An art director friend and I have kept in touch over the years, usually in a nostalgic vein, but sometimes to vent. I’ll call him Hank. Hank rang me up yesterday to say that a long-time client had asked him to turn in his key. He was pissed. “Your key to what?” I asked. His […]
Men like to fix things. Everybody knows this. Women hug, men fix. Problem is, fixes rarely are the brief, pleasant gestures that hugs are. Fixes are much riskier than hugs, too. If a woman gives a man an unsuccessful hug, it’s no big deal. Thanks for trying. If a man offers to solve a problem […]
The “what if” game goes like this: One person dreams up wild scenarios and the other person imagines how he’d respond to those scenarios. Difficult choices are involved. “What if,” I might say, “you had to choose between blinding yourself and setting your dog on fire?” You might ask whether I meant legally blind or […]
