Month: April 2022
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Unlimited Bacon
Events pair well with food, such as youth group activity night and pizza. In the 90s I was a youth pastor, and at first, I asked parents to rotate covering the Domino’s order and beverages for the teenage horde. I soon ditched the idea, because food-logistics parent (usually the mom) would figure on four kids…
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A Non Sequitur Tale
I felt super-intrigued one afternoon, like the feeling one might get while reading an essay on correlation and causality, which I happened to be doing. My study was interrupted by a knock on the front door: someone taking a survey had shown up because I don’t have a doorbell. I sent them away because they…
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Influencer Aspirations
Well before “Mad Men,” Hollywood’s golden-era seemed often to glamorize the advertising executive, and between then and now came classics with characters in advertising roles such as the TV series “Bewitched” or the movie “Kate & Leopold.” And rightly so, as advertising is a big deal. Superbowl LVI (that’s “56” for you non-Romans) charged $VII…