Category: Blog
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I learned a hard lesson
When I was eight or nine years old, I learned a lesson. It came via ballet class, like so many of my early life lessons. On my way to stardom – obviously I started taking ballet when I was four, added jazz at five and tap at six. From the start, there were milestones we…
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Dear Dad
Dear Dad, This will be my first birthday without you. You always sent me a sweet card in the mail and called to sing me the birthday song first thing in the morning. How I will miss that. When I think about you that way, my heart aches. It’s better if I try to think…
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Into the woods
It’s really hard to hate a tree. I thought I would hate this tree I know because I tried. But as I stood in front of the beautiful cherry tree my father used to climb to hunt deer and otherwise be among nature, I couldn’t find it in my heart to hold a grudge.…
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Learning through grief
Tomorrow will mark one month since my dear, sweet, wonderful Dad died. I’m doing OK, but it still sucks. I still cry. I still feel sad and awful and shocked that the world keeps turning without Dad present. But I am also starting to manage to not cry every time I see a pic of Dad…
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My first post about Life After Dad
My worst fears came true: my sweet, kind gentleman of a Dad died on Friday, July 17. I have so many thoughts and feelings on this sad time, but need a little time to pull myself together and get my life back in order. Dad spent most of the last five weeks of his life in a Philadelphia…
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26 Hugs
I smiled as I read the note from Mom that arrived in the mail along with a newspaper clipping about “the importance of affectionate touching.” She remembered. I certainly did too. I was a strange little kid sometimes. My parents tolerated it all. Embraced it really. From the one-woman girl baton-twirling, roller-skating-on-the-living-room-carpet shows I would…
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“Her suicide was one day in a life.”
I recently had the opportunity to speak on a panel organized by Interpublic Group, which owns the company where I work, in honor of National Mentoring Month. I arrived assuming I would network a bit, do the panel and then head home. Ho-hum, right? Silly me. Sure, I was able to meet executives from the…
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The dog model
I’m pretty sure this Great Dane Everybody loves the neighborhood Great Dane See this Instagram video by @jenniferlkeene * 65 likes …is the same dog featured in this [incredibly gorgeous] Kehinde Wiley photo series. Photo by Kehinde Wiley and New York Magazine More about Kehinde Wiley here.
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Hipster business name generator
When I first saw the web site that generates so-called hipster business names in November, I laughed. The twee results – two seemingly unrelated nouns linked with an ampersand – were both funny and familiar. Similar businesses exist all over NYC with a heavy concentration in Williamsburg. The site is the brainchild not of a…
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I’m going back to school
It’s true: I’m going back to school, but this time in a teaching capacity. This fall, I have the privilege of joining New York University’s adjunct faculty, teaching an undergraduate business course. Lucky to live here jenniferlkeene’s photo on Instagram Specifically I am part of the NYU School of Professional Studies Preston Robert Tisch Center…
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