The Copywriting Maven

My apologies for being AWOL. In preparation for a business trip to Amsterdam, I spent super-long days trying to clear my desk of other client work.
You know me, always trying to make everyone feel well-served.
Im still here in Amsterdam having had the time to do precisely one must-do event after a long week of meetings [...]

No doubt you’ve seen many portraits of our President-Elect using this posterized red, blue and ivory-colored treatment. I’m not a huge fan of it as it reminds me of Stalin-era propoganda posters, but …
I couldn’t resist making my own. This is a posterized version of my Facebook/Twitter avatar. Like it?
When you’re ready to try your [...]

Every once in a while I purchase or read about a nifty new tech gadget and I think about my dad. He died in 1975 and loved everything technology.
We had a color TV in 1959, before there even was color broadcasting.
We had push-button phones while the rest of the world was still using circular dials.
An [...]

I’ve always loved portrait photography. Frankly, there are times I can’t imagine wanting to photograph anything else. Here’s why.
Annie Leibovitz, reprinted with permission from the artist, John Keatley.
That’s it for a rainy, sleety Saturday afternoon. Pure art, pure pleasure. Enjoy.

photo credit: veganstraightedge
I’m getting to do a big, top-to-bottom rewrite/rework/revamp for a non-profit agency website.
It’s information-intensive on purpose. Visitors who visit this site want a lot of information well before they send an email or pick-up the phone. The current site, although ancient in web years, still gets credible marks by visitors.
As I’m wont [...]