I don’t really remember how it began. But sometime, maybe five or six years ago, I started sending birthday cards to anyone who wanted one. No charge, no rules – just send me your snail mail address and when your birthday rolls around I’ll send you a funny, personalized card. It seemed like a pretty good marketing idea: Snail mail is an underused channel, so the cards stand out. Everyone has exactly one birthday, so while it applies across the […] Click to read more…

Believe me, I’m as surprised as you are. It seems like just yesterday I was telling you how we had just dropped off my daughter Emily at college in Tacoma, Washington at the University of Puget Sound. And yet here we are, already four years later, and she is now a college graduate (Phi Beta Kappa, thank you very much). Emily has a double major: anthropology and sculpture. The anthropology is interesting, definitely. But the sculpture? That is way cool. […] Click to read more…