playing Guess Who and watching [...]

February slump

I posted as my status on Facebook that February was the shortest month, but also the longest month.
It is so true for us here in Massachusetts, where winter sets in around November at the latest, and we see snow in October as a rule. I remember speaking with a teacher friend Beth Lewis who said [...]

Fun Stuff

It’s confirmed- I will be sitting on a real estate panel at 140 Characters Conference with my friends Maya Paveza, Eric Stegemann, and Amanda Wernick (@mayaREguru, @EricStegemann and @FunomenalRealtr, respectively, on twitter). The panel will be moderated by none other than @TopBrokerOC, Bob Watson.
I am excited- first because of the honor of being asked, but [...]

Raise-the-Bar Initiative

A while back I wrote in my other blog about a grassroots initiative that has been started to improve the real estate industry. Since then, ideas have been flying back and forth on twitter and in blogs about ways that can help the industry improve.
I am borrowing heavily in this post from my own post [...]

NAR stats

I am a numbers girl. I can’t help it- it has always been the way that things made sense. I know I have mentioned it before, but my dad was an engineer at Raytheon and I apparently inherited the mindset.
So I loved when the National Association of Realtors sent out all of its aggregated stats [...]