Ocean Palmer, Author at Ocean Palmer

Why I Walked Away

March 1, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Twenty years seems a long time. Then again it’s less than the blink of an eye since the earth is 4.6 billion years old. Too bad we insist on making it show its age. I have earned a buck many ways since the tragic day my parents halted the allowance gravy train: Fur trapper → […]

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Pole Dancing in the Olympics?

February 28, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

With the Winter Games winding down in the blink of an eye it will be time to refocus on London and the Summer Games of 2012. A couple days ago I was reading the paper when my wife interrupted with news that pole dancing is being pushed as a new Olympic sport. I laughed and […]

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Why Companies Herd Cats

February 26, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

My friends in the staffing and recruiting profession stay relentlessly busy and vital to their organizations because of a universal reality: Not everyone on the payroll cares about the company paying them. Every company is comprised of good workers, great actors, and others vacillating between the two. Based on how much they care, workers fall […]

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When to Stay, When to Leave

February 24, 2010 by Ocean Palmer 2 Comments

With worker dissatisfaction at a record high, from it springs a question: When should I stay in a job and when should I leave? There are strong parallels between a worker’s job loyalty and that of a personal relationship. When we invest time, energy, and emotion into a job we pay a price for the […]

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Dimpled Idiot

February 23, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

note: Despite living in a glass house of my own, I am compelled to roll a boulder toward another. Here is an inescapable truth: I no longer can stomach Tiger Woods. ↓ Watching Tiger Woods pretend to have a “news conference” with no journalists and only invited friends, I couldn’t help but think what a […]

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Sweat Dancing

February 21, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Sweat dancing is a spontaneous participation sport endemic of wedding receptions and overcrowded rooms with high humidity and poor ventilation, with cover bands loudly blasting songs from the sweatees’ formative years. The igniter is booze, the supreme catalyst an open bar. From it shall flow mountains of jiggles and fountains of sweat. Sweat dancing is […]

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How to Stay Young: Avoid the Reflexive Loop

February 19, 2010 by Ocean Palmer 3 Comments

According to reviewers my novels and screenplays are fun to read because I write good characters. Great characters can carry a good story. Lousy ones can’t. One key to writing good characters is that I meet and know a lot of people, which helps because all of us have quirks that we easily recognize in […]

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Selling Value In A Tight Economy

February 18, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

This weekend I’ll be in New Orleans as a guest panelist during the American Marketing Association’s annual convention. New Orleans is one of two cities where Americans act squirrely the instant they exit the airplane. The other is Las Vegas. Each year in Las Vegas millions of people race out of McCarran Airport in a […]

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The Crab & The Eel

February 16, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I was born in Philadelphia and lived in its suburbs until seventh grade, when my family moved mid-year to Severna Park, Maryland, a pretty town nine miles up the Severn River from where Annapolis and the Naval Academy meet the mouth at the Chesapeake Bay. The bay is salt water but the Severn’s source is […]

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Margaret’s Tree

February 15, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

When I finished speaking recently at Jacksonville University I took a walk across the campus to inspect a flowering cherry blossom tree. It was a cold afternoon by north Florida standards, the breezy mid-fifties. I have lived in Colorado for eleven years and the mid-fifties is balmy; but all around me Floridians were bundled up […]

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