Mary Lowengard

lnkd.in/egyXacAW I am celebrating my first month as a genuine (self-)published book author, which has proven to be as much of an adventure as facing down the cleanout of 64 years of compacted fireplace ash, figuring out the workings of a Suncast c…lnkd.in/epXj_2_2

In the summer of 2013, I had a hankering to buy a country house. Ten years later, I had a hankering to publish a book about my hankering to buy a country house documenting the happy, funny, sometimes wild ride of ownership in a c…lnkd.in/ekmjftSu lnkd.in/egyXacAW

Former attorney-slash-Goldman Sachs banker-now-finance-writer Matt Levine recently opined in an interview on the “brain drain” of sharp, ambitious, well-educated college graduates who are willing to work hard but not really sure wh…lnkd.in/g96WGHcH lnkd.in/g5SJAVx5

At some point after I completed my MBA, business school travel became a Big Thing, supporting a healthy cottage industry of travel agencies that organize huge groups heading to exotic locales not only before students start (i.e., o…lnkd.in/gqcdpmtf lnkd.in/gXtme64a

Ah, the death of the sell side. It’s a head-turning headline that perennially pops up in one form or another in the world of financial journalism. Indeed, my very first article for Institutional Investor, published in November 19…lnkd.in/g6YsF6VN lnkd.in/gmDWqkmf

My side gig of writing obituaries was tested to the limit this week as I worked to create an elegy worthy of my neighbor, Bode Osunsanmi, MBA, NYC Marathoner, who passed away on August 23. I didn't have a clue that he had died un…lnkd.in/gFcAw4hu lnkd.in/gaMZjAUD

Here's a follow up to an earlier article I wrote where I asked a bunch of MBAs if they thought the experience was worth it, enough so to do it all over again. The cohort of night-school warriors -- EMBAs -- were somewhat less sang…lnkd.in/gBc3pAYa lnkd.in/gvh5JxhX

Dr. Choudaha was a great interview and very helpful with this article -- and even beat me to the punch posting it. My suspicion is that the companies have pulled back on offering lots of perks attached to offers because they have been focused in recent ye…lnkd.in/gUkaxfFh

One more for the road, dear readers. Cottage Chronicle, that is. While technically speaking, the Chronicles concluded with sale of my Bucknoll abode as described in last week’s column, I was contracted to write 20 articles and a…lnkd.in/grFPsYty lnkd.in/gkmuUDgY

OK, this is it! The final chapter of my Bucknoll saga. More accurately, the penultimate piece in my 20-week Cottage Chronicles. Next week I will offer a coda to the series. I can’t think of anything that I’ve ever done over 20 we…lnkd.in/gT8iHRz lnkd.in/gzDnJ46

Here's Cottage Chronicle #18 for your Friday reading pleasure. In it, I ruminate on all the things I wanted to do but didn't in terms of fixing up my Bucknoll home. With thanks to my fearless and peerless editors, Nancy McKeon an…lnkd.in/guN9qAu lnkd.in/g8ipsfK

Here's my latest piece for #fortunemagazine . I polled a cohort of business school graduates who attended business school in the 1980s about whether they felt their MBA was worth it and would they do it all over again at today’s st…lnkd.in/gXyNDn5 lnkd.in/gw-sqC2

Have you ever wondered why people take vacations from their vacation homes? I did. Not sure I got any closer to the truth in looking into this phenomenon in Bucknoll, but I gave it a try. Lazy me, I am just now posting this weeken…lnkd.in/e_MApd7 lnkd.in/eTe9iVp

Listen up! Literally! It's my very first ever podcast, all about what a cheapskate I am when it comes to travelling. Actually, this is really about the joys of swapping my apartment for amazing places around the world. Take a lis…lnkd.in/gQ3B6iD lnkd.in/gy2YDK9

Today, we consider a few of the many rules that govern civil society in Bucknoll that have been promulgated to keep Bucknoll society civil.   Cottage Chronicles has approached this topic previously. It’s a rule that one must have…lnkd.in/gxUnBBZ lnkd.in/gdyb4GA

Yes, I anticipate howls of protest from readers of Cottage Chronicle #15. If you are observant, you will instantly notice it doubles as a pedantic sort of word search. Apologies to those who are reluctant to play along; I can guara…lnkd.in/gRRRZnt lnkd.in/gk7wTWT

My thoughts for Friday morning: Good editing is a gift. GREAT editing is so rare it falls into the realm of miraculous. This morning, at 3:26 AM I received a text from my editor Nancy McKeon wondering if a reference to DE in the…lnkd.in/gkegVDR lnkd.in/gxzNV2J

Quite uncharacteristically, I actually did some reporting before embarking on writing this week's Cottage Chronicle, my lucky thirteenth in the series. I called my friend Buzz, asking him how he feels about winter in summer, and…lnkd.in/gKyGHRR lnkd.in/ggfqYQX

You may not be a paper-hoarding writer from back in the day like I am, when we were instructed by our employers to “keep it all” because a lawsuit might arise from a column on Best Annual Reports of 1991, but I’m sure that many can…lnkd.in/gnRSvSF lnkd.in/gcJaACd

Apologies for the late Friday posting. The story was up but I was not! Here is Cottage Chronicle #11, all about the games people play (yes, complete with a link to the Alan Parson Project’s symphonic take on the topic) when it’s to…lnkd.in/gHZn6ZZ lnkd.in/gWV_bWf