“Judging others is easy because it distracts us from the responsibility of judging ourselves.” ― Charles F. Glassman, Author Her Name Was M — It has been so many years, decades in fact. I was living in Boulder, Colorado, trying to find a niche in the natural foods industry as a food broker, while at the … Read more
It has been a while since I have updated my profile on LinkedIn and other social media. I wanted to take the opportunity to do so on my website: After a successful career in marketing, marketing communications and new product development, I returned to my first love, my love of writing. Though I had written … Read more
My freelance writing business, Made Here Books LLC, has been in operation close to 12 years at this point. In that time, I have written for a broad-base of clients ranging from carpenters and mobile oil change services to internationally-known keynote speakers, business coaches and cyber-security experts. My clients have sought me out from all … Read more
On September 11, 2001, at 8:00 a.m., I boarded a plane bound for Chicago with a continuing segment to Westchester. I was then working for a food ingredient manufacturer and I was calling on a new account. The job was another in a string of jobs that began and ended nowhere until I realized I … Read more
Summer was Once My Happy Place Over the course of this summer, I have lost three friends. The circumstances surrounding their leaving this world are not relevant. Loss makes us feel old. And, as the arthritis and other maladies catch up with me, I begin to ask the questions that those of us balding and … Read more
So, where were you when the world turned angry? I am hoping you can supply me with a date and time. I am hoping we can pinpoint a location, an event or a technology. Most of all, I am hoping you can tell me what has happened. For I have never seen the world this … Read more
Politically I am Pretty Neutral The more I work on my book about being a paramedic in the time of AIDS, the more I am seeing parallels to the COVID-19 pandemic. I blame the Right, I blame the Left, I blame the medical community and I will not let China off the hook. Taking a … Read more
Somewhere in the Sea of Faces The picture I have posted was taken around 1907. They are European Jews fleeing the oppression of the Russian Pale. One of the girls may be my grandmother who immigrated to this nation from the rather flexible border between Poland and Russia. She may have been from an area … Read more
