When our company launched a 100-word newsletter in 2013, we hoped we were starting something that had legs.
The 100 Guy
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Business leaders tell us and trade media the first few weeks of January 2022 were on fire.
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As we adjust to the deep structural changes the pandemic has wrought upon agency economics, perhaps none is more of an existential threat than the Great Resignation.
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Returning to its first in-person conference following a 2.5-year break, the executive committee of PRSA’s Counselors Academy was looking for a new idea to build momentum and community for its September 2021 Nashville event.
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Returning to its first in-person conference following a 2.5-year break, the executive committee of PRSA’s Counselors Academy was looking for a new idea to build momentum and community for its September 2021 Nashville event.
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One day, when I led an in-house agency for The Charlotte Observer, the publisher decided the newspaper needed a new slogan.
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I’ve lived that Jefferson quote since I was a teenager.
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My dad wanted me to be a lawyer or doctor.
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Some of my friends were elated by the Republicans’ $1.9 trillion tax cut in 2017.
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Other than in intramural boxing class or my best friend’s single slug on the second grade playground – I’ve never been in a fistfight.
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A group of lifelong friends gathered outside for a socially distanced dinner to celebrate my birthday last month.
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A favorite moment when I’d meet with business owners (in-person, pre-pandemic) occurred when I’d casually mention I’d sold my business (three years ago this month).
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Amidst pandemic, economic collapse, racial disparity and political warfare, do you wonder how America would be faring if we instead followed what God asked us to do?
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Major religions all share the tradition of making a pilgrimage – a journey to increase knowledge of self, nature and/or God.
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Two years ago, I spotted Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne exiting our plane at DCA. “I never stop celebrities,” I told him, “but in my world of journalism, you’re a rock star!”
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When Pharaoh refused to release the Israelites from slavery, 10 plagues changed his mind.
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What will families remember from this pandemic pause? Tension? Peacefulness? Will a predicted baby boom be confined, as young parents jest, to firstborn?
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When people gather near the Mississippi River to watch a sunrise or sunset, they often grow silent, watching the miracle respectfully as another day is dedicated.
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Americans have been divided for much of our history. (See the election of 1800.) Today, with social media and tribal cable channels, it might appear a bit more acute.
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A few weeks ago, I helped with my granddaughter’s nighttime routine. It always starts the same way: she selects four…
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In my 20s, when I was put in charge of a 25-person marketing team spread over two floors at The…
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In my 20s, when I was put in charge of a 25-person marketing team spread over two floors at The Charlotte Observer, I observed our biggest weakness was communications. Ironic, since we were in that business.
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I hopped off the Southern Crescent from UVA, hurried to my Great Aunt Bolling Spalding’s funeral and fell in with…
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My introduction to chitlins was at the The Big Dinner sponsored by Washington County Sheriff Harvey Tackett. A friend later…
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“Twenty years ago, there were only five cars on this street — and they belonged to store owners,” said Bubba…
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To get there, drive 40 miles south down Highway 61, until the hills suddenly drop onto the flat, rich plain…
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My seventh grade English teacher’s homework assignment was one sentence by William Faulkner. Simple, right? It carried on for five…
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Thanks to B.B. King’s relentless touring schedule – appearing in 342 shows in 1956 – he was known worldwide as…
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The first blues song I heard growing up on Atlanta college radio was “Cross Road Blues,” 1936, by genre progenitor Robert…