Writing from the Heart with Brian
Think, Laugh, & Cry Each Day
When I was a kid, summer was the best. My mom gave me chores, but life was great, no school, no homework, life was a breeze. At least, until Decision Day. In my little world, that meant the day that the school posted the classroom assignments and I would learn who I would have for... Continue Reading →
Axios HQ, a global management firm, surveyed 540 executives and over a thousand employees earlier this year and estimated that the cost of ineffective business communication annually in the U.S. runs companies more than $2 trillion. The number grows exponentially when you factor in the billions spent each year on business communications training courses with names... Continue Reading →
Grammar is a such strange thing. It looks so easy. You think you've figured it out, you think you know the rules, and then something comes up out-of-how-no-where and you need to follow a completely different rule. Who can follow all that? I know I can’t. I've worked as a newspaper reporter. I've written speeches... Continue Reading →
It's always strange when the shoe gets turned on the other foot. I'm not sure this saying translates all over the world, but the idea is that you're negotiating with someone and something happens that reverses the situation, putting you in a tough spot. A few weeks ago, I posed a series of Mystery of... Continue Reading →
As soon as we got off one theme park ride, we ran to the next and the next. Fifteen years ago, we went to Walt Disney World. Our kids had been asking and my wife and I had been working hard at work. We needed the break. We saved up the money and set a... Continue Reading →
(Reposting a previous blog with some slight editing and an updated ending) When I was very young starting out in kindergarten and first grade, I hated school. I struggled to make friends and get used to a new routine. When the lessons really started taking off, I found myself falling behind my classmates. I may... Continue Reading →
I don't know for certain, but I suspect Alexander Hamilton would understand. I write today in my blog, Rounding up the Gremlins, on The Heart of the Matter about how I fall back on writing when I'm faced with troubling times. Outside of my wife and family, my writing is my constant companion. Yes, I... Continue Reading →
(Reposting from a previous blog with some slight editing and an updated ending) I came out of the classroom and wanted to scream. I had spent hours studying for the Econ 101 test, but I felt like I had been lied to by the professor. His test included a number of questions on topics that had... Continue Reading →
When we still worked together, a coworker and friend of mine from London liked to call me every July 3 to wish me a "Happy Treason Day." He liked to follow-up by calling me an "ungrateful colonial" and promised to stop sending my team Cadbury chocolate, English tea, and Guinness Beer. Of course, I got... Continue Reading →
Writing from the Heart with Brian 
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