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Annual Reprise — Father’s Day Thoughts: Remembering Jack Samuel Bloom
Yahrzeit Candle [When I wrote this for Father’s Day 2010, I never planned to update and then reprise this post annually. But as each Father’s Day approaches, my sense of loss increases. I so wish he...
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July 4th Thoughts — Democracy Is Messy
Independence Day I don’t remember a time when there were so many revolutions (or whatever you choose to call them) happening around the world, so many uprisings of ordinary people against the behavior,...
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Thanksgiving 2013, Marc Benioff’s 1-1-1, And Immigration Reform
Classic Windowsill Tzedakah Box It’s that time of year again when I reflect on how very fortunate I am to live in this amazing country and on what I can do to make it better. For all the problems...
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A Bloom’s Christmas: Inventory Management And Retail Retold
Bloom’s Camera Ad Circa 1950 [Disclosure: If you think you’ve read something very similar before, you’re quite right. And you may read an updated version in the future. I learned so much about...
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Annual Reprise — Father’s Day Thoughts: Remembering Jack Samuel Bloom
Yahrzeit Candle [When I wrote the original version of this post for Father’s Day 2010, I never planned to update and then reprise this post annually. But as each Father’s Day has approached, my sense...
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Reprise: Thanksgiving 2014, Marc Benioff’s 1-1-1, And Immigration Reform
Classic Windowsill Tzedakah Box Being both Jewish and American presents me with two major opportunities (so Rosh Hashanah and now Thanksgiving) each year to reflect on how very fortunate I am to live...
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A Great Miracle Happened Here! — Chanukah 2014 Wishes For HR Tech in 2015
The Elegant Dreidel I Always Wanted Take Your Chances, Win Some Gelt Have you ever played the Chanukah game of spin the dreidel? Did you know that the four letters, one on each side of the dreidel,...
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A Bloom’s Christmas: Inventory Management And Retail Retold
[Disclosure: If you think you’ve read something very similar before, you’re quite right. And you may read an updated version in the future. I learned so much about business, absorbed it through my...
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Reprise: Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, And The “Days Of Awe” — 5776
Not only does Yom Kippur begin at sundown on 9/22/2015, but my birthday follows immediately thereafter — 9/24/2015 — and it’s A BIG ONE, 70. It’s the age I always thought of as really old, but of...
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In Enterprise Software And Luxury Accommodations, Details Matter And No...
St. Mawes, the quintessential south Cornish coast village. Ron and I have been spending a lovely holiday in England, treating ourselves to very high end accommodations in London and the Cotswolds, and...
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Reprise: A Great Miracle Happened Here!
Chanukah 2015 HR Tech Wishes For 2016 Take Your Chances, Win Some Gelt Have you ever played the Chanukah game of spin the dreidel? With or without the modified rules derived from “spin the bottle?”...
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A Bloom’s Christmas: Inventory Management And Retail Retold
[I’ll get back to writing about #EnSW, especially #HRtech, right after the New Year, but my recent strolls down memory lane have been part of my celebrations and reflections on turning 70, something...
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Annual Reprise — Father’s Day Thoughts: Remembering Jack Samuel Bloom
[When I wrote the original version of this post for Father’s Day 2010, I never planned to update and then reprise this post annually. But as each Father’s Day approaches, my sense of loss increases....
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Prep Now For Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, And The “Days Of Awe” — 5777
[Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on Sunday, 10/2, and continues through sundown on Tuesday, 10/4. And thus begins the Hebrew year 5777. Yom Kippur beings at sundown on Tuesday, 10/11 and continues...
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Belated Reflections For Thanksgiving 2016
[If this post looks familiar, you’re not imagining things. I’ve done an annual Thanksgiving post for several years now because giving thanks and counting my blessings becomes more important with each...
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A Bloom’s Christmas: Inventory Management And Retail Retold
[I’ll get back to writing about my life after HR tech, about the murders I’m encountering along the way (as in murder mysteries), and about my increasingly portfolio life style, on Monday. But before...
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Reprise: A Great Miracle Happened Here!
Take Your Chances, Win Some Gelt Chanukah 2017, With My HR Tech Wishes For 2018 Have you ever played the Chanukah game of spin the dreidel? With or without the modified rules derived from “spin the...
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Naomi’s Christmas: Restorative Aloneness And A Childhood Spent In Retail
A Page From Bloom’s Camera 1950 Catalog Ron left the house this morning before dawn, headed to Redmond, OR to spend Christmas with a range of Wallaces. Time moves more slowly when I’m alone, and it’s...
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A Bloom’s Christmas: Retail Inventory Management
Blooms Camera Ad Circa 1950 There are times when I really hate being a grownup, when I’d like nothing better than to be the child I never was. When your Mom dies before your sixth birthday, you grow...
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Passover Memories: Family, Food, And Immigration Policy
Passover Seder At The Obama White House I’ve been feeling a little weepy this Passover, awash in memories of the epic Seders of my orthodox Jewish childhood. They were epic, not just in the number of...
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