September 9, 2016 When Catching Something is Good Catching a cold. Bad. Catching fire. Possibly bad. Catching chicken pox. Most definitely bad. Catching mistakes. GOOD! I am always happy and gratified when I see our clients emailing this phrase: “Thanks for catching that!” And it constantly surprises me how often I see that in our client correspondence. Over the years, we have made it a practice to try to spend some time reading over the “print ready” files our clients give us. Even though we did not create the files and, thus, could not be held responsible for errors contained in the wording, we still invest our resources in looking through and pointing…
November 9, 2015 The Tree I don’t want to bury the lead, so here it is. A tree fell on my printing company. There is no lesson to be learned here, other than sh%$t happens and people who can be flexible and limber in the aftermath will fare better than those who can’t think imaginatively and out of the box. Some general observations: Small tree, big problems. Huge tree, MASSIVE problems. Sometimes politicians DO help (shout out to Carl Stokes’s office for getting the Baltimore City Forestry team out to quickly remove their 110 year old tree out of my parking lot and off of…