In the late-Nineteen Eighties I was an aging kid working a colorful but caustic job on the seedy side of town. Specifically, I was a graphic artist in a busy studio that supplied signs for most of the independently owned grocery store chains in the Philadelphia region. We’d hand paint Flank Steak 99¢ / LB. … Continue reading AN ANALOG STORY
There are 54 cards in a deck when you count the jokers but that's not answer to life, the universe and everything.
Words to my daughter as she grows and goes...
When I wanted to be Tom Waits.
In the early 90s I wrote for and edited several lifestyle and business publications. I learned a lot in the busy, character-filled newsrooms of the suburban weeklies, like how to tell people what to do in prose…
The largest live crowd I ever spoke in front of was nearly 40,000, on August 16, 2011 and I had two goals: Be brief and be powerful.
Both men, looking out of their respective windows, smiling at their good fortune think to themselves simultaneously– anti-intellectualism is killing this world and their smiles fade.
On April 10, 2018 I planned a surprise party for our 25th wedding anniversary but a blizzard changed our plans and we headed south. Had it happened, I had a cake with our picture on it, a killer party band and a speech to deliver to the bride. This is that speech. . . . … Continue reading UNSPOKEN SPEECH
The path of an everyman, Everett Manning, destined to disappoint his angel in the usual ways.
I am going to invent something that requires no maintenance for the man who has everything
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