Saturday’s Press Democrat had a dramatic photo on the front for the article “Recycling at a loss.” The photo was of a Redwood Empire Disposal worker walking past several enormous mountains of garbage. The photo caption explained that this was stuff that people had put into their blue recycling cans [...]

As part of our trip last weekend to bring Jennifer Lynn home after her first year in college, we planned to rendezvous with Valerie, our 22 year-old daughter who is also lives in Southern California.  We would all meet in Ventura where Valerie’s boyfriend lives and then continue north, taking [...]

My boss is a very experienced and savvy traveler so when we needed to make hotel reservations for the two of us for a trade show in Connecticut, what hotel did she use? She didn’t make hotel reservations at all, but instead reserved a townhouse through Airbnb.  This was going [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I came upon a New York Times article about men who are famous enough that they can wear the same thing every day. Guys like Mark Zuckerberg in his ever-present gray t-shirt, hoodie and jeans. And before Mark, there was Steve Jobs who never left [...]

For over 20 years, Steve has had the opportunity – and privilege - to develop the marketing communication materials for Bubbies Pickles. They are a family-owned business that understands the value of creating a brand message and staying true to that message in all forms of communication. Bubbiemobile [...]

It’s been a little more than six months since our son deployed to Korea so it was wonderful to get a phone call from him on Saturday morning. One interjection: if you’re like me, you’re used to hearing “deployed” followed by “to Afghanistan” or “to Iraq.” But I have come [...]

When I asked Steve how he wanted to celebrate his birthday – this was one of those milestone decade birthdays – he said that what he would enjoy most would be to have dinner with our daughters who are in Southern California. Given the way they both love to tease [...]

There’s a trend that I’ve been reading about that is another example that everything old is new again. People are suddenly fascinated with “tidying up.” This is a concept that I was very familiar with when I was growing up in the 1960s – except in our household, tidying up was [...]

An article appeared in the paper a couple of weeks ago that continues to roll around in my mind and whenever I think about it, it really makes me feel sad. I can hear someone saying, “Really?! There’s just the one article that left you depressed?”  No…and taken in the [...]

So I was at the gym on Saturday morning, working up a sweat on the elliptical machine with my headphones on. I was totally in the zone, keeping tempo to One Republic’s “Love Runs Out” on Spotify on my phone and watching a Food Network chef make Mexican lasagna on [...]