The Pact

I believe that birds make pacts with our dogs when they build their nests in our yard. The dogs keep...

Yeah, That’s My Kid

My children constantly surprise me. Last month when we were visiting Walt Disney World we splurged and let them play...

weapon of choice

to what end, all this rushing around and dominating the competition? gold? this is man’s destiny? to hoard gold and...

How to Make a Great Ad

When I broke into advertising, I was all about the high concept stuff that left an impact on people. Creating...

Would You Be Upset In Belize?

Life is hard enough without having to deal with bad drivers who don’t use their turn signals. And it’s more...

The Window

The window is constantly shutting. It does not care about your five year plan. Opportunities to live appear in every...

Ants

  What if we are all really just ants? Slaves to the machine. Blinded by conformity of the way things...

Dustin Pedroia is the Reason I Love Baseball

Make no mistake, I’m no fan of the Boston Red Sox. I used to like them back in the day...

They Only Jog in Rich Neighborhoods

Angels constantly swirl around me. Some are beautiful. Some are violent. Some have bad teeth. They protect me from those...

A Letter to America

  Dear All Dogmatic American Party Liners, We Unaffiliated American voters are pissed off at what you’ve done to our...

A Little Advice

I don't like giving advice. In fact, I hate it. It's not that I don't like helping people, there are...

Finding Neverland: A Story of Belize

This year my family took its summer vacation to the Central American nation of Belize.

3 Ways to Save Humans in America

You are what you eat. It’s an idiom kids in the 70s grew up with that made us think about...

Bump

I used to know a guy named Bump. He was a metal worker in my dad’s sheet metal shop. Bump...

Dear Parents, Do Better

In 2001 I became a parent. I chose to become a parent. But like everyone else who is a parent...

  The following is the second post in a three-part series about sustainable marketing. In the first post (here), we defined sustainable marketing, took at look at a case study, and, yes, established my credibility as a qualified voice in…

The following is the first post in a three-part series on the concept of sustainable marketing. Click here for the second post in the series. Click here for the third post in the series. Since launching my company, Smash Communications, in April…

The doors in our old house are sticking. We’ve had a couple weeks of drizzly cool weather and well, that’s what happens to old houses made of wood. “How do you fix it?” my aunt asked. “You don’t. You can’t…

I do not get the attraction of a Fitbit. Maybe because I wear no jewelry. Not even a watch. Ok, I wear a wedding ring but that’s to keep women away. Anyway, the kid has one. It cost $85. She used…

She gets onto the bus and forgets about me. Immersed in a different world filled with friends, and social media, and talking about middle school things.   When she returns in the afternoon, I ask her about her day. Fine…

It was a long night banging my head onto my desk, writing. Sometime around 2:30 a.m. I decided to take a walk to let the cool night air seep in and, hopefully, clear some cobwebs. I stirred the dog awake…