Thursday, May 31, 2012

The work that goes into the work.

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During my last couple of years at Ogilvy, I had what was by far the best, most prolific run of my career. I've always enjoyed doing prin...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Some ancient words.

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I'm fortunate to be blessed, I think, with a demanding mind. A lot of things interest me and I take great joy in learning. It's vexi...
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Job creators.

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Over the past few years, as our country has once again become riven in two (the old Civil War boundaries are becoming relevant again) we...
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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

An evening in the world's second largest Jewish city.

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To be a Jew, I think, is to be always on the outside. With the exception of a small strip of desert in the Middle East and a small strip of ...
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A sartorial insight.

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It's as hot as an armpit in hell in New York this morning. The temperature is in the 90s, as is the humidity. And it all feels a littl...
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Sunday, May 27, 2012

We should have known better.

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I am up in Cape Cod with my family, staying at one of the world's most idyllic places, the Chatham Bars Inn. I'm lucky. I like...
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Friday, May 25, 2012

One isn't the loneliest number.

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Some years ago I worked for a termagant of a boss (look it up) who was in the process of ordering me to do or write something. I said to h...
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Some poetry has died.

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I realize I write a lot about dead people. But ever since I was, as we say in New York, knee-high to a cockroach I have enjoyed reading the ...
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Thursday, May 24, 2012

32 years of therapy.

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A friend of mine just sent me a note. She's unhappy in her job and was offered a new one elsewhere. At the last moment she turned dow...

___________________ are dead.

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Yesterday a friend from another agency passed along a resignation note to me. The note contained these pearls of "wisdom." Mos...
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