The sanguine mood is characterized by “an outbreak of niceness across the cultural landscape — an attitude bubbling up in Read more ...]]> http://kontrary.com/2009/06/02/the-new-trend-is-happiness/feed/ 34 http://kontrary.com/2009/04/15/will-gen-y-will-ruin-local-community/ http://kontrary.com/2009/04/15/will-gen-y-will-ruin-local-community/#comments Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:52:14 +0000 Rebecca Thorman http://kontrary.com/2009/04/15/will-gen-y-will-ruin-local-community/ The recession has changed everything for Gen Y. While we continue to embrace idealism, meaningful change is much harder.

And while young people have the best intentions to be part of the communities we live in, we’re being challenged by a number Read more ...]]> http://kontrary.com/2009/04/15/will-gen-y-will-ruin-local-community/feed/ 45 http://kontrary.com/2008/09/18/social-media-is-difficult-like-intimacy/ http://kontrary.com/2008/09/18/social-media-is-difficult-like-intimacy/#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 08:42:30 +0000 Rebecca Thorman http://kontrary.com/2008/09/18/social-media-is-difficult-like-intimacy/ “Yeah, but it’s just a blog,” someone said. About this blog. My blog. We were talking about social media.

I didn’t have a response at the time. I was like George in that Seinfeld episode (he goes to great lengths to deliver a retort to a coworker), flounder Read more ...]]> http://kontrary.com/2008/09/18/social-media-is-difficult-like-intimacy/feed/ 54 http://kontrary.com/2007/10/15/the-top-3-things-you-can-do-to-save-the-world-literally/ http://kontrary.com/2007/10/15/the-top-3-things-you-can-do-to-save-the-world-literally/#comments Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:30:56 +0000 Rebecca Thorman http://kontrary.com/2007/10/15/the-top-3-things-you-can-do-to-save-the-world-literally/ This post is part of Blog Action Day. I do not have any advertising on this site, so I cannot donate the revenue. Instead, I am donating .25 for every subscriber I have today and splitting the donation between my favorite Read more ...]]> http://kontrary.com/2007/10/15/the-top-3-things-you-can-do-to-save-the-world-literally/feed/ 27 http://kontrary.com/2007/08/01/the-power-of-place-%e2%80%93-what-do-you-think/ http://kontrary.com/2007/08/01/the-power-of-place-%e2%80%93-what-do-you-think/#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:05:21 +0000 Rebecca Thorman http://kontrary.com/2007/08/01/the-power-of-place-%e2%80%93-what-do-you-think/ It was a few months ago when I thought I might leave Madison, WI to move to Chicago where my boyfriend lived. Long story short, I went to visit him, we broke up, and I rode home on the bus, trying to decipher all that had happened in such a short weekend.