I have to admit that when I was in my ‘30s and ‘40s, I never thought I’d write about age discrimination, but now that I’m in my ‘50s and seen it first-hand, I wanted to share my thoughts on this topic. Coincidently, there was a syndicated article in yesterday’s Dallas Morning News, “Age Discrimination in… Continue Reading
It took me awhile, but I’m finally realizing what others have been talking about for so long. The way I consume content has changed – and I think it’s changed for the better. I still get a daily print newspaper; for some reason, I cannot conceive reading my Dallas Morning News online. No, I’m not… Continue Reading
No matter what type of business you’re in, it’s never easy to resign a client. Yet, the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks. We resign clients based on a number of reasons. Perhaps the scope of engagement changed and you don’t provide that kind of service … or the client may not be paying their bills.… Continue Reading
I just came back last night from the AICPA Advanced Personal Financial Planning Conference in Vegas (CPAs who also do financial planning – I am editor for their newsletter) and had the pleasure of sitting in First Class, thanks to my good friend Catherine who had first-class upgrades to use before they expired at the… Continue Reading
One of my daily fees is Intuit’s Small Business Blog. If you are not familiar with it, you should be. This is the blog that is part of Intuit’s Small Business Division – and shouldn’t be confused with the blog that I work on, Intuit Accountants News Central. That one is part of Intuit’s Accounting… Continue Reading
Today, I’m working from home and it’s one of those very-rainy days in Dallas. I hadn’t posted anything on my blog in quite a bit of time, so I thought I’d spend a few minutes telling you about how the year has gone so far. No witty observations about communications or marketing, just an update… Continue Reading
Nowadays, it seems that everywhere you turn, someone is trying to get away with something illegal. As a society, how did we get here? I realize fraud has been around for centuries – and probably since the cave man. Lately, it seems fraud is everywhere. Just this morning, I saw a story on CBS Sunday… Continue Reading
In his book, On Writing, Stephen King provides quite a bit of food for thought about the subject of writing, reading and words in general. I was reminded just this morning how influential King has been in my life, and in my writing, by a colleague on Facebook who wanted to know what everyone was… Continue Reading
Sometimes I feel just the shoemaker and his children who go without shoes because he’s too busy taking orders for everyone else’s shoes. Sure, I have downtime just like everyone else, but I often find myself NOT doing anything that is work-related, such as reading a book or watching TV – again, just like everyone… Continue Reading
Because it got MY attention, I took the title of my latest blog posting from the headline of an article that ran on March 16 in The Dallas Morning News. Here’s an online version of the article (with a different headline) from AP writer MIchael Avok. To summarize the article, the mother of a man… Continue Reading
