Blogs are funny

Above is my cousin, Michael and me after a successful fishing trip. This is around 1979. My father, Michael, and I used to go fishing every weekend on Greenwood Lake, NJ in our 18' Starcraft boat. The largemouth bass that Michael is holding was caught on a cranberry colored plastic worm. It was the largest bass any of us have seen from Greenwood Lake. This picture doesn't do it justice. The funny thing, my father owned the scale, and to this day he swears the bass was only 3 lbs. 9 ounces. I don't think he can bear the thought that Micheal's fish may have eclipsed the bass from the Lunker Club plaque that my father caught in 1973. To this day, the bass lunker club plaque hangs proudly in Gene's den next to his sanctioned 300 game plaque... And to this day, Michael's fish weighed 3-9.

This is me on the set of David Letterman (actually at Dave's desk) in 1998. My friend and ex-CBS producer, Sean Herbert, hooked me and my sales group up with a visit to the show and we took over the stage for a short while.


This is me skiing Vail in 2000. Company paid sales trip, and my ski partner was Ben Woo.


This is me in in a Beechcraft Bonanza at Teterboro Airport. Probably around 1972. My dad used to fly this plane.

Anyway regarding this blog:

Blogs sound like a good idea when you are in the creation stage, but when you are in the mode of updating and maintaining, not so good. Especially since this is a "stream of consciousness" blog. Most importantly, I'm not sure that writing every thought in my head would be the best move I could make, not knowing who is reading. This is not easy. I find myself writing for an audience, imagining what specific people will think as they read.

One of my writing professors, Dr. Kloss, told us that the best writers dance with their audience; moving in close for tender moments and separating at other times to the point of ignoring them. I'm pretty sure as a writer, I can ignore the audience, but can the audience ignore me? I promise, we will find out.