Celebrating Summer with Harmless Harvest
Harmless Harvest spread their nutritious and delicious coconut water through Hollywood (and the Hamptons) this summer. Celebrities were surprised with doorstep deliveries around LA… …And the naturally electrolyte-packed and subsequently super hydrating 8oz bottles were [...]
Together We Rise
My friend Melanie Bromley and I have been intrigued by the RiSe Festival since we first heard about it a few years ago. Every year we make tentative plans to go - and then life [...]
Getting in Deep with Adrian Grenier
I met Adrian Grenier about a dozen years ago at the Sundance Film Festival. A few years later I saw his documentary “Teenage Paparazzo” premiere at Sundance - featuring some funny faces from yours truly [...]
Musing about Burning Man for The Voluntourist
My friend Heather Newgen started a great website called The Voluntourist, focused on travel, philanthropy, doing philanthropic things while traveling, social good and all the good things. When she asked me if I'd write a [...]
For the Love of Magazines
Every time another magazine folds (Self, Interview, Teen Vogue...) or a veteran editor relinquishes their perch (looking at you Graydon Carter, Cindi Leive, Joanna Coles...) a little piece of my magazine-loving heart dies. My love [...]
Q&A with JetSuite & JetSuiteX’s Alex Wilcox: The CEO Making the Skies Friendly Again
If you've been following me for any length of time, you know that I'm a big admirer of Richard Branson, and credit the serendipitous meeting and conversation with him on Virgin America's first flight NYC-LA [...]
Vulnerability
Vulnerable: [vuhl-ner-uh-buh l] adj: capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt. I’ve always prided myself on being resilient, reasonably level-headed and open to exploring all (or most of) what life has to offer. [...]
The Best Gift – For Yourself or Someone Else
Subscription Boxes are a thing. A really big thing. Like the new Wine of the Month or Cheese of the Month Club – but one you have to feel less guilty about buying for yourself. [...]
Keeping it Together After Baby
Nope, despite recent posts on my social media feeds with a newborn, haven’t had a baby. He belongs to my best friend – who’s been another example for me Alexander and I that [...]
Be a Poser, Win Free Flights 🙂
JetSuiteX makes flying easy (no lines or waiting at the airport), enjoyable (beautiful planes in pretty private hangars, complimentary healthy snacks, cocktails and more) and Fun (currently with in-flight yoga poses on cards in every [...]
Postmates Delivering (Free) Halloween Costumes!
With Halloween falling on a Tuesday this year, the parties are starting earlier than ever! If you're like me and think you can only justify one new costume/season - until you're faced with four Halloween [...]
Meet the Ladies of Dagne Dover
Would love to take credit for securing this piece on the amazing ladies of Dagne Dover in Fast Company. Alas, I can not. But, has been a privilege working with them through several seasons and [...]
Once a Journalist…
Seven years after organically starting a marketing/PR company I’ve come to accept that I’m now more publicist than journalist. I was so passionate about journalism for the dozen or so years I had the privilege [...]
The Purpose Awards
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ― Ralph [...]
JetSuiteX Makes Traveling Between LA & San Jose take less time than…
the time it took you to schedule the reason why you're there. less time than lunch...(often) quicker than driving from West Hollywood to Venice during rush hour - and that's only about 8 miles! Today’s [...]
May I Have Your Lunch Money? Please.
Feeling helpless in a world where hate's come to the streets where we live? It's going to take more than a day to eradicate the virus of violence we've seen recently spread into our once [...]
Plum Organics Red Carpet Premiere
Plum Organics made its red carpet debut at the True and the Rainbow Kingdom premiere at The Grove in LA – hosted by Pharrell Wiliams. Plum’s logo decorated the wall underneath the rainbow on the [...]
Do You Think Your Brand ‘Needs’ PR?
I've said this many times. I even got a client when I challenged him to give me the budget he spent on one ad page to let me show him I could parlay it into [...]
Notes from Fly Fishing
Last weekend I went up Summit Series at Powder Mountain. “Summit creates unique gatherings designed to catalyze entrepreneurship, creative achievement, and global change to create a more joyful world.” You can read that on their [...]
Gawd is (a long time) Coming…
And he's in the form of Tommy Chong. As in Chong from Cheech & Chong. If you were wondering. A few years ago my supremely talented friend Jerry Brunskill let me read a script he [...]
In the News: Plum Organics
As a publicist, I could tell you a lot of great things about working with Plum Organics. I could tell you how much I admire the corporate culture they work to maintain, how it trickles [...]
Ethos of Simplyjen: Part 1
I'm not a big believer in imposing a lot of stringent 'rules' on ourselves. This pertains to how I run my company as well, but there are a few. One being... I have to love [...]
Voila
After a blogging, journaling, journalism-ing, writing hiatus - here we go again. Seven years ago next month I quit my job at OK! Magazine, where I was a founding editor, and (after initial hesitation and [...]