Need a Video of your Business or Organization?

Working with a fabulous Sarasota video videography team (if you would like their name, just let me know!), I managed a video development project for one of my Sarasota clients — the Church of the Redeemer. Click on the blue hyperlink above or here to watch the video — and if you’d like to talk […]

My Pics for Sarasota’s Sexiest

Today’s Sense and the City column in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune rocks my picks for Sarasota’s sexiest six people and six sexy/romantic/love-and-lust-inducing activities. I cover people like David Baas, Kerry Kirschner of the Argus Foundation, the former Scenestress Veronica Pastore, the Sarasota Film Festival, funny-woman Christine Alexander, and more! Click on the hyperlink above to read […]

I ♥ Hart’s Landing

Honesty and integrity are the only things we leave behind when we die. Work on it today.” I’d like to have met the man who thought like that. But Hart seems to have left one more thing behind: A much-needed legacy of a simpler time – and a place where the heart of Sarasota lives […]

Got news? MC is the new editor for BIZ (941) Daily

In 2011, BIZ 941 Magazine, the business sister magazine to Sarasota Magazine, asked me to edit news items for their daily e-newsletter that is read every day by thousands of Sarasota and Manatee County businesspeople. The newsletter is chock full of timely — sometimes breaking — news about local businesses, new businesses, unemployment and real […]

UFood Grill– Food U Might Like

I’m not a big stock market person, but over the past several months I’ve been buying some stock — not a ton, but just enough to make life interesting — in a penny stock called UFood. UFood Grill (www.ufoodgrill.com) is a burgeoning restaurant chain based in Boston. This new restaurant brand was founded by the […]

Stop the Payola to Lure and Keep Businesses in Sarasota

“No one likes them. Every one hates them. Yet states and municipalities continue to offer monetary incentives to seduce companies to choose their communities over others. And, of course, we, the taxpayers, pick up the tab.” — That’s an excerpt from a great article in today’s Sarasota Herald-Tribune BIZ Weekly section by Jerry Chautin, a […]

I AM … Who You Are

John Donne wrote, “every man is a piece of the continent”; Thoreau asked, “What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” Gandhi said, “Live simply so that others may simply live.” Tom Shadyac, in his new film, I AM, gives us reason to hope that […]

To boldly go … to the Longboat Key Education Center!

Yesterday, I had an absolute BLAST at the Longboat Key Education Center. I was there to give a talk and had a wonderful time speaking to and talking with the audience. The Center’s director Susan Goldfarb was super charming and the audience asked such great questions and added many great comments during the 30-minute Q&A […]

Speaking: Longboat Key Education Center

Speaking at the Longboat Key Education Center OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. January 17 3 p.m. Longboat Key, Florida. To register, visit http://www.lbkeducationcenter.org/