My Substack

Sandwiched right between I hate long lines and I like pretty dresses too much, there it is: I’m constantly driven to say “yes”‚Äì in large part because of money. My conservative friends may tease me and name call in fun (well, mostly in fun…

July 3rd is my brother Paul’s birthday. He died five years ago, but he would have been 54 on Thursday. I think it’s obvious why I’m thinking of him this week. But then there is the show Orange is the New Black, which I also can’t stop thinking…

I do a thing with ideas that will probably sound really weird. I did it while writing this. Here’s how it goes: I open a blank document for whatever it is I’m working on, like this newsletter, or an article, speech, web site or other marketing…

This is not a typical blog post (although please don’t ask me to describe what is a typical blog post is). Instead, below you'll find an essay, entitled "Out of Order." I started it about three years ago, and finished it in January of 2013, eight…

In the middle of a meeting last week with a client, their curtains fell down. The panels were attached with Velcro, and they unattached themselves loudly, peeling away from one end of the floor-to-ceiling window to the other. “That happens,” my…