Charity events bring out the best in people -- at least they should. Yet, I'm not exactly basking in the glow of hyper-philanthropical glee following Friday's Social Media For Social Change event at the Roget Smith Hotel -- which is not the fault of the organizers, sponsors, or anyone else there who likes the person they see in the mirror. This clump of pureed hair on my brain has everything to do with rotten apples. And granny always says "it takes one rotten apple to ruin a record breaking keg-stand." I guess there's still that naïve, seeing-good-in-most-people side of me …

Let's discuss the weather for just one second before I divulge the deep secrets of Google and BMA:FWD. This entire week the weather.com forecast has been so off the money you'd think they were on the pipe. Why would I believe the 60-something degree prediction yesterday? I layered up and topped my meteorologist rebellion outfit off with puffy down and sloshed my way all over town yesterday because FOR ONCE, the weather people were right -- at least in terms of the rain. Erratic weather be damned, Google's famous cafeteria hosted BMA:FWD, the Business Marketing Association's new effort to wrangle …

The gods of good-for-the-soul things must have been listening when I blathered and moaned about my dying love affair with NYC, because into my inbox fell an invitation to the launch party for Quinn Bradlee's book, "A Different Life" and online support network FriendofQuinn.com. Bradlee is afflicted with Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome, and he formed FriendsofQuinn.com to create a support community for those with Learning Disabilities (LD), caregivers, family, and friends of people with LD. The biggest hurtles I've had to leap over are pinkeye, a tonsillectomy, my parent's divorce, NYC rental brokers (evil!), and a truly horrid self-inflicted haircut, so it's …