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This column first appeared in Printing Impressions October 2012 © Bill Farquharson When did life get so busy? Why must we Google “free time” in order to recall what it means? And why am on my email at 10pm feeling like a son of anarchy when I should be in a chair watching Sons of

This column first appeared in Printing Impressions October 2020 © Bill Farquharson On October 20, 2020 at 10:10 PM Eastern time, I will turn 60 years old. The cursor is blinking at me, awaiting my next words but I am taking in the number “60.” Oddly, it’s one thing to say it and another thing

This column first appeared in Printing Impressions November 2020 © Bill Farquharson At some point this past spring, the game began. The Center for Disease Control counted to 10 and everyone scattered. Kids came home from school and went to their room. Visitors went back where they belong. City-dwellers became country folk.And clients left their

This column first appeared in Printing Impressions September 2020 © Bill Farquharson Ah, human nature. There are things in life that are just predictable: The odds of a dropped piece of buttered toast landing face down. The chances of the driver you just screamed at for cutting you off being your next appointment. And the

This column first appeared in Printing Impressions March 2020 © Bill Farquharson Watching a sporting event such as the Australian Open tennis tournament or a professional golf event or basketball or baseball or football and you will see two kinds of competitors. The first is the group possessing the kind of extraordinary talent and athletic

This column first appeared in Printing Impressions June 2020 © Bill Farquharson “The New Sales Challenges: What was once optional is now mandatory”Those were the words written on the whiteboard when the sales reps filed in to the conference room for the monthly meeting. As is company policy, no cell phones were allowed, leaving the

This column first appeared in Printing Impressions July 2020 © Bill Farquharson It’s as if you were in a coma, isn’t it? There you were cruising along and the next thing you know your book of business is a pamphlet. You can rub your eyes and pinch yourself all you want. Nothing is going to