When I was younger, I took my dad for granted. I mean, didn’t everyone’s father do whatever it took to care for his family, take time out to spend with his kids, and give them real, practical tools they’d need to succeed in life? The short answer, of course, is no. I was unbelievably blessed [...]
Category Archives: family ties
Teaching Kids to Innovate
Recently, a magazine I write for asked me to write a back-to-school article about high school. Having no clue where to begin, I called one of my own friends from high school, who is now a high school economics teacher, and asked for help. “What on earth should I write about?” I began. Without missing [...]
A Copywriter Relearns the Rules of Grammar
“I don’t know the rules of grammar. If you’re trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language, the language the use every day, the language in which they think. We try to write in the vernacular.” – David Ogilvy I am not smarter than [...]
Joy in the Journey
I have nearly cracked several times in the past couple of weeks. Not the, “I need an hour-long massage to de-stress” kind of cracking, either. More like an, “I’m about to cuss and scream and throw some stuff around because I can’t take it anymore!” kind of cracking. The kind where your body hurts. Where [...]
"Self-employed" Means I Work for a Living
Self-employed -adjective earning one’s living directly from one’s own profession or business, as a freelance writer or artist, rather than as an employee earning salary or commission from another. – dictionary.com Every Christmas, in every household and every family across America, some well-meaning relative invariably says something to screw up an otherwise festive occasion. In [...]
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