Bouncing Back
09/10/2020 The first toy that my parents later remembered giving me was a basketball. They said that I had been asking for the moon,…
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Let’s Talk About Something Else
04/14/2020 Let me make it clear up front that I am not totally anti-technology. I know that I have gone off on a number…
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Moonlight Serenade
02/07/2020 When Tom Williams and I started this company 36 years ago, I also had a fulltime job running a printing plant. I was…
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Old Salty Dog Blues
11/12/2019 I’m not getting any younger. I suspect that you’re not, either, and perhaps your customers are moving a little slower lately as well….
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Close Encounters
10/08/2019 Over the past few years, I have often remarked that there could be an asteroid headed toward Earth and the news media would…
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The Whiffenpoofs
I first became aware of “specialty” toy stores more than 30 years ago. Some of them were hybrids spun off from the school supply…
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Truckin’
As long as I have been around the toy industry, there has been a discussion, sometimes heated, about the role that gender plays in…
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Hold the Phone
Sometimes it’s difficult to separate our philosophical opinions from our self-interest. Do we favor certain government programs, for example, or tax policy, or whatever…
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The Undead
It turns out that Geoffrey may not have been a giraffe after all. He may be a vampire. By that I mean that he…
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Small Ball
I only knew one of my grandparents, my mother’s mother. She was born in 1891, long before the first World Series was played, but…
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