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.)
Happy Birthday, Mom.
It's not my mother's birthday, but I just opened this present: a birthday poem from my father to my mother, recently discovered in his papers.(This was written before my third sister and I were born.)"To Jackie"July 6, 1954She walks in beauty through...
Three Quick Lessons
A bright, ambitious, energetic, charming entrepreneur, Pawan Murthy invited me to speak to his first installment of The PEP Talks. Pawan (pronounced "PUH-ven", like "oven") has designed The PEP Talks as a series of speaking showcases with local professionals who are...
Broomstick Marketing
I've always admired Tom Lynch. His — and his son's — Woodhouse-Lynch Clothiers carried the very finest menswear that Columbus ever deserved.By that, I mean, it was the top rack in any serious businessman's closet. Not the goofy runway fashions, no sir....
UPDATE: The Kiva/Net Cotton Content Portfolio
Welcome to the First Quarterly Meeting of the Kiva/Net Cotton Content Portfolio Shareholders.On November 24th, we began operations by announcing our three first $50 investments in micro-lending on Kiva.com, with $150 donated by loyal and generous readers John, Rachel,...
Announcing Net Cotton Content‘s
First Rabbit Contest
Have you met my wife?No? Yes?Sometimes I think I have not yet met my wife.Scientists say that every cell in the human body regenerates every seven years. (This is a fact that I am making up, or think I heard once. It might have been on Star Trek. Just stay with me,...
Etiquette, Part 1
I always wait to make sure she gets inside. When I drop off a friend (woman, man or child), I don't just drive away. I wait until I can see that she really does have her key, and really does get inside with the lights on. I just want to know that she's OK. And...
It’s Not What You Think (My Alibi)
Someday, I will die. And, you will find, I was just about as ready as anyone. Not emotionally. No. I'm not emotionally ready to greet the Reaper. "I have miles to go before I sleep," as Frost wrote. "And miles to go before I sleep." But I'm...
Quality Control
So a really, really, really good friend of mine (really good) has authorized my telling this story, but won't let me put her name on it, because she says I tell it wrong.Still, it's a great story."You never let the facts get in the way of a good...
Who’s Nuts Now?
I'm no apologist for poisonous peanuts.No, sir. The editorial board of Net Cotton Content is strictly against deadly nuts in any form.The loss of life from the recent cases of salmonella is horrible. My heart goes out to the surviving families — and to the hundreds...
Happy Birthday, Mac.
A newly minted college graduate, I walked into the work world in June 1982.I remember someone mentioning that the company's first photocopier had been rolled in just before me."Ever seen these?" asked Sheree Reinbach, the chief administrator, showing me...
