Nearly a week has passed since I drove around New York City, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C. visiting family and friends. There are many stories I could share, but I first want to bring you into a particularly unusual and uplifting encounter. Last Sunday I met for brunch at Columbia Country Club in Chevy Chase, […]
Some organizations need to be restructured to operate more efficiently and have a bigger impact on society. There needs to be more input into the strategic direction, priorities, investment decisions, branding, and public perception. One of those needy organizations is, you’ll be surprised to learn, Sammy Sportface Rocketship Enterprises LLC. Adrift in a sea of […]
How can this be? You work for a company where people tell you how incompetent you are, bring up your poor performance management issues constantly, tell you you’re being defensive and your lack of technical knowledge is noticeable and your skillset isn’t what they need, and to please go away and don’t come back. A […]
While dancing last night on a ballroom floor a whiffle ball’s throw from I-95 and the New Jersey Turnpike where all the smokestacks stew 24/7 365. Imagined myself as John Travolta in “Saturday Night Fever” and the Bee Gees blurted “More Than a Woman.” Was feeling it. Sensed the crowd staring and wondering and asking […]
Driving through the post-midnight darkness, fast-flickering flashes of memories of a life he lived fully many years ago in New Jersey — for 23 years — kept going off in his head. The Little League baseball park in Middlesex with the sweet home run fence; the Rutgers U campus where he took a cool advertising […]
Fed up with all the Caitlin Clark hype, mad about all things March Madness that didn’t go his way which was everything, and needing to get out and go and whiff the Northeast fumes, Sammy Sportface jumped in his Highlander this morning headed towards Gotham City, home of Batman and Commissioner Gordon. He’s got plans […]
I remember being in a Chicago restaurant one time some 20 years ago and the waitress being exceptionally nice and patient. She wasn’t in a hurry to go anywhere or get my order out of her way but rather kept talking to me seeming to be genuinely interested in the conversation. I remember thinking to […]
