Work

For years I've tried to explain what I do to my Mom, Dad, or in-laws. They never get it.

I don't make an object you can buy. I don't provide a service that's easy to understand - like "doctor" or "waitress." The technology throws people off.

My son thinks I'm famous because I get my name in the paper.

I write the Business Filter for Boston.com a daily blog of biz, innovation and tech stories you don't want to miss. Selected stories from the blog run as a column in The Boston Globe every Monday. I also write articles for the Globe and other publications.

And as a writer, marketer and creative developer I help companies create, communicate, define or sell things. OK, they're not really things...they're usually ideas, technology products, websites or media.

Some of my recent jobs:

• WeeWorld
  
• National Grid Wireless
  
• Mobot
• Lycos
• SkyGo

If you want the fine print - here's my resume.

Poets

"There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either." ~ Robert Graves

Mary Oliver
W.S. Merwin
Carolyn Forche
Galway Kinnell
Alan Dugan
Joy Harjo
Seamus Heaney
Donald Hall
Patti Smith
Dylan Thomas
William Butler Yeats
e.e. Cummings
Robert Frost


"Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket." ~Charles Simic

Wine

Wine is bottled poetry.
- Robert Louis Stevenson






A wholly incomplete list of wines we like:

NEW FAVORITES - WHITE

Atlantis wines:
Ferrari Carano Fume Blanc - Sonoma
Louis Chavy Pouilly Fuisse Burgundy

La Sablette Muscadet Sevre et Maine 2004 - Had this in Quebec served icy cold - great with seafood - Yum!
WILLIAM FEVRE Chablis 2003 CHAMPS ROYAUX

WELCH HOUSE WINES - WHITE
Rodney Strong Chardonnay
BERGERIE DE L'HORTUS Classique 2003
J. Lohr Chardonnay
Bearboat Chardonnay
Santa Margarita Pinto Grigio


ZINFANDEL
Peachy Canyon Westside Zinfandel 2003
Hartford Zinfandel 2004


NEW FAVORITE - RED
David Bruce - Petite Syrah

WELCH HOUSE WINES - RED
Qupe - Syrah
Greg Norman - Shiraz or Cabernet Merlot
Rodney Strong - Cabernet


HALL OF FAME
Duck Horn Cabernet

TELL us about a wine we should be drinking...

Books

What I'm reading now

What the Dog Saw: and other adventures


What I've already read

• That Old Cape Magic


• A Thousand Acres


• The Lost Symbol


• Olive Kitteridge


• The Plague of Doves


• Drilling Down, Turning Customer Data into Profits with a Spreadsheet


• Devil in the White City


• Blink


• The Monsters of Templeton


• The Tipping Point, How little things can make a big difference


• Buy-ology, Truth and Lies about Why We Buy


• Sway, The irresistible pull of irrational behavior


• America at Home


• Three Cups of Tea - a life-changing read


• The Lace Reader


• Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories


• Close Range: Wyoming Stories


• Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life


• Great Plains


• Shakey - Neil Young's biography


• The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid


• The Old Man and the Sea


• Ines of My Soul


• The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot


• Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zepplin Saga


• Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life - Steve Martin autobiography


• In the Time of Worms - an ancient tale of Marblehead


• The Madonnas of Leningrad


• Hooked


• Middlesex


• Suite Francaise


• Brazen Careerist


• Leaving Microsoft to Change the World


• Easter Rising


• A Long Way Gone


• Kitchen Confidential


• A History of the World in 6 Glasses


• Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
  


• Rich Dad, Poor Dad


• 2006: The Chautauqua Rising


• The Nasty Bits


• The Last Days of Dogtown
  


• Lily Dale: The True Story of the Town that Talks to the Dead
  


• Four Souls


• The History of Love
  


• Heat - foodie heaven
  


• The Devil Wears Prada
  


• The Brief History of the Dead


• Marley and Me - Slap me, I'm becoming a dog person
  


• Zorro: A Novel
  


• The Circus in Winter - *new all-time favorite*


• The Birth of Venus


• Lucky Man: A Memoir - Michael J. Fox - It's not what you'd think. It's really good.


• The Time Traveler's Wife


• The Namesake


• The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency


• His Dark Materials, a Trilogy


• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time


• Gift of the Sea


• Evidence of Things Unseen


• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince


• Freakonomics


• Father Joe


• Bob Dylan Chronicles


• In Her Shoes


• Good in Bed


• Little Earthquakes


• Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius


• State of Fear


• Pitching My Tent


• The Kite Runner
  

Family