In nearly every business or sport I can think of, not to mention every romance, an essential compound word is “follow-through.”
In business, it can mean keeping your promises; in sports completing a pass; and in romance, both. Here are follow-throughs to two recent columns/blogs (“clogs”).
I’ve made so many mistakes in my decades with the Dept. of Earth that if I were a woman, and still had my tragic love of wordplay, I’d change my name to Mea Culpa.
Example: Cynthia Adamson, a business development pro with S.D. Deacon, is a faithful but obviously not blindly loyal reader of mine. She pointed out on Thursday that in my reference to the painting “American Gothic” (which I said River City Bank’s CEO Steve Fleming could have posed for), I credited Norman Rockwell rather than Grant Wood with having created it.
Oil Portrait
The boo-boo was fixed online (and my initial error duly noted) but still appeared in my column in Friday’s print edition of the Business Journal. This is embarrassing because I know and possibly knew better.
Oil Portraits
If I were D. Oldham Neath, the art curator at KVIE, I’d think twice about inviting me back as one of their on-air “experts” during its annual art auction. (I was on the weekend before last for two 30-minute segments.
My daughter Jessica Laskey, on the other hand, who works at the station full-time, was asked to do about 10 segments. Perhaps the station’s on to me). Many thanks to Adamson who, in her email to me, modestly added, “Isn’t Wikipedia great?”
Read More: http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/blog/ed-goldman/2012/10/ed-goldman-my-little-art-history-flub.html
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