Evelyn Dunphy – First Lady of Katahdin

Evelyn Dunphy is the real Frist Lady of Katahdin. Long time watercolor artist and champion of the beauty of this region of Maine. […]

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A Seat at the Table

Do you stress over getting a seat at the RIGHT table? Are you suffering from FOMO? This post was inspired by dinner on an overnight train to celebrate our wedding anniversary. We were seated with strangers just north of Baltimore but found ourselves celebrating dessert with these randomly created new friends in Washington DC, without […]

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Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument

Happy 100th Birthday, National Park Service. How fitting that on the centennial of the National Park Service, Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument was declared official by the President of the United States. I was so pleased to have The Cryer select one of my images of Mt.Katahdin and the surrounding area for the September […]

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Inspiration – reflections on Inspirefest Dublin Ireland

I had the pleasure of traveling to Ireland and participating in Inspirefest. Held in Dublin, Inspirefest is a unique international festival of technology, science, design and the arts. Founder Ann O’Dea puts diversity and inclusion at the festival’s heart, and the ratio of women to men is a refreshing change from the still massively male […]

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The Platform, she said, was Chocolate

The platform, she said, was chocolate. And much of the marketing centered around  fair trade cocoa and real chocolate chips. I was sold. I got the whole concept in the first presentation. The hot chocolate mix was OK. What chocoholic could find fault with a product that had melting chocolate chips at it’s core? Even […]

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Magical Marketing of an Epic Eggplant

The Magical Marketing of an Eggplant of Mythical Proportion Yes, folks, this is truly an eggplant love story that started many decades ago when I first met my then future father in law.  He was a meat and potatoes kind of man.  When I first started dating his eldest daughter, I was quickly under suspicion […]

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The Lessons of Challenger -30 years later

The Boston & Maine Connection – PR Disaster Planning The lessons of Challenger – Fast Forwarded Thirty Years January 28th  a sad but also long ago memory brought back painfully fresh. It is the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. At the time, Outer Space, was the new frontier and frontiers are fraught […]

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