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.)
Five Years
It's been five years since I sold my business and retreated to the home office. Nearly six. Five years is a long time. After a child is born -- even after, say, just a few weeks -- you can hardly remember life before the child. The kid-free life seems so...
Body of Work
A few days ago, Mark Wallinger praised what he called my "body of work." Mark has a way with words. Sparse. Inspires pause. His "body of work" praised and aged me. He thinks I'm old enough to have a body of work. (I could argue. I think...
Good Dog
This year, we lost my beloved mother, Jackie Isaac. We eulogized her and miss her. For her... This is about Beauregard.Ever underfoot, Beau mainly lived in our hearts. When we inherited him from Jackie in March, he had outlived three masters. And then, suddenly,...
New Competence: Precision
For New Competence, a book-in-development, I am describing how formerly functional competencies have been replaced by new competencies. If you have any feedback and are willing to allow me to include your response in the book (with attribution), please leave a comment...
Words Have Meaning
This should come as no surprise: words have meaning. But we speak so casually that words seem cheap. They aren't. Here are three examples. They are three of many that I hear and wonder, "Does the speaker know what he or she is saying?" "Drinking the...
New Competence: Liking Clients
For New Competence, a book-in-development, I am describing how formerly functional competencies have been replaced by new competencies. If you have any feedback and are willing to allow me to include your response in the book (with attribution), please leave a comment...
Leftover Opium
You ever have this problem? What to do with too much leftover opium? That was the problem reported to me by a Local Housewife. Here's what happened. Where It Came FromThe Local Housewife's two kids had their wisdom teeth extracted. One received 20 Percocets....
What To Do About Washington, Part 2
From time to time, I've written about the importance of voting. (It's easy to search for these posts.) Readers of Net Cotton Content are exhorted to vote. After all, voting is a more valuable way to spend time than reading Net Cotton Content. ...
What To Do About Washington, Part 1
Everyone has a response: Call your legislator. Grumble to your neighbor. Curse the media. (Or turn it off?) Even no response is a response. But everyone is wondering, "This world is troubled. What can I do about it?" Here's what I did about...
Fit (Or Else)
A couple weeks ago, a roomful of my training peers met in Atlanta. These were the folks that entered Vistage Chair training with me in July 2011. Our training class quickly formed into a peer group and proved the Vistage theory -- like thousands of other peer...
