I published Gotta Start Somewhere, my first blog post, on May 17, 2008. I committed to weekly blogging on June 28, 2009, and have missed less than five Sundays since then. Almost 12 years later, I’m here to tell you that being frugal about managing the back end of my blog did not serve me […]
I have a question … or do I?
I exchanged messages recently with someone I had not communicated with for a few years. Between the last time we talked and the recent message, I had started working at my current job. The person I was talking to asked how my job was going. “I had a whole other career prior to this, so […]
Five Minute Friday: Does it matter how I park?
ONCE: Not once have I ever tried back in angle parking in our city. Back in angle parking (and I really have no idea the grammar of this — is it “back-in angle parking”?) is a parking scheme where drivers are required to back in to parking spots. Although many of us may choose to […]
Dogs in pods and an NFL betting license: January at SmartBrief
2021 got off to quite a start. I didn’t expect the pandemic-style New Year’s Eve celebration, with the bit of optimism we all tried to muster, to give away to a full-blown government insurrection less than a week later. But it did, and that crisis on January 6 has led me to shuffle around my […]
Hospitality in a pandemic: What your server wants you to know
In early March 2020, when the realities of COVID-19 were just dawning on the US, 32% of consumers said they planned to eat at restaurants less often, according to Technomic. Fast forward to January 2021, and we now know the realities all too well. In December, CNN reported that 10,000 restaurants had closed in the […]
Some things can’t be fixed
“Tell us about a news story that has captured your attention” is one of Kat Bouska’s prompts this week. I spend every workday reading a variety of news stories as I prepare eight different nonprofit sector newsletters at SmartBrief, so I scanned my memory for something that stood out. In the process, I went to […]