One of my greatest pet peeves is an absolute hatred for the forwarded email. Of course, not all forwards are created equally. The obvious jokes are an inconvenience, the warm and fuzzy moments of zen are trite, but the unsubstantiated political reports are downright infuriating. Certain members of my family love to forward these things [...]

One of the primary challenges of a mid to large golf operation is the same as any other mid to large sized company- good communications.

Throughout the industrial era of modern history, thinkers have railed against the real and imagined evils of technological “progress.” From Dickens (Oliver Twist) to Thoreau (Walden) to Carson (Silent Spring), writers have decried the loss of some tangible good to the grindstone of advancement. We have all felt it in our lives- bottled water, spam, [...]

Yesterday the new BCS rankings came out, and I, like many other college football fans, am once again miffed with a terribly flawed system. Florida was selected out of the list of one loss teams to play Ohio State in the national championship game. As incomprehensible as this choice was, I was even more distubed [...]

Several months ago my wife and I visited a new church. With the birth of our first child, we thought that it was time to find a congregation that was more youth-oriented than the one that we have been members at. We were impressed with everything that we saw and I, as a marketer, was [...]