Month: September 2012

Since I’ve become serious about using my business Facebook page (just writing those three words makes me automatically feel like I’m a senior citizen…and then I start thinking about what a useful magazine AARP puts out… and then I get really cranky and need to go date some 25 year old boy and prove I…
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September 26, 2012 0

If you’re stuck in a dead-end job or relationship, or you hate the way your body looks, or you want to write that novel, or make the movie you’ve been brooding about for years, and  instead of doing it, you rationalize things to yourself saying, ”Well, I’m going to just waste and see what happens…” …
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September 20, 2012 0

God is a comedian playing to an audience that is afraid to laugh.-Voltaire (Let me preface this by swearing to the high heavens that I am not in a poopy mood. I am simply observing.) Remember way waaay back in that simpler time called the 1990’s, when a certain chick had that incredibly irritating song…
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September 18, 2012 0

I was out running this am, feeling a little sorry for myself–probably because I hate to run, but today I simply couldn’t make myself go to the gym, yes my life of grim suffering–and I suddenly thought that as tough, in some ways, as my life currently is…for many people, it’d be a joyous walk…
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September 17, 2012 0

FOR MON 9/17, PRE CITIFIELD

I may be a megalomanic, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have issues with public speaking. Who doesn’t? I mean, well, Hitler seemed to have the knack for it…and we all know how that ended up. But for the rest of us, here’s a couple of ideas on how to become better public speakers. This…
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September 16, 2012 0

“I always have had the illusion it was more important, or as important, to be a good man as to be a great writer. May turn out to be neither. But would like to be both.” -Ernest Hemingway I just finished Paul Hendrickson’s masterful, and sympathetic new study of Papa entitled, Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He…
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September 8, 2012 0

I spent this past weekend networking with old friends. Translation: I spent the weekend eating and drinking margaritas with friends, and in the midst of that I “casually” mentioned my business and how the services I offer might be useful to my friends, or their friends or their…etc. Of course, if the IRS asks, I…
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September 4, 2012 0