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I’ll Be Back Soon

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Damn! It’s been pretty quiet around here lately — a record-long silence, in fact. I don’t like the silence, especially since AttentionMax site has long been an important venue for me to express feelings, explore new subjects and crystallize thoughts. This is true for a range of passions, including marketing and tech, work, parenting and [...]

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Food Trailers In Portland, Oregon

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We recently spent a few days in Portland, Oregon for a wedding. This was our first time. It’s a wonderful city with a lot to love — beautiful scenery, progressive green town, art, music, history, breweries and coffee shops. But one thing I especially love: the food-trailer scene. Upon landing in Portland, we headed straight [...]

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Hurricane Hype

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It’s Sunday morning and the eye of Irene — downgraded from hurricane to tropical storm — just passed through our area north of New York City. Fortunately, early reports indicate there weren’t too many deaths on the entire East Coast (less than ten from reports I’ve seen thus far). We’re relieved the worst is over and [...]

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Mutual Fund Conspiracy

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Yale University chief investment officer David Swensen penned a persuasive argument for reigning in the mutual-fund industry through investor education and government regulation. It is shocking how an industry, “which manages more than $13 trillion for 90 million Americans, has employed market volatility to produce profits for itself far more reliably than it has produced returns [...]

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Premium Water

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Most people think of “premium water” as water that comes in a bottle, marketed heavily with some exotic name, origin and packaging. To me, the most premium water is that which comes out of the tap in New York City and at our home in Westchester, New York. Once given a few hours for the [...]

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Container Garden Update

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Back in late May I shared this year’s container gardening action on our back deck. Several friends and family have asked how it’s all going, so here’s an early July update. My flower-box theme features orange-red florescent geraniums, with white and powder-blue bacopa. They’ve filled in nicely, with the geraniums aggressively sprouting new flowers every [...]

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Brothers Day

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“Why is there a Mothers Day and a Fathers Day?” my four-year-old son Julian asked. “Because mommies and daddies are special,” I replied. “Well, why isn’t there a Brothers Day?” he asked. “Because every day is Brothers Day,” I replied. “Oh,” he said, disappointed and unsatisfied. This was a real conversation a few days ago, [...]

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