“Sonny boy, you know the diference between folks with money and folks like me and you?” Were I wiser, or older, maybe, just maybe I would have paid attention to the answer. But I wasn’t and I didn’t. I was too busy wondering “What am I doing here? This guy is a plumber, not a [...]

Two weeks ago, my family made the move to Texas from Orlando. It was a journey set in motion nearly a year ago, and onethat I’m happy to see over with. The move itself was, thankfully, an entirely painless affair, other than my having to drive one of the vehicles 18 hours to my final [...]

A few days back, while cleaning my garage, I came across a little worm that has been very good to me in the past, though it has been years since I used it. Heck, I was shocked to see any left in the bag. The lure was a YUM Notta Worm, a french fry-type morsel [...]

While writing a guest blogpost for FishHound, I made what I think was a very important point that I’ll only touch on here: You don’t need to be the first player in a market or category to be the most successful. (Ed. note. In a later blogpost, I’ll detail why it’s often detrimental to be [...]

By now we’re all pretty solid on the fact that, despite the prevalence of folks using social media, only a select few really understand how it’s best used. Obviously, people are using Twitter and Facebook to market their businesses, hawk their wares and bring eyeballs to their ads. There are also inumerable folks using social [...]

“Let me just say that I am a comfortable-in-my-own-skin heterosexual guy, but you are a handsome man.” Those were the first words I ever uttered to Jose Wejebe. The year was 2006, and I strolled into the ICAST breakfast reception and ended up standing directly in front of the Shimano table, where Wejebe was seated. [...]