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.)
Trusting Dad To Do Right
Staging To Kill A Mockingbird this year has been a lucky choice. The audience is motivated — and briskly buying advance tickets — by the book's well publicized fiftieth anniversary. It's just our dumb luck that the media is celebrating Harper...
Be A Board Member At Available Light
CRITERIA FOR BOARD MEMBERSHIP Subject to change, per the continuing elevation of the board toward common sense...Board members must: Support the artistic direction of Matt Slaybaugh. As a board, it is our strategic policy to help Matt realize HIS artistic vision. What...
The Meaning of Maycomb
As a budding Yankee, I once spent a summer bartending at a fancy resort outside Charleston, South Carolina. I was often stunned at the Southern customs, especially as they regarded race. I often felt like a fish — lox at that — out of water. Now I'm...
Uh, Artie?: Living in the City
A former student writes: Uh, Artie? Long time no chat. I have a quick question for you since you got your MBA at Columbia. Did you like living in NYC? My current employer might transfer me there, if some internal interviews I am going through go in my...
Personal Branding
This morning I sat on a panel at the Ohio Growth Summit. The topic for this panel was Personal Branding, effectively and imaginatively led by Nate Riggs. I learned a lot about personal branding from the other panelists. Right now, here's what I think it is....
Let It Go (To Your Head)
After a while, it can really go to your head. And I don't need anything more going to my head. It's fully inflated already. But, I do declare, as I sit in the wings and hear Miss Maudie praise Atticus Finch, it's heartwarming to take her kind words...
Amplified Introversion
An Alarmingly Beautiful Reader of Net Cotton Content said to me recently, "I think I must know everything about you." (I guess that hardly narrows it down. For you, too, are alarmingly beautiful. Unless, of course, you're a guy — and then you're just...
Us, Baby, Us
Now that we have a political action group called Raging Grannies, I think it's safe to say that I saw an old lady protesting yesterday by the neighborhood B.P. filling station. White hair in the wind, she displayed an illegible sign, but her sour face and spare...
An Autotelic Life
We've lost a master of life. Martin Gardner remains an inspiration. Even his obituary tickles the heart and rings like a wake up call Here it is, from yesterday's New York Times.May he be buried in that empty space on the diagram.
As If
I love the Live Life As If exercise. So today, when I decided to optimize my handheld email thang — but accomplished the opposite, truly messing it up — I decided: "That's just fine. I'm not going to spend any time troubleshooting and fixing it. Rather,...
