And Now, a Message from My Marketing World… I’m Writing a Book!

by June 29, 2010 » Add more comments.
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I’m interrupting this personal blog to bring you a message from my business world: I’m writing a book! Planned for early December release, Content Rules is a how-to guide to creating compelling content for the Web. The talented and fun CC Chapman is co-author (David Meerman Scott is writing the Read more »

Toy Story 3: ‘Contains Mild Thematic Elements Not Appropriate for Older Viewers’

by June 27, 2010 » Add more comments.
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Dear Motion Picture Association of America: I’m freshly back from the theater after seeing Toy Story 3, which prompts me to ask: A G-rating? Seriously? I haven’t been this disturbed since the Turkish prison scenes in Midnight Express (which was rated R, by the way). The first two Toy Read more »

About A Dog

by June 20, 2010 » Add more comments.
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My little dog Abby lost her right eye yesterday. “Lost” is a funny term for it—implying that she misplaced it somewhere and can’t for the life of her remember where, like you might car keys. Maybe, in time, “lost” will be enough to define the visceral brutality of what Read more »

A (Sort of) Sentimental Post That I Tried to Make Less So

by June 8, 2010 » Add more comments.
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Yesterday I sat in the stands at my son’s graduation, smack at what would be the face-off line of the covered ice hockey rink, counting the rows of chairs on the floor below and trying to work out which mortarboard was his in a royal blue sea of 440 graduates. Read more »

Parent Bingo

by November 22, 2009 » Add more comments.

My 17-year-old will be in college next year, and right now he and I are deep in the process of applications and school visits and talks that spring up suddenly at dinner or in the car and begin with, “Maybe I should think about…?” or “Have you considered…?” It’s a Read more »

Annecdote: Tea Time

by November 15, 2009 » Add more comments.
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It’s alarming to talk with someone on the phone and realize they suspect you are a liar. This past week I received, via FTD, a belated birthday package—a gourmet basket with some of my favorite things. Like tea, biscotti, and dried apricots. There was a warm message on the card Read more »

Georgie: A Rescue Story

by November 6, 2009 » Add more comments.
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This morning I got an update on a former foster dog — a Cavalier King Charles spaniel who lived with us two years ago, from just prior to Halloween to just before Christmas. The dog had some kind of skin condition and arrived hairless, itchy, raw, reddened and miserable. He Read more »