I spent much of my marketing career at The New York Times, so it’s fitting that I picked a newspaper term - tk - as the name of my blog. When deadlines loomed and material was still forthcoming, ‘tk,’ (short for ‘to kum’) was placed in the text, alerting editors and...

I’ve always liked the idea of a 30-day challenge. Small daily steps towards change appeals to my practical nature. Twice, I’ve made NanoWrimo work for me, but outside of those group-fueled spurts, I’ve had little success with writing goals based on word count. My...

And so 2016 comes to a close. So many significant markers on our cultural highway were knocked out that the year seemed malevolent. From the ashes, welcome 2017.