Author: Nina
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Frequent-Flier Mileage Run
Grandpa: Are we there yet? Homer: No Grandpa: Are we there yet? Homer: No Grandpa: Are we there yet? Homer: No Grandpa: … Where are we going? – From the Simpsons Ever heard of a mileage run? According to Wikipedia, “A mileage run is a paid/revenue airline trip designed solely for gaining maximum frequent flyer…
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The Cost of Finding God
“God thinks within geniuses, dreams within poets, and sleeps within the rest of us.” — Peter Antenberg Although Jeanine and I are still not pregnant, we continue to have the “how will we raise our child” conversation when it comes to religion. For the background posts, you can read In Vitro and Baby-Making Business about…
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Coffee Grounds in the Garden
“A cup of coffee – real coffee – home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java:…
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Dyking up Like.com
“Imitation is the most serious form of flattery” — Proverb I’ve found the next gig for Carson Kressley, the fashion maven on Queer Eye. Last week, Walter S. Mossberg’s column in The Wall Street Journal pointed readers to a site called Like.com. He writes, “Most shoppers would admit to, at one time or another, looking…
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Ten Money Questions for Betty Young
American Airlines was the first Fortune 100 company to build a gay and lesbian sales team focusing exclusively on the LGBT community’s travel needs. Dubbed The Rainbow TeAAm, Betty Young and George Carrancho are specialists in gay and lesbian travel and they are the face of this savvy LGBT travel portal. I asked Betty a…
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Soda Soaked Laptop
“Accidents, try to change them — it’s impossible. The accidental reveals man.” — Pablo Picasso When I interviewed Abigail Garner, the author of Families Like Mine, I asked if there was a price attached to activism? Her answer, “The bigger question is what price is attached to being a small business owner, especially in a…
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More on Microfinancing: Credit to World’s Poor
“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.” — Niccolo Machiavelli Much has been written about microfinancing since Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize this year. In the latest issue of The New Yorker, Connie Bruck takes a…
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The Price of The Good Life
“I think war is a dangerous place.” – George W. Bush Friday, on my flight home from London, I sat next to a soldier. I assumed he was a soldier until we started talking. He is a Blackwater Security consultant on “vacation” from Baghdad. It took me a minute, but I quickly remembered why I…
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Ten Money Questions for Bob Witeck & Wes Combs
Bob Witeck and Wes Combs are the authors of Business Inside Out: Capturing Millions of Brand Loyal Gay Consumers. Their DC-based firm, Witeck-Combs Communications, Inc., works with uber cool, gay-friendly clients and their names are synonymous with thought leadership on LGBT demographics and marketplace trend spotting. I asked them to respond with thoughts about the…
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The Rule of Two with Food & Money
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” — Anthelme Brillat-Savarin An appetizer, bread, a drink, and dessert… in addition to your meal, pick two of the four, but never three. So goes the advice from Brian Wansink, the author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think.…
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