I made myself proud today. Every week, I carve out Thursday mornings as my time to write, trying to come up with a week's worth of comic gems. What ensues is several hours worth of mental calisthenics as I try and think, write, edit, think some more, write some more, edit some more...and then edit again. And again. I write jokes that will be told to an audience I won't see or hear. I am forced to critically judge my own sense of humor without getting a confirmation back on whether or not I have judged wisely. I am grateful that I have Kim to read my finished strip everyday, if nothing else …
Archives for May 2003
Remind Me Never To Have A Business
Sometimes I wonder why we don't just let kids serve as CEOs of major corporations, because they have a knack of using their unjaded young perspective to provide wisdom and foresight few adults have. Let me relate a story passed on to me by a fellow business colleague about her daughter's early experience with the world of business. Morgan, 11, and her sister were selling candy bars to help earn their way to summer camp. Morgan and her Mom were busy about the task of counting the money from their sales. Amidst the mountains of money and candy stacked everywhere, Mom instructed her young …