Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
Intro Sorry this one is a day late. The week has been rough. Last night, I had some concern I might die in my sleep. On Monday morning, I got diagnosed with...
Laugh Riot
Intro What were you doing on Jan. 6, 2021? I was prepping for a national TV interview about staffing at contract manufacturing organizations that were making...
Afterlifehacks for Ibburim
Intro I’ve never seen The Exorcist. I was 2 when it came out, so it’s understandable I didn’t catch it in the theater. I also somehow never caught it on...
Thank U India, Thank U Providence
Intro For a Virtual guy, I do revel in the analog. I wrote about that a month or so back — the joy I get from my daily postcard habit, mailing out the print-...
Samsonite
Intro Sorry this one’s a day late. I was getting two episodes of the show out this week, plus real work & more medical appts. for Dad. There’s plenty of...
As Is Now
Intro Just because I do the same goddamned things every single morning doesn’t mean I HAVE to do the same goddamned things every morning. It means I LIKE to...
Happy Cancerversary
Intro “Were it to be the lastHow infinite would beWhat we did not suspect was markedOur final interview.”—Emily Dickinson, #1164 Today’s my second...
One More Mailbox
Intro Man, the longest day of the year and I still didn’t make the time to finish this week’s newsletter. I’ve got a lot going on with work, esp. with a...
With an option to renew
Intro This past Monday was my semi-annual check-in with my oncologist to see if my chronic lymphocytic leukemia has progressed beyond Stage Zero. It hasn’t,...
Haiku for Business Travelers
Sorry to send 2 of these emails out in a week, but the long-(un)awaited second issue of my Haiku for Business Travelers ’zine came in from the printer...
The Haze
Intro I was going to tell you a story this week about a guy I kindasorta left for dead many years ago, and how I found out on Sunday he’s still alive. But I...
Vita Beata
Intro “Soto! Explore thyself!Therein thyself shalt findThe ‘Undiscovered Continent’ —No Settler had the Mind.”Emily Dickinson, #814 As part of my morning...
No Show
Intro “There is no Diligence like thatThat knows not an Until –”Emily Dickinson, #880 No podcast for you! Late last week, after a really busy month-plus of...
Talking drugs
Intro A team from 6 of the ~45 companies I represent at my trade association, + me (2nd from right). The last guy on the right is Newton to my Liebniz, or...
The Brush without the Hand
Intro This is my first installment in a few weeks not written on the road or immediately after getting home from biz travel, for which I’m thankful but . . ....
Ticketed Passengers Only Beyond This Point
Intro I got back from a business trip this morning. I landed around 4:30 a.m. in Newark after 36 hours in San Diego. It was almost just airport-hotel-...
No Geography
Intro [This began as an Instagram post, but transformed] On November 12, 2019 I stayed in the Historic Hotel Bethlehem in Bethlehem, PA for a client event...
Witness
Intro I’d like to write about something else this week, but I can’t. The guest I was going to record with on Saturday, Michael Denneny, was dead in his...
Trainwriting
Intro I’m on a train to Washington for some afternoon lobbying visits. The wifi’s awful today (it’s been better recently), so no idea when I’ll be able to...
There Is A Light
Intro I’m going to St. Louis to see my family this weekend. I haven’t seen my brother since 2018, nor my mom since 2017. Which, when I say, “I’m a horrible...
