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.)
And, Now, From Helensvale
I'm mindful not to flog SpeakerSite on Net Cotton Content. (Net Cotton Content must remain pure, whatever that means.)But — if you care to read an item about SpeakerSite — this would be the Item Of The Month. The premiere edition of CL!Q eMag has just hit the web...
Mentor Up
I'm 20 years older than two key role models: Rob Emrich at SpeakerSite and Matt Slaybaugh at Available Light. Twenty years older! I could be their father (if I'd sired sooner). I'm finding role models every day who are younger and younger. Most of my...
Fat and Happy
There used to be some fat people we all knew, back when the ordinary modifiers were "fat" or maybe "chubby." Long before we spoke of "obese" or even "big boned."They were: Jackie Gleason, Ed Asner, Winston Churchill — and the...
To live, or not to live, à la carte
Let us pause to consider the recently concluded Cultural Year. (The Cultural Year runs concurrent with the School Year, both observing a generous summer vacation.) Was it a good year? How would you know? Here's how I assess the Cultural Year. I ask some hard...
A Night At Strokey’s
The SpeakerSite team met yesterday with legendary angel investor, voracious reader, powerful teacher, and loyal visitor to Net Cotton Content, John Huston.Angel Investor is a term chosen, of course, by those it describes. It's shorthand for Crazy Rich People Who...
Born To Run
My secret can now be told. I've been running. Just about every morning, Alisa and I get up earlier than our Usual Early and stretch with t'ai chi and run. We're up to about a mile. With several walking breaks.It's hard.I'm Weak.Former P.E. teachers...
Picking Up The Tab
My friend and mentor, Ken tells me that there is an old Spanish proverb (and it rhymes, so don't complain): Cuando hay barbas mayores,no pagan los menores.Roughly translated: When there are old guys, the young folks don't pay.Happily, Ken is older than I am....
In Gene We Trust
This might not be as witty as your conversation at home, but Gene liked it so much, he put it in the dialogue between the main characters of a novel that he's just finished. Pope Mary and the Church of Almighty Good Food (working title) is "a gently humorous...
On Receiving Harsh Criticism
I've heard Ph.D.s say that we should, before interpreting market research data, throw out the top and the bottom comments.Throw them out? Why simply discard data? The reason: there are some people who love everything and there are some people who hate everything....
Feedback Samples
All student comments from a 83-person class on creativity, in the random order that I received them: "Artie inspires." "Artie was a great instructor! He was so inspirational and I learned a great deal from him. He encouraged students to think for themselves...
