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.)
A Day of Creativity
How are you strengthening your creativity? Is it worth study, work, investment?Many of you have asked, "May I take your creativity class?"Until now, the frustrating answer has been, "No." The room is full and Ohio State doesn't allow...
I’m sorry.
The Unmistakable The dulled cracking puft-puft-puft of several rounds of gunfire, muffled by the night air. Five, six shots. A pause. Four more shots — puft-puft-puft-puft.I rise into robe and slippers and step quietly downstairs, apprehensively...
Behind You With Soup
Joe Blundo is so talented, so prolific, and such a nice guy. A mensch. We had a chat at Katzinger's Delicatessen on Friday, before my last shift at my summer job. (Actually, it was more of a summer internship, because there was a vast gulf between my scant...
Time For Some New Beliefs?
This lunchtime, I addressed a large room of leaders: the 150 or so incoming freshman at The Ohio State University who have been identified as the students most likely to build community on campus. Here's what I said. You can click here to download an audio...
Psst. Wanna hear some lectures on marketing?
Next Monday, August 30th, at 6:45 p.m., I return to CCAD for the first of a dozen weekly lectures on consumer behavior. Come. This is your invitation. There are 100 students registered for the class and it will be taught in a big, comfortable auditorium, so you can...
A Guide To High Holy Day Prayer
[Here's tonight's sermon at Temple Israel.]Shalom. By now the members of the congregation have received the listing of High Holiday services. The usuals — the big two — are there, of course. And there are the other opportunities to walk, talk and pray among...
Finding The Most Important Work Of Your Career
A few years ago, I let others plan my life (for 90 minutes). Why?There were several risks facing during my big, sudden, unplanned job transition. My friends convinced me, however, that there was a bigger risk than my never finding employment. "You will find work,...
All Mixed Up
Long from now in a place probably not that far away... "Tell us that old story again, Zayde," my grandchildren will ask. "The one about how you used to go to that place where everyone worked. You know, the Workplace! And you worked with...
Ideas Having Sex
Why do ideas get to have all the fun? It's The CreativityThis is a great video from Ted.com, wherein British author Matt Ridley describes how we are evolving ever more quickly and ever more substantially because we are cross-breeding our ideas like never...
What’s Next? (Follow-up from the session with Artie Isaac)
Thanks for your time and participation during our session for the staff appreciation breakfast. Thank you for the experience and, as I said, I am very grateful for what you have chosen to do for a life — and for our students and colleagues. During the session, I...
