OK, everyone will be saying that John Edward’s is a two-faced liar. The former presidential candidate admitted to an extramarital affair while his wife was battling cancer. He also denied that he’s the father of the woman’s baby. While this can be one of those, “He who is without sin, cast the first stone” (don’t…
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When I was a child there was the expression from bullies, “Your ass is grass.” I never quite understood the logic. I assume it meant that the other person would mow you down. For a while it seemed that the New York Stock Exchange was about to mow down it’s former CEO. I was reading
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Today at 2:30 pm Cental, Bill Moller (someone I’ve known from CLTV before it was broadcast in color) is having me on his WGN-AM program, The Money Show. We’re going to be talking about how blogs can help (and hurt) your career and business. When Bill let’s me get a word in edgewise (he’s really
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While I’ve worked with celebs in the film and television industries, I’ve accepted the fact that what I do is unlikely to become tabloid news. That’s why I’ve decided to support Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz’s journey into fatherhood. My buddy Pete (not sure if he would see it that way) has shared with
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Yesterday, I went to the McDonald’s in the pedway of the 233 N. Michigan Avenue building in Chicago. My hope was to get one of those $1 large drinks for either a soda or sweet tea. I am crazy about sweet tea. Although I noticed something was out of place. Normally all the soft drinks
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Sometimes a blog posting just writes itself. Recently an associate from the Society of Midland Authors wrote this mock bio of my life and career: “Born in a log cabin on a barren desert island (all of whose trees had been cut down to build the cabin), Tom Ciesielka lived a life of grinding poverty
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Earlier this week I took the TC Public Relations team out for “TCPR Healthy Day.” The goal was to encourage our staff to think healthy while at work. I treated for lunch (had to be a salad or something non-greasy). We went for a walk to Millennial Park because walking and salads are both very
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The headline for this post is taken from something in today’s Chicago Sun-Times. The story is that Frank Gallagher, who spent 37 years as a mail room supervisor at a natural science museum in Philadelphia (my home town), had a species of catfish named after him – rhinodoras gallagheri. He got this new fame because
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People have pointed out that I need to do a better job of proofreading my blog copy. What’s “funny” about that is that I’m such a detailed and a perfectionist type of person. So it frustrates me that the copy is not correct.To give credit where credit is due, I thank my friend Margaret, who
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I’ve been reading Steve Martin’s autobiography, Born Standing Up. He says a couple things that struck me as interesting. First, he shares when he lost his virginity, I suppose that’s needed for some odd reason. Second, he says that he was shy. Now it’s hard to believe that someone with happy feet and an arrow
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