Fly the Friendly Skies – Big Wind Day

Big Wind Day.  #231wind  No, this is not about an airline and the problems they run into with a long history of customer satisfaction issues and overbooking. The post came about after seeing this meme passed along this morning from friend Lennox Chase. ” Don’t get mad. Don’t get even. Do better. Much better. Rise above.” […]

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Evelyn Dunphy – First Lady of Katahdin

Artist Evelyn Dunphy at work painting in a photo by Keith Spiro

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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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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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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A Chance Meeting with author Walter Mosley

The best thing I did the other night was to decide to join Malia Lazu at Emerson’s Paramont theater  for an intimate book reading and signing by Walter Mosley. Future Boston Alliance co-organized the event as well as Mosley’s eleven day “Obsessive Residency”  with ArtsEmerson. I knew Malia as co-founder of Future Boston Alliance but […]

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The day I got to sing with Amanda Palmer & Matthew Ebel

the day I got to sing with Amanda Palmer and Matthew Ebel was the turning point in how I viewed sales, service, marketing and communications. I became a builder of communities and have never looked back on the old ways and old rules. #innovation #entrepreneurial #social business. […]

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Signs of the Season

Autumn is a beautiful time for mother nature to show off her best color palettes but it is also the transition frenzy to politicians sprinting their final lap to elections. Here fall foliage and campaign signs compete for attention in Maine… The last day before the election saw this banner plastered all over both sides […]

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Basketball, Baseball and Ballet

Miami Heat Star Dwyane Wade, NBA MVP LeBron James and former Mets player and twelve time Major League All Star baseball player Mike Piazza share a very public presence with Ballet. The Miami City Ballet to be exact. A very creative and innovative arts organization that fears no boundaries as it reaches beyond its presumed […]

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