Dear Mr. President, I read that you are furious at being referred to as a “moron.” Given my last name, I feel imminently eminently* qualified to offer you some advice on how to best react and respond to being called a moron. * special thank you to itinerant editor, Kerry Brown. I have, in jest – […]
Next week, Wednesday, October 4th, I’m speaking at the Challenger Networking Group LA’s monthly meeting. I’ve given this presentation a few times the past couple of months. I enjoy it because it is a free-flowing, no audio/visuals, off-the-cuff series of anecdotes and audience interaction. Here is a promo image I created. Also, here is a […]
“Boxes are for holding things, minds are for exploring things.” Throw Away The Box: Origins During a business presentation in Phoenix several years ago, an attendee asked this question during the Q & A. “What did you do with your kids and what did your parents do to make you, and them, think so far […]
A bit over a week ago, I hosted Emiko at my house. It had been awhile since we had hosted a house concert and since she was on of my first performers, it was fitting to have her back. She brought her band – filling half the living room with people and the entire house, […]
“Nobody tells you when you get born here How much you’ll come to love it” Rich Mullin’s, Land of my Sojourn. Last night, around 9pm, I walked up the hill. I was looking out at Los Angeles when I noticed motion in the sky above me. Looking up, I watched as our owl (I am […]
Family Man © 2017 – Matthew Moran/Arrogant Sage Music A simple acoustic recording I did the morning I wrote it. Download here: (right-click/save as) or listen below. VERSE 1: Tip tip tapping on the office door, daddy let me in Holding a teddy bear, a bottle and a blanket, it’s edges wearing thin I bend down […]
This was initially published in The Wall Street Journal’s Career Journal – from my perspective column – back in 2001-ish. The advice still holds up! Sort of cool, the writer for the same column a week prior was Jack Welch. I always like this article because I wrote about my youngest (now 18) coming into […]
Last week I took a car into downtown to work in a coffeehouse (my house isn’t air-conditioned). I won’t divulge which car service. My driver and I started talking about how much he drives (7 days a week/8 to 12 hours per day) and that he wasn’t earning enough. A Career & Relationship Bundle He […]
“Writer’s believe they have something to say but are surprised as hell when anyone reads them.” I can’t recall where I read the quote above. And to be honest, that’s probably a butchered paraphrase. But the idea is solid. It’s a strange confidence when you know you write well; both the way you write (your […]
Interesting timing… I’ve been injured since the 2nd week of June. And the first week of June, I was in Ventura. My son had broken 5 ribs and ruptured his spleen in a fall. Finally back – still injured but I’d sat down to restring my weed-whacker to finish clearing the hill behind my house. […]