Extra Personal

When I worked at World Cafe, we spent an afternoon recording a session with Donovan. He’s one of the genuinely nicest guys I’ve ever met. I’d never have believed he’d become such an important part of my memories. At the end of the taping, he told me he wanted to share a special gift with…

My dad loved cars, music, and his family.  One of six siblings growing up in West Philadelphia (and, later, East Lansdowne), every story he told about his childhood always involved pranks, mischief, or general hijinx.  He spent four years in the Navy, sailing the Mediterranean and fishing Apollo astronauts out of the Atlantic Ocean. After he returned to the…

Mine isn’t the voice anyone needs to hear right now about the systemic racism that keeps tearing our nation apart. Yet, as I often tell my clients, silence is acceptance. Today, we now have to realize, silence is violence. Today is a moment for leaders—of all races, of all sexual orientations, of all economic backgrounds—to…

Jay Frank gave a toast when Lori Taylor and I got married that might have been as long as the actual ceremony. And though I teased him about it in the years since, I never doubted his sincerity. That really was the driving force behind our friendship over the past three decades. Because as many…