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Nov 4, 2021

SARM #13, in which I finally deliver on the whole "frisson" thing...

Dec 15, 2020

Startlingly Awesome & Refreshingly Modest #12...will give you chills.

Dec 12, 2020

I'm sorry. I'm truly sorry.

Nov 23, 2020

Well, I guess we need to talk about coronavirus again. I don't wanna, but I gotta. And yes, that's a Naked Gun reference. You're welcome.

Nov 20, 2020

I'm baaaaaaaaack! [Insert sweet guitar riff]

Nov 19, 2020

Well, it’s been six months. A few things have changed. I stopped being Inntopia’s Director of Marketing and am now doing marketing consulting for only…

Mar 21, 2020

The other day, one of my kids came running out into the living room and told us (breathlessly, in his best tattle tale soprano) that the other kid had…

Oct 7, 2019

Almost exactly one year ago, I went on a consumption diet because I was “a faint shadow of what I am capable of.” A consumption diet, which is a term I…

Sep 16, 2019

Okay, first, I hope you’re proud of yourself. Because of you, I’ve now done this five times in a row, which it puts it well beyond the realm of…

Sep 9, 2019

Today is Monday, but it’s a holiday, so it counts as a Sunday. I hope your Labor Day weekend was startlingly awesome. Feedback on this newsletter is now…

Sep 3, 2019

On Saturday, my mother turned 65. As is typical for 65-year-old women, she wanted to go sky diving. So we spent the weekend with her in a rented house…

Aug 26, 2019

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