Got news? MC is the new editor for BIZ (941) Daily
In 2011, BIZ 941 Magazine, the business sister magazine to Sarasota Magazine, asked me to edit news items for their daily e-newsletter that is read every day by thousands of Sarasota and Manatee County businesspeople.
The newsletter is chock full of timely — sometimes breaking — news about local businesses, new businesses, unemployment and real estate, government news, businesspeople news — who’s hired, promoted, etc., and information about local companies with publicly-traded stocks, etc.
If you’re interested in submitting a business news story for consideration in the BIZ (941) Daily e-newsletter, send it to: mc@coolidgewords.com.
If you’d like to sign up to receive the BIZ (941) Daily e-newsletter, just click here:
UFood Grill– Food U Might Like
I’m not a big stock market person, but over the past several months I’ve been buying some stock — not a ton, but just enough to make life interesting — in a penny stock called UFood.
UFood Grill (www.ufoodgrill.com) is a burgeoning restaurant chain based in Boston. This new restaurant brand was founded by the same guy, CEO George Naddaff who helped ignite the Boston Market franchise.
It’s a healthy fast-food choice — burgers, fries, sirloin, wraps, paninis. But everything’s baked, steamed or grilled — no frying! You can watch a video about the company and its food approach — just click here: I’m a UFood Fan!
Anyway, I’m having fun seeing what happens with the company. I don’t often have hunches about stocks, but have had two hunches in the past. One was just before Krispy Kreme went public and one was back in the earlier days of Chipotle — when the stock was still in the low 50s and affordable and long before it split and made a lot of people a lot of money.
Only wish I’d been one of them. Those were two times I didn’t follow my hunches and so now I have this third hunch and hey, we’ll see what happens.
If you’re interested in the stock, or just want to tell me how wrong I am — watch the video and/or leave me a comment. In the meantime, I’m looking forward to the day there’s a UFood Grill near me!
New Year, new me, new you … same old (wonderful) Siesta Key Beach
Image courtesy of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
Siesta Key, Florida beach rules!
Stop the Payola to Lure and Keep Businesses in Sarasota
“No one likes them. Every one hates them. Yet states and municipalities continue to offer monetary incentives to seduce companies to choose their communities over others. And, of course, we, the taxpayers, pick up the tab.” — That’s an excerpt from a great article in today’s Sarasota Herald-Tribune BIZ Weekly section by Jerry Chautin, a volunteer business counselor with Manasota SCORE. Click here to read the full story.
I AM … Who You Are
Click on the image to go to the I AM website.
And then, I really would be interested in hearing what you think … if you have time, come back here and post a comment or drop me a note on FB.
To boldly go … to the Longboat Key Education Center!
Yesterday, I had an absolute BLAST at the Longboat Key Education Center. I was there to give a talk and had a wonderful time speaking to and talking with the audience.
The Center’s director Susan Goldfarb was super charming and the audience asked such great questions and added many great comments during the 30-minute Q&A session.
I was supposed to be there to inspire them to be bold in the new year … but they inspired me!
Thanks to all who came!
Speaking: Longboat Key Education Center
Speaking at the Longboat Key Education Center OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
January 17 3 p.m.
Longboat Key, Florida. To register, visit http://www.lbkeducationcenter.org/
Nourish Your Noggin in Sarasota
Is it possible to nourish your noggin in Sarasota without breaking the bank? The answer is yes. And this week’s Sense and the City column tells you how!
Click here to read my column online — or check it out in today’s Sarasota Herald Tribune.
Connecting Selby Scholars and Sarasota Movers and Shakers
Selby Scholars Victoria Leonard, University of South Florida and Elaine Moore, Sarah Lawrence College; with Community Partner Darlene Wedler-Johnson, Provost, State College of Florida-Venice.
Former Selby Scholar now Project Manager Jodi Crabtree with Tandem Construction President Peter Hayes.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do?
Tell me, after you read The Summer Day, what you plan to do with your one, wild, precious life, on this winter January day?
The Summer Day by Mary Oliver
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
from New and Selected Poems, 1992
Beacon Press, Boston, MA
Copyright 1992 by Mary Oliver.
All rights reserved.