Oops! Somehow May and (nearly) half of June managed to slip by without writing a single blog entry. How did that happen? I wish I could say that I’ve been so wrapped up in fulfilling orders that I haven’t had a spare moment to sit down and write. Unfortunately that hasn’t exactly been the case.
Instead [...]
I love clothes, but I hate shopping.
It’s only natural to want to update your wardrobe each season. As the melting snow continues to give way to the green shoots of spring, I’m starting to weed out my closet. In tossing the things I can’t wear anymore because they are either too old or too big [...]
A couple of weeks ago I wandered into a needle arts exhibit at an Athenæum in Portsmouth New Hampshire when I encountered a piece of antique embroidery that looked eerily familiar. The tag said that I was looking at a piece of crewel embroidery from New England circa 1870. The strange thing was that it [...]
I was sitting in a conference last Thursday morning when I received the following text message:
“Is it interesting?”
I glanced up from my phone to see a group of professional football players flexing their biceps on the stage in front of me. Behind me were approximately 100 enthusiastic women assembled atop a strange configuration of chairs [...]
Have you ever been so baffled by a seemingly simple concept that you wanted to just give up?
For me that thing is marketing. You need do nothing more than say the word ‘marketing’ in my presence to elicit a groan. I’m told it’s vitally important to any small business, yet it renders me, a small [...]
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Salty Portland, Maine (Photo: mattie b)
Last week, I decided that it was time to get out of the mountains for a day, so I packed an overnight bag and visited my brother, Sean, in Portland, Maine. It’s a city with a colorful past and is Maine’s cultural capital today.
A few years back, a resident of [...]
