Tag / Ahwatukee

My new favorite television show is The Pitch on AMC, the show offers viewers a chance to see how top ad agency’s pitch to get the business of companies.  So it got me thinking,  aren’t there ad agencies out there to help a small business like me? Sadly I don’t have millions of advertising budgets to throw out [...]

My spring newsletter was just sent out, are you signed up? One of my resolutions this year was to print more of my work. Displaying memories through wall art, albums, cards, etc is important because they don’t need power or batteries which makes them live on pretty much forever. How are you doing with your new year’s resolutions? Read [...]

I was born and raised in Tempe, my grandmother started a restaurant in 1963 that continues to serve the East Valley, my mother shopped for grocery’s at Smitty’s, we ate breakfast at Harlow’s and dinner at the Spaghetti Bowl. Yet for so many years I’ve been drinking Starbucks coffee. I’ve even had a Starbucks Gold Card [...]

I love cigars and I love vintage cars. So when I heard that the Tinder Box in Ahwatukee was hosting a car show this weekend, I had to stop by. I used to work for Jeff Cayton at the Tinder Box and he’s a stand up guy, plus it was a fun “guy’s job!” The [...]

For more than 50 years, National Charity League, Inc. (NCL), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, has thrived as one of the nation’s most distinctive and well-respected mother-daughter membership organizations. Today, NCL has more than 160 Chapters with more than 40,000 actively engaged members – women and daughters in grades 7 through 12 – in 17 states. Annually, NCL [...]