The Little Words Mean the Most

On the theory...

...that there is always room in the world for one more honest masterpiece, I will soon publish for Kindle readers exclusively the nicer half of my memoirs: My Father's War Stories As Told By Toys.

My mentors, those who are older....

... they're all reporting, "I can't remember fuckall any more." Testament to abstemious lives, lived without excess.

I believe that any top animation studio would be better equipped...

... to govern the United States than the current Congress. The people who wrote and illustrated Rio or Toy Story 3 or The Lorax. They're smarter. They're better at telling stories. They can get big, complex things done. And eveything works out well in the end. That's the important part. Congress is supposed to telling the story of a successful nation for all. But they've lost the narrative thread I think.

It was odd to WW2 parents...

... those who bore the Baby Boom, that so many of their hippie-inclined male offspring looked like the Jesus seen in church: beard, long hair.

Do you gasconade?

Why you should fire staff from time to time

It's about survival. Because, as Darwin observed, if no one dies due to his or her failings, the species cannot adapt and evolve. Holding onto incapable staff is anti-evolutionary. Give everyone a reasonable metric. Those who don't perform must go. I'm a bleeding heart liberal. But I believe in evolution, for the good of the organization.

Plan International USA

Click to enlarge and check out the wall graphics. That's Nancy Isabel, Chief Philanthropy Officer (CPO), pushing buttons randomly to see if anything would work. The room was a full house. In this picture, they are hiding under the desks to surprise me.

I highly like CLT

Click an image to enlarge and savor the pretty airplanes and their micro-dramas. That's a sushi bar below.

My latest nano-novel

Two micro nano-novelettes, actually

Which do you prefer?

I long ago finished one of my "life manuscripts," titled "My Father's War Stories, As Told By Toys." Which book cover photo do you like better, left or right: GI-focused or Roman-focused? Thank you -- really -- for bothering to comment. No need to be polite.