Thank You For My Freedom

God Bless the fallen and our troops defending our freedom as I write this. Please take a moment to remember and honor all we have to be thankful for. There’s always a contribution to be made. As you know, I am a passionate returned Peace Corps volunteer and...

Though the Looking-Glass: What This Social Media Consultant Does

“What do you do,” asks an unknowing family, one-by-one. I oblige and explain, and yet am asked again, “what do you do?” I guess the better question might be is, what does it mean to have a job on the cutting-edge, where business decisions are...

Pressure To Make An 'Under 40' List

I don’t know if  it’s the Ivy League over-achiever in me or if I’m simply more competitive by nature than I realize, but I feel strangely panicky about having not made a 40 under 40 as yet. It’s not as though I’ve achieved nothing; I...

More Peace Corps. Bigger. Better. Bolder.

Today is the Peace Corps National Day of Action. It also happens to be the day I finally uploaded some of the many photos from my tour of duty in Turkmenistan. A coinsidence, I think not! The Peace Corps comes up for me on a nearly daily basis. In fact, I spoke on a...

Peace Corps Week Kicks Off

Wow! I can hardly believe it’s been nearly 10 years since I returned from my work as a Peace Corps volunteer English teacher in Turkmenistan. Connecting flights in Azerbaijan… ah those were the days. But I digress… Something I saw on telly last week...