Tomorrow is Halloween. And, because I’m in advertising, I’m thinking of going as a doormat this year. Why? Because I’ve been walked on. And the ghosts from this year continue to haunt me. A while ago, I made the mistake of taking on a little extra work – just six hours a month at first – without increasing my contract by...

IT TAKES A LITTLE BACKBONE by James Jackson Its funny, while trying to come up with something to write, I realized I had not yet been inspired by anything that’s been going on around the agency. I asked myself, “Why is that?” In the beginning, inspiration was a bottomless well I was constantly drawing from. I unconsciously wrote about what was...