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A Search For Who To Learn From
In the next to last poem he ever wrote, A Thanksgiving, W.H. Auden pays homage to the voices without whom, he reckons, “I couldn’t have managed / even my weakest of lines.” It’s quite a list: – Hardy, Thomas and Frost, for inspiring his early adolescent verse – Yeats and Graves for a young lover, discovering…
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Heroes In The Off-Hours
Creatures of Times Square, they’re just like us. They count their cash… they check the mirror… they experience moments of sadness… they comfort one another… they adjust themselves… they facetime with friends… and then they head home…
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The Sneaker Life
(Artist unknown, London, 2013)
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What Life Insurance Meant To McDonald’s, JC Penney & Stanford
It’s that weird time of year when people seem to make financial plans. Including life insurance? Guess so, but is there really any time of year when people think about life insurance? Life insurance isn’t exactly top of mind; USA Today calls it “the most ignored in fianncial planning.” Dare you to try and find a life insurance salesman under the…
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Happy Holidays
I had some fun making a video for my team as a warm-up for our holiday party, tonight. I’m so proud of everyone at Scratch for their incredible work this year — our biggest and best ever. This represents the first time I’ve ever been turned into a Belgian action star from the 90’s…
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Figurative Sidewalk Stain
(Artist unknown, Brooklyn, 2013)
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New Kicks
Thank you to my friends at Converse for these objects of beauty on my birthday!
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Knowing Your Place
Long ago, in what seems like another life, a colleague much senior to me (in age, experience and level) summoned me to his office on a Friday afternoon for a “chat.” Sounded ominous, and it was. I’d been working for the (unnamed) company for some time, and had achieved some early success. Enough success that I wasn’t just feeling confident, I was feeling unstoppable. …
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Formula 1 CMO Michael Williams Be Like
There’s having a martini…and then there’s having a martini with the guy that’s about to bring Formula 1 racing to America. I’m at The Lambs Club in Manhattan, having a drink with Michael Williams, former CMO of the NJ Devils, now the new CMO of Formula 1. Dude just walked me through the plan to bring racing’s…
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Trying Out My New Starbucks Name
Amorpha is a genus of plants in the pea family, Fabaceae. It’s also the name made famous by this SNL skit: Inspired by countless visits to Starbucks in which my name and my friends’ names are mis-transposed onto cups via green or black markers, I set out to test my new “Starbucks Name” in the field. Each time I’m asked for my name…
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