Poetry for Dogs
My book, Throw Me A Bone: Poetry For Dogs, includes 31 poems written purportedly for a canine audience.
It’s available on Amazon — http://poetryfordogs.com — and priced to generate funds for three humane societies. (Writing poetry is not my get-rich-quick scheme, not a pyramid of dogs with you at the bottom. No.)
Summer School 2014
I like to keep a List Of What I Don't Know. I learned this from Rob Emrich. The good news: the list never goes away. No sooner do I learn something -- and scratch it off the list -- then up rises one or two new questions. And there they go, onto the list....
“Marriage Is Easy.”
An unmarried 24-year-old said this to me today: "Marriage is easy." That has me thinking. Marriage is easy.Marriage is easy. Fidelity is not. There are temptations. There are opportunities. My mantra: "Do I really want to hurt my beloved? Is that the...
Creeper
I can't believe I've never told you this story. Perhaps I've told it to you in person. But I don't see it here on Net Cotton Content. So this might be news. So One Day,I was walking home from the school bus stop, a couple blocks from home. I was maybe...
Celebration
Do you celebrate? This was a question posed to an arena full of entrepreneurs by Jack Welch. The GE CEO asked two thousand young entrepreneurs: How many of you have, during the past few months, recognized a victory? Maybe you stopped on the way home to pick up...
Checking Privilege
I've been downright lucky. Born into freedom. Into health. Into a loving home. Into prosperity. Into intellectual literacy and conversation. Into an ethical tradition. Into so much. These were gifts I didn't earn. They landed at my feet. All I had...
Who I Am Becoming
Last evening at dinner, a colleague raised a question: "How can I become a better leader?" The answer, from another colleague: "Who are you? Start with knowing who you are." The table fell quiet. This quickly turned into an assignment for...
Perfecting Your Relationship
This is about how to turn a great relationship into an even better relationship. My mother, Jackie Isaac, of blessed memory, and I had a great relationship. Truly, we had a lot of laughs together. We traveled together. We drank Scotch together. We went to funerals. We...
Key To A Great Summer
Some summers are better than others. The Best Summers Linger. There is a fine, long stretch in the middle. A moment when you look at the blue sky and realize: it's been so long since the beginning that you can't remember the beginning of summer. And yet, with...
You Deserve Better From Me
A recent blog post -- "The Alternative To A Rising Career" -- received an unusually large reaction from readers of Net Cotton Content. The Reaction Split Evenly By Generation.The members of the Greatest/Silent Generation and Baby Boom questioned why I...
Speaking Next Week
Please forgive this quick plug. Feel free to ignore, of course. Sometimes, readers of Net Cotton Content ask me to tell them whenever I give a public presentation. Here's one.It's next week in Columbus. I'm getting ready by leading meetings all...
