I conducted my own impromptu poll of those described by me as “The Thumbers” – those people who successfully communicate through electronic devices by the use of one thumb on each hand, used singularly or in tandem, with reckless abandon. As a casting director, what I do for a living is called profiling. My question…
The northern outreaches of Korea were an abstraction on my own and very personal, daily canvas. They were almost all surreal days for me. At age nineteen, my only self-recognizable skills were those that had been God-gifted to me as an athlete. It had never occurred to me that reading and seeing were all part…
Membership is free just about anywhere in the free, or not so free, world. There they be, gathered together: nonsectarian, sectarian, agrarian, religious, persuasions of every imaginable ilk; cut evenly or torn in unmistakably boorish fashion; clear-skinned yet unmercifully pocked by every imaginable disease of deceitful presentation devised by their fellow man. The colors of…
Often, the sheer brilliance of my staff of colleagues is mind-boggling or, if nothing else, at least hard to fathom. Believing the premise that timing is everything, then consider an office where its players launch into a seemingly obtuse conversation regarding the origin and merits of backpacks and kazoos. The fact that last night, some…
Noted people reference their Fathers as they answer the question: “What would your Father have said?” My Father would have at least asked me what I meant by that. Dad always gave me a chance to explain. He always felt he had so much more in life to learn, and not enough allotted time to…