Tag Archives: Books

Cooking Up A Storm Of New Cookbooks

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Terry Taylor

There are a lot of new back-to-basics cookbooks being published these days with the Slow Food movement and it’s first through third cousins roaming the aisles at bookstores.

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Sail Cat Road, Chapter 17

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Sail Cat Road, the sequel to No Good End, continues below. It is being posted tweet-by-tweet daily on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ttaylordude). I will post each chapter here (in chronological order). Thank you for your time. A breeze raked a fallen pine … Continue reading →

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Sail Cat Road, Chapter 16

Posted on December 14, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Chapter 16 Popping sounds came from relaxing metal under the pecan tree. Jimmy and Gus found no more drivers licenses. Gasoline soaked the earth. “You’ll want to walk back to the truck,” said Jimmy. “I’m going to roast some pecans.” … Continue reading →

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I Am What You Read

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Terry Taylor

Even with Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol” selling 2 million copies in its first week, book sales are down about 4 percent from this time last year. Bestselling authors like Pat Conroy and Mitch Albom are not rescuing the beleaguered … Continue reading →

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In Us We Trust

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Terry Taylor

    In Rob Walker’s book “Buying In,” along with espousing his thoughts on ‘murketing’ (look it up) he talks about how trust in authority is suffering even more than usual. A cursory Google dig will build a nice little … Continue reading →

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Stephen King Goes South

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Terry Taylor

In 1998, writer, Stephen King, became a part-time resident of the Florida Gulf Coast. Now he has set a novel there. Duma Key is Stephen King’s first Deep South novel. A writer friend of mine said, “If you think he … Continue reading →

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Glue #9: Spreading the Glue

Posted on December 7, 2007 by Terry Taylor

If you are even remotely familiar with Thomas L. Friedman’s book, “The World Is Flat, A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century,” you know about one of the biggest flatteners in the world: Wal-Mart.

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Ridin’ With Jimmy and The Boss

Posted on November 28, 2007 by Terry Taylor

If you haven’t read “Hammer of the Gods,” the seminal and raunchy history of Led Zeppelin by Stephen Davis, don’t worry, you have a couple of chances to get a close-up feel for the senior citizen gods of rock at … Continue reading →

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Glue #2: What is Glue and how can it help your company?

Posted on October 17, 2007 by Terry Taylor

Imagine you are in a room with a single lamp. The room is dark. You flip on the lamp. Nothing happens. You immediately think the bulb is blown. But then you fumble around in the dark and see that the … Continue reading →

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Glue: #1 How to Hold Your Business Together.

Posted on October 10, 2007 by Terry Taylor

This is the first in a series about the contact points that make a company successful. I’m not talking about just branding or marketing success; I’m talking about total success – in sales and operations and customer service and distribution … Continue reading →

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