
5th Anniversary of COVID-19 in America | Weekly Report for January 17, 2025
On January 17th, 2020, one month after the outbreak of Coronavirus (later called SARS COVID-19), the CDC began screening airline passengers in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles arriving from Wuhan, China. It didn’t work. Covid arrived…

Cheese Strata | Weekly Report for December 6, 2024
A few years back I wrote an article about Christmas traditions and how different folks around the world celebrate the holidays in different ways. In that article, I shared one of my…

Commencement Advice: Wear Sunscreen | Weekly Report for May 12, 2023
The commencement speaker at Virginia Tech’s graduation this morning was Jean Case, Chairman of National Geographic Society and CEO of the Case Foundation. It was a nice speech delivered by “a digital pioneer.” Case started her…

The Two Hardest Words to Say | Weekly Report for June 17, 2022
Mistakes are part of life. We either learn from them or we don’t. We all slip up from time to time. Except me. #JustKidding A mistake. A goof. A screw-up….

Messaging Behind Music in Ads | Weekly Report for June 3, 2022
You’re going to want to tune into this blog! Music is a universal language everyone can understand. In a world where we’re bombarded with data and visual messaging, the art…