SAD and FOMO: Can You Relate?
BY JILL MATLOW Now that the summer is over, I have a little confession to make. Please don’t judge me. I hate summer. I know, can you believe I just admitted that so publicly? But it’s true! And what...
View ArticleThe Disease To Please
BY JILL MATLOW Contrary to what you might be thinking right now, I’m not a nurse. And yet, even without a nursing or medical degree, I’m still able to self-diagnosis with stellar results. I’ve also...
View Article“May I Help You”? The Decline of Customer Service
BY JILL MATLOW My late paternal grandfather Louis (or Poppa Louie, as he was affectionately known) owned a men’s and boys’ clothing store in a small coal-mining town in PA during the 1920s to 1950s. He...
View ArticleCan I Get You Anything? Learning to Accept and Offer Help In Times of Need
BY JILL MATLOW I was sick all the time as a child—mumps, chicken pox, asthma, allergies, sore throats—you name it, I was infected with it! My mom used to give me a bell to ring so that she could hear...
View ArticleYou’re Too Nice: Can You Ever Be?
BY JILL MATLOW “You’re too nice”. Wait, what? I remember one of the times someone said that to me when I first moved to NYC. I had held the elevator door for someone, who was literally less than a foot...
View ArticleDon’t Worry; Be Happy
BY JILL MATLOW “Here’s a little song I wrote - you might want to sing it note for note. Don’t worry, be happy. In every life we, have some trouble - when you worry you make it double. Don’t worry, be...
View ArticleHonesty: Is It Always The Best Policy?
BY JILL MATLOW Remember when you were younger and your parents always taught you to tell the truth? The adage “Honesty is the best policy” seemed to be their mantra. But as we got older, we began to...
View Article“I’m Sorry,” Are You?
BY JILL MATLOW Games people play. When I was younger, I used to love to play the game SORRY®! For those of you who aren’t familiar with the game, there are 4 different colors (red, blue, green and...
View ArticleThe Long and The Short of It: Hair Today and Gone Tomorrow
BY JILL MATLOW I was on a date recently when the guy I was out with asked me a question I’d been asked a million times before. No, he didn’t ask me what my career was, or why I was still single, or if...
View ArticlePaying It Forward: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
BY JILL MATLOW A few weeks ago, I experienced some disappointing circumstances that made me question the universe, something I rarely do. I mentioned these circumstances to a member at my yoga studio...
View ArticleDid you get my text? Where did you go?
BY JILL MATLOW As a baby boomer, I’ve witnessed how much technology and the way people communicate has evolved so much over the last few decades. Growing up in simpler times, my fellow baby boomers and...
View ArticleThe life of the party or the homebody: Which one are you?
BY JILL MATLOW Party like it’s 1999 or homeward bound? When invited to a party, are you like me, excited at the prospect of meeting new people, or more like my friend Carol, who immediately starts to...
View ArticleYou Say PotAto, I Say Potato…Do opposites really attract?
BY JILL MATLOW Running on empty. Imagine a 40-something woman running through Grand Central Station to catch a train that was departing in 2 minutes. Does that sound like a stressful scenario to you?...
View ArticleLost In Space
BY JILL MATLOW The other day I turned around and was staring into a big black hole. You probably think that metaphorically speaking I was deep in thought, ruminating about my problems and staring off...
View ArticleTMI And The Art Of Oversharing
BY JILL MATLOW In the 1970s, if someone mentioned TMI to me, I immediately thought of Three Mile Island. For those of you too young to remember, Three Mile Island was the location of the most...
View ArticleThe Brotherhood Of The Traveling Coat
BY JILL MATLOW Do you remember the movie The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants? It tells the story of a pair of jeans that fit four best friends who were all shapes and sizes and follows these...
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