Marketing Synergy

This kind of a confluence doesn't happen by accident. That's all I'm saying.

On Tests

This feels like a test...I really want to sit on that chair. Because, you know - it's a chair.

On Careers Counseling

Counseling – any kind of counseling – can be an essential lifeline for people who don’t know which way to go, or if they have questions and don’t know where to go for answers. I feel strongly about this as I’ve done personality tests online and they all say I should be a counselor. So, …

Read

You never know where a reluctant reader might look for inspiration. Sterling work by the Austin Literacy people here.

On Success

When we're young, we believe in crazy things. I believed, for instance, that I would one day make money by my rudimentary ability to put one word after another and ending it with the correct punctuation mark...most of the time; And, OK, I did do a little magazine work, for mom-and-baby mags and for young-lonely-men-alone-in-their-room …

A hat on a fork. Really.

Sure, you're a restaurant, so why wouldn't you have an enormous fork outside just to drive home the point. And sure, you're attracting people to come in and celebrate graduation, so you use a graduation cap to catch the eye of potential customers. But then you end up with a cap on a fork. And …

On Shaving

There are many apparently straightforward things that seem like they will forever be beyond my abilities: putting up shelving; driving; not going for that third helping of barbecue. But maybe the simplest thing that I struggle with is the basic shaving of the face. It's not hard. We have all kinds of tools to help …

Donuts and Coffee 2016

Finally, a political movement we can all get behind. Unless you can't eat donuts or drink coffee. In which case, I'm just so very sorry. Save

The National Cheesecake Day top 5

Did you know that July 30, 2016, was National Cheesecake Day? I did not until a cruel work colleague, who knows I am supposed to be eating sensibly, mentioned it. She is clearly intent on my early expiration. To mark NCD, which is undoubtedly a real and genuine thing and not a marketing ploy in …

Not Your Daughter’s Jeans

Unless you're a grandma, in which case these may well be your daughter's jeans. But grandma, mom, or daughter, no one should be paying $60 for mom jeans. I bet Target have a sale on. Go on, take a look. I don't get commission; it's just the nearest store to my house and I am …