by Mark O'Brien | May 18, 2015
In the summer of 1971, I was 17 years old. My friend, Bruce, and I went to see B.B. King at the Oakdale Theater in Wallingford, Connecticut. We may have been the only two white dudes in the place. We most certainly were the youngest. And we were in no way prepared to...
by Mark O'Brien | Apr 22, 2015
The image above has been making the rounds in various web media for a while — LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, et al. In the interest of giving proper credit for the image, I searched for attribution for its creator and could find none. Nevertheless, I use it here to...
by Mark O'Brien | Mar 13, 2015
COLOMBO (AFP) — Sri Lankan police arrested an astrologer after he predicted a planetary change this month will be inauspicious for parliament and the government may not be able to arrest rising living costs – a prediction already made by private economists … Sri...
by Mark O'Brien | Feb 9, 2015
With a caveat here and a caveat there, another over here for good measure, and one more for the road, we’re on the record: We don’t have to like inbound marketing and marketing-automation tools, but they’re here to stay. And all that...
by Mark O'Brien | Dec 17, 2014
One of my posts elicited a comment from a wonderful lady, Lupe Eyde-Tucker, that reminded me of how meaningful our stories are — and how important it is to share them. Thank you, Lupe, for the reminder and for inspiring me to share this story. Some years ago, I took...
by Mark O'Brien | Dec 3, 2014
Despite my Irish luck, and for the first time in my charmed life, I was recently stranded overnight in Toronto Pearson International Airport. I’d flown from Bradley International in Hartford, Connecticut, at 7:00 a.m., with a return flight scheduled at 8:55 that...
