This week’s cartoon is a great analog for many of the organizations that frustrate us.  You might have noticed Melanie’s thoughts in the newsletter Customer Comments section where she expresses total frustration with a large communication company that we will call ad&d.  I share her pain and have written about ad&d in a past post [...]

There were lots of great reader comments this week.  I was greatly amused by Sean’s comment when he said, “JD, DJ, John, Dan, Whoever you are today and regardless of what you are obviously running from, I think this is a great site.  Sean is clearly on to my name game. Which leads to our [...]

This holiday season it is particularly gratifying that the WoodChips have become an international web site, regularly viewed in 110 countries around the world. I am reminded of Henry Wadsworth’s  lyrics in I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day when he says … I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols play, [...]

Have you ever had this happen?  Maple got a new cell phone for Christmas and Elmer and she are puzzled about how to use the darn thing. Especially how to just make a simple phone call. I’m sensitized to that fact because I recently made a phone upgrade with major phone carrier Runs Fast (not their [...]

Ahhh … so leave it to Woody, the sleazy Treezy used insurance salesman, to try to get free health care out of the airport security procedures.  That’s him in the glasses and the polyester bark. Of course, this is an illustration of synergy – you know, where the sum of the parts is greater than [...]

So DogWood finally finished his Christmas card and he’s real proud of it.  I mean, it’s hard to draw these things when you have paws and stuff.  And he’s right proud of his little pun about Holly Days (holidays – he wanted me to explain it – chuckle). That DogWood, he’s a real card. Anyhow, [...]

I was quite pleased to see our WoodChips cartoon posted on Drayton Bird’s blog recently. Who is Drayton Bird, you ask, and why was I so pleased? Drayton is a direct marketing guru, an Englishman, uncommonly modest, with a great sense of humor, and … … in in November 2003 the Chartered Institute of Marketing named Drayton Bird “one [...]

So I really heard a story like this over in the Bahamas … I didn’t say it was a true story, I will just say I definitely heard it. I had sailed my boat the Saline Solution II over to Bimini in the Bahamas, one of the islands in the Gulf Stream mentioned in Ernest [...]