‘Sesame Street’ is awesome – not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad. – Rachel Sklar
I find the term ‘workaholic’ to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago. – Rachel Sklar
Groupon, as you probably are by now aware, is exactly what it sounds like: a daily-deal site offering group discounts. Maybe you’ve seen that done before, but certainly not like Groupon, which has executed with an energetic sales force and engaging copywriters, many culled from the Chicago comedy scene. – Rachel Sklar
Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life. – Rachel Sklar
If there’s one thing that 2009 showed us, it’s that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea. – Rachel Sklar
What I do want is to be transparent about where I am and how I got here. I don’t like the cone of silence – it didn’t do me any favors in my 20s or 30s, and I don’t see it doing much for other women, either. – Rachel Sklar
Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news – and their network chat-show brethren – is very, very white. – Rachel Sklar
Twitter is all about user experience – the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons. – Rachel Sklar
As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, ‘Why not?’ far more often than either ‘Why?’ or ‘Not.’ – Rachel Sklar
In university, in a vain attempt to stave off the frosh fifteen, I used to melt fat-free cheese over broccoli, onions and cauliflower in the cafeteria microwave. That earned me few friends. – Rachel Sklar
Not only do I not drive, I don’t have my driver’s license; there’s a story there, but the upshot is that I spent my high school years an ardent environmentalist and workout junkie who wanted to save the environment, burn calories, and have my boyfriends drive me around. – Rachel Sklar
‘The Crumbling of America’ should be required viewing for local and national government, not to mention the local and national media who should be keeping their feet to the fire on guarding against disaster. – Rachel Sklar
Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won’t lead to the dumbification of America. – Rachel Sklar
New York apartments are notoriously small, and my cute little studio is no exception – space is at a premium, which is one of the reasons that I only have a mini-fridge. Great for leftovers, cheese, and chilling Diet Coke. – Rachel Sklar
I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I’m online, I’m surfing, which means I’m distracted from the podcast. So it’s a form that doesn’t really work for me. – Rachel Sklar