My creative partner, Bob Pasqualina, was seven years older than me, so I had the benefit of anticipating the curve balls life might throw at me through his experiences. One day, he came to work looking very pale, almost like he’d seen a ghost.  He was uncharacteristically quiet and seemed to be off in a [...]

I’m always writing ads in my head.  Most of them are for real clients whose businesses I’m trying to help grow. But others are just exercises I do to keep the creative juices flowing.  Some might say it’s a big waste of time.  But once an idea pops in my head, it’s very hard to [...]

In February of 2000, Charlie Moss called to tell me that Mary Wells was about to be inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame at the Waldorf Astoria in New York and that she would be honored if I would fly in for the occasion. SHE would be honored?  I was thrilled that she thought [...]