Sometimes the hardest advice to take is the advice that you are used to giving out to others. We preach to our clients how they need to relinquish control of their messaging, since it’s not really up to them anyway. But when it comes time for us as marketers to do the same thing, it’s [...]

Lots of parents have a great stories about staying up late in the night to assemble bicycles, trains sets, and all manner of other toys. Now, that’s just the half of it. Not only are toys getting more complicated, the amount of information surrounding them is exploding exponentially.
This year, my husband received [...]

Now that I’ve completed my whirlwind Christmas trip home… it’s time for New Year’s… but my favorite part of New Year’s is the end of the current year.  Why?  Because EVERYONE releases top ten lists and years in review and superlatives (Borat in Time Magazine’s top ten?  For real?).  It’s great fun to look [...]

“This Ain’t a Scene, It’s an Arms Race” is the first single from Fall Out Boy’s upcoming album, Infinity on High. When I first heard the song on Sirius Alt Nation about 3 weeks ago I called my daughter and let her listen in on her cell. My twelve year old daughter knew about the [...]

Okay, everyone who knows me knows I am quite sentimental at Christmas. And this one is no exception. I am about to take some time off for the holiday, so as I walked into work early this morning, I was filled with this overwhelming gratitude for the people who choose to call Brains on Fire [...]

I’ve been a little blog prolific lately. Sorry. I promise I’ll try not to complain about travel in this one.
Yesterday, as a Christmas gift to her fans, J.K. Rowling announced the title of the 7th and final installment in the Harry Potter series. Of course, in true Potter fashion, it couldn’t be [...]

Okay… for those of you who are faithful followers of our blog, you know that (a la Steve Martin and John Candy) I am trying to get home for the holidays. Unfortunately, home is closed. All the interstates into Colorado have been shut down, flights are cancelled, the snow’s still falling, the wind’s [...]

I’m in the process of finishing up my Christmas shopping (still no idea what to get my parents, by the way). At any rate, today I spent some time working on my gifts for my two younger brothers… but any time I concentrate on my brothers for too long (the fact that one just [...]

Last week, while on the road, I got tagged in the latest “chain-blog” going around the ‘sphere. The object is to write about five things that people didn’t know about you. Both David Burn over at AdPulp and Lewis Green at bizsolutionsplus tagged me, so without further adieu, here are five random things that you [...]

How many times have you have found that pair of pants you want but you have no luck on the size. Making a mad dash through my local mall several weeks ago I stumbled on a sweet pair of hounds tooth stretch wool pants. I’m a clothes horse what can I say. Unfortunately they didn’t [...]