May Day 2020
We have a chance to change business as usual, to make more conscious choices. Let’s not go back to a broken and deadly paradigm. Let’s move forward toward a society that lifts all of us.
Category: Preachin’ From My Chair
Lives Depend On It
I’ve checked the two big items off of my Civic Duty List this week. ✅ Early voting 🗳 ✅ Flu shot 💉 North Carolina’s early voting opened up last week, so I went to the polls on Tuesday. I was pleased that the staff was organized and easy to work with. My location used paper ballots, which is my preference....
A Good Photo Editor On Your Marketing Team Is EVERYTHING
My old commute included a daily walk between the Ferry Building and my office near the Dragon’s Gate entrance to Chinatown. Walking to work one morning, I noticed some lightpost banners from Northwestern University, advertising their offerings in Digital Media and Engineering at the San Francisco campus. The banners highlight San Francisco icons like they were pulled straight from Val...
On DST And Trading Sleep For Success
So, how are we all doing with Daylight Saving Time? Are you loving all that EXTRA DAYLIGHT1? *ducks under the flying rotten produce* Yeah, I’m not a fan, either. So a few weeks ago I found this “motivational quote” and accompanying advice in my planner2: “I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in...
re: #TakeAKnee
So I see World Leader Pretend decided that going off on Colin Kaepernick and Steph Curry was more important than helping Americans in Puerto Rico, who are facing an unimaginable humanitarian crisis. World Leader Pretend has even called for a boycott of the NFL if the players #TakeAKnee or sit during the national anthem. Sports fans should never condone players...
STRUNK AND WHITE ARE (not really) FULL OF BULL BISCUITS
So I recently came across another criticism of The Elements of Style, this time by writer A. L. Kennedy. The primary problem that I take away from Kennedy’s criticism of The Elements of Style is that she is confusing principles for rules. While the first chapter of the book is titled “Elementary Rules of Usage” the chapter that most of...