
A NEW WORD SOON MAY LAND IN OUR LEXICON JOINING THAT REMOTE, DISTANT, UNFRIENDLY WORD ‘ALOOF.’  WHAT WOULD YOU THINK OF SOMEONE WHO’S ‘AROOF?’
Those who are aloof usually aren’t very warm and friendly fellows. They’re reserved and emotionally cold and detached persons who keep to themselves,  drink espresso and read philosophy. In Middle More...

HOW CAN WE SPELL WITH PEN AND PENCIL TODAY WHEN WE’RE SO DEPENDENT ON OUR TECH TUTOR?
Let’s say after a couple glasses of wine an idea buzzes in Phillup’s sleepy mind inspiring him to opine. The preposterous question swirling among his neurons is what role misogyny plays in artificial More...

ARE YOU CONCERNED WHAT THIS HEAT’S DOING TO OUR QUIETLY NESTING, MAYBE FESTERING SEA TURTLES?
If only sea turtles could talk. They wouldn’t freeze, mumble or stumble, but I’m sure they’d grumble about the heat we humans cause with our carbon emissions and greenhouse gases. While it’s More...

WANT A HEALTHIER, MORE COLORFUL MORNING OATMEAL? SPRINKLE CINNAMON AND WATCH EVERY OAT GLOAT!
Take it from me, a reformed SPIN MAN (title of my first book), who graduated to WORDSHINE MAN (my day job at TransMedia Group), but now every morning I arise and play a whole new exhilarating character. Meet More...

KEEPING AMERICA HEALTHY, HE MADE A FORTUNE; AS HIS PUBLICIST I MADE SURE MEDIA KNEW!
Borders Bookstore in Fort Lauderdale hosting authors Carl DeSantis, me and Broward Sheriff Nick Navarro in 1997 unveiling my book Spin Man along with their books I had Just published, Carl’s ‘Vitamin Enriched’ More...

SWEET SUNDAYS AT GRAM’S
My son Andrew and me on balcony at The Imperiale Palace In the spirit of keeping history on track as much as possible, I had to correct something my son Andrew said to me. No, I wasn’t an altar boy at More...

IN 2024 WILL A VICTORIOUS TRUMP THANK GRAND JURIES FOR IGNITING, MAYBE KNIGHTING HIM ONCE AGAIN? OR WILL A DEFEATED TRUMP BLAME INDICTMENT INCITEMENT?
History will undoubtedly dub 2023 as the year of indictment excitement! When’s the last time someone got so many criminal indictments in a single year, let alone a former President of the United States? More...

DO WE NEED CRISIS MANAGEMENT TO HEAR POLITICAL CANDIDATES WITHOUT HAVING TO CUP OUR EARS?
Are we to speak low when we speak love or politics? Will the cupped ear become a trademark, a political symbol, a familiar sight at political rallies? When you’re in PR like me and have been doing More...

WILL ENTREPRENEURS AWAKEN US FROM THOSE SEAWEEDY NIGHTMARES?
Sargassum seaweed that washed up on Florida beaches was not a pretty sight. A while ago, a salty new moneymaking opportunity washed ashore in South Florida just at its beaches were becoming nature’s dumping More...

WOULD LADY LIBERTY’S EYES BE TEARING IF SHE WERE ON THE TEXAS BORDER WITH MEXICO?
OSV News photo/Go Nakamura, Reuters For many, yearning to breathe free air is a costly affair. Especially for the shabby, defeated army of migrants driven to do whatever it takes to flee their lethally More...