Author Archives: Scott Smith

Performance Review

A few months into my job at a Chicago ad agency.  A Drexel University student started his second internship in my department. This position had been arranged months before I started my job, thus I was not involved in the hiring … Continue reading

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Naming Rights

Heads or Tails? My favorite  sports memory was a coin toss. This is likely quite rare, among fans, and even non-fans. I may be even be alone in this. I haven’t watched football for many years, my reasons for shunning … Continue reading

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The Happiest Emergency Field Hospital on Earth

I am a recovering Florida Man. I haven’t lived there in decades, and after I lost my parents I haven’t had much motivation to go back there, even for brief  vacations, during Michigan’s face-cutting cold. I do know a lot … Continue reading

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Royal

When I was a sophomore in  (the former ”white”) high school, my father shared a conversation he’d had at the local hospital, where he worked as a nurse. He had  been told that Jackie Robinson had made his professional debut … Continue reading

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