Hello again! Happy Holidays

Christmas is just around the corner and I’m sending wishes that you enjoy the holiday with dear friends and family creating lasting memories! As I write my final message to you for 2018 – looking forward to 2019, I’m thinking of how lucky I am that you all let me in your inbox time and […]

Engage like you’re a puppy

What?  Why would you engage like a puppy? Well, one of the biggest reasons is for the fun and another is everyone will adore you. Now I know what you’re thinking – I’m in a serious business, why in the world should I concern myself with being playful? Maybe because the National Institute for play, […]

The Secret to Loving Your Commute

Commuting is on my mind this week, not only because I traveled to no less than six American cities in the past couple of weeks, but because my hometown of Tampa (Hillsborough County) finally passed adding a penny on the dollar to our sales tax for transportation improvements.  That’s about $180 per year on average […]

Walls Are There for a Reason

Did you ever hear the story about the police officer that was chasing a young man who he believed had committed a serious crime? The suspect was tall and fast, and the officer chased him through an alley, over a dumpster and through a convenience store. As the story goes, when the man jumped over […]

Bring it!

I just returned from a trip to New York – business first in the city and then a couple of days in small cities to the north where the “leafers” come up from Manhattan and surrounding areas to enjoy the fall foliage. Everywhere I looked I saw the effects of intended and unintended change, stagnation, […]

The Batteries are Draining Me!

Those of you who have been reading this column for a while know that I love to sail.  And of course those of you who own boats know boating is a never ending opportunity to learn “stuff.”  I still really dig the “learning stuff” part and this past week it was about the electrical system […]