Happy Thanksgiving

May your Thanksgiving be filled with dinner and peace.

always be knocking

Tad Friend's "Sam Taggart's Hard Sell" has me thinking about sales and my own efforts writing about it.

American holiday

"My client shut the grill cover and led us off the porch. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,300 points over the next three days. Within two months, my new-home inquiries dropped to zilch. You could say that's the life of a commission-based independent contractor, or you could say we were screwed. Two different clients took me to court to undo their deal and get their money back. That's when our slow demise became a race to the bottom. It was hard to adjust to our family's 'new normal,' so we spent as much in our first six months of living off savings and home equity as we did the next year. Eighteen months after falling through the floor, we'd gathered our wits enough to squint through the darkness and climb out of the mess we'd made."

~~ from "A Thanksgiving," by Alex Kudera

     Eclectica Magazine, July / August 2021

Among other things in 2018. . .

I'm thankful for five-star ratings of Fight for Your Long Day from people I've never met.