Unless you were living under a rock on Thursday, you saw this: Twitter blew up minutes later. Everyone was on Kenneth Cole. And for good reason – it was a really bad tweet. But if you listened to some of the people berating him, you’d think the Kenneth Cole empire was going to come crumbling down because of this. What? Look, I don’t buy Kenneth Cole products. I have no loyalty to him or his brand. I could care less…
January 28, 1986 I woke up with a mean hangover from a party that ended just a few hours before. In other words, it was a normal morning. I was stationed on a remote US Air Force base near the DMZ in South Korea. There were maybe 1,000 US airmen on this sprawling base filled with indigenous foreigners. I was 20. The Challenger explosion occurred in the middle of the night where I was. When I saw the news on the…
I recently did something that I can’t forgive myself for. During a moment of chaos, I barked at my oldest daughter (9) and told her it was time to grow up. I was trying to get everyone out the door on a Saturday, and there were chores to be done around the house, but she and her sister (7) were lost in play – despite my urging that they do what’s necessary for us to leave. I got down on…
What if there is no cure for cancer? What if what we are not supposed to get what we want? What if the meaning of life is to simply accept it? What if this is as good as it gets for race relations in America? What if the terrorists are right? What if one day they discover that air fresheners caused brain damage? What if life as we know it is really hell and we’re destined repeat it until we…
Welcome to Chantilly Montessori, brought to you by Ford. Why not? In Charlotte, our public school system is facing a 100 million dollar shortfall for the next school year. Just, wow. I’m not going to get into why this happened and who is to blame, that’s for the politicians. Rather, I’m going to talk about a possible solution that I do know something about – advertising. While the rest of the universe might be digging its way out of a recession…
Love has no beginning and no end. It is the pulse of life. Instinctual in nature. A constant that has existed forever and will continue to exist until the day this rock explodes. As infants, we understand this logic as truth. But then life takes hold and drives us away from our instinct and toward our desires. Yet, the more we manipulate love, based on what we want it to be, the farther we are from the truth. You might…
