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The Most Romantic Movie You Never Heard of

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Blog by  Tracey E. Bennett, Queen of Conversation

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Remember Ravel’s Bolero from the movie "10"? This video is its visual equivalent. It’ll make you want to grab your honey and KISS! Or dance, maybe in the sheets. The music’s great, too.

OK, turn down the lights, turn up the volume, and bring on the most romantic movie you never heard of.

What are your favorite romantic movies? My top one is American President. Remember when Annette Benning came out of Michael Douglas’s bathroom wearing only his white shirt? Hot! Hot! HOT! Santa brought me a shirt just like it (warm, warm, warm!)

Today’s paper nominates these must-see romantic movies: 

  1. Shakespeare in Love (more…)

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Calling Customer Service: How to Get a Person on the Phone

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

 

blog by Tracey E. Bennett

You’re calling customer service. But you land in a maze — or daze. How do you get a person on the phone? You could get your problem handled in a jiffy if only someone would talk to you.

Here are 8 tips adapted from Reader’s Digest:

1. Don’t push any buttons. The computer will assume that you have a rotary phone and send you to a real person.

2. Push zero. Sometimes that sends you to a helpful soul.

3. Press a mess of buttons.

4. Mumble. It confuses the system and (more…)

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Good Valentine’s Day Books and Relationship Books

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

by Tracey E. Bennett

Here’s a list of good Valentine’s Day and relationship books. Two of my very favorite relationship books are:

The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate – by Gary Chapman. You you only buy one relationship book ever, this is the one to get. It changed (more…)

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How to Split the Check Without Looking Cheap

Monday, January 18th, 2010

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Have you ever gone to dinner with friends and ordered only a drink or appetizer? But when the bill came around, you got stuck with a chunk of it? How do you pay your fair share — that is, for your smaller portion — without looking or feeling cheap?

Here’s a tip from Ramit from Scrooge Strategy. He’s all about saving money, and he’s got a good tip about saving face, too. (more…)

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Get Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, “What the Dog Saw,” at a terrific price.

Monday, October 12th, 2009

 

What the Dog Saw If you loved The Tipping Point, Blink, and Outliers, you’ll like Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, What the Dog Saw. It’s a collection of his New Yorker essays. You can buy it as usual. Or you can read all the articles online for f-r-e-e-e-e. You can’t beat the price.

 Click here to read Gladwell’s essays online.

 

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A Great Source of Conversation Topics

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
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Do you love to learn? At home? At your own pace? Do you love to talk about what you learn? 
 
Then scoot on over to (more…)

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3 Kinds of Conversations: How to Ask for Help

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

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There are three kinds of conversations:

  1. with yourself
  2. with others
  3. with God/the universe/Higher Ups

This is a true story about a close encounter of the third kind. It’s one thing to talk to the universe, and another to get a reply.

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Hello! This Is Your Back-Up-Your-Computer Wake-Up Call

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Imagine for a moment that your computer got stolen or crashed. Imagine that you threw out important files and didn’t know it. How miserable would you be?

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It’s Not a Matter of IF Your Computer Crashes, But WHEN.
 
Everybody’s computer crashes eventually. Mine crashed 9 years ago, and I haven’t balanced my checkbook since. (But that’s another subject….)
 
BTW, this is not an advertisement, just a helpful poke in the ribs. I don’t make a nickel, but I hope to earn your everlasting (more…)

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