Distance Doesn't Stop Connection

"No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.” – Charles Dickens

The holidays are an incredible paradox for me. On the one hand they are a celebration of love, gratitude, and the meeting of hearts in this world where we so often forget the joy...

What does it mean to connect to someone?

I’ve asked this question a lot. I get asked this question a lot as well. It’s a hazard of being a writer who made his latest name by “connecting” with people. I’ve heard a lot of definitions for what “connecting” is. Some of them...

I recently attended the SOCi Summit, a 3-day conference focused on social marketing at the local level. We were immersed in data and lessons presented by key figures from some of the biggest social media companies.   

I discovered that Google My Business is be...

ACT 1, SCENE 1

EXT. SECOND-STORY ROOFTOP GARDEN – SHORTLY AFTER SUNSET

It’s November 9th, 2016 in Charleston, South Carolina. Up above the city streets on the roof of a wood-paneled restaurant with sunshine-yellow trim, a distraught young woman (early 20s) is approached...

There are times in our life when we reunite with those who share some experience with us. Veterans laugh and joke over the stories from many thousands of bored minutes before the moments that will make the history books, or won’t. People gather in the lobby of a hotel...