Business Holiday Greetings

Maybe I’m a holiday curmudgeon (I am), but do businesses really get any value from sending antiseptically-designed emails to all of their customers wishing them a happy holiday. It also doesn’t

Not My Home for the Holidays

There was a time that college kids and even grown kids returned to their childhood home for the holidays. We are a more transient society now where families not only don’t stay

Another Christmas, Another Trip

Rather than spend all day wondering which Chinese or Mexican restaurant I plan to eat dinner at, I’ve started traveling on Christmas. Why be home alone when I can be alone some

The Motivation of OCD

I don’t really have OCD, but I certainly have some tendencies that relate to ordering things and completeness. The running app I use to track my runs shows weekly progress as a

Not Quite a Banana

Chiquita Bananas have perfectly branded their shipping containers and tractor trailers by putting their banana sticker full size on the side. The only thing they could do better is make the trucks yellow.