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Ensemble Comedy “Lucas Goes to Cabo” now available on Amazon!

June 3, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Worth the wait and laugh-out-loud funny! The eBook launched today, with print due to follow in just a couple days! I am very excited to share this story — the idea for it germinated at least five years ago and percolated seemingly forever until I figured it all out — but now that the read […]

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Filed Under: Humor, New Books and Screenplays

“Lucas Goes to Cabo” — a new comedy novella

March 31, 2022 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

New Comedy on the Way! A fun, quick, and easy read, Lucas Goes to Cabo is out with advanced readers. All appendages are crossed hoping the story will soon be ready for release. This ensemble comedy has been kicking and screaming inside my coconut for five or six years, morphing, changing, evolving, and birthing. At […]

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Filed Under: Humor, New Books and Screenplays

It’s Not About the Customer

February 14, 2016 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I was recently having lunch with a long-time friend and sales executive in Atlanta when he told a story about a customer’s simple ask proving to be virtually impossible to execute. When he finished this story–which was cringe-worthy but laugh out loud funny–he threw up his arms and proclaimed, “It’s not about the customer!” That comment gave […]

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Filed Under: Humor, Jobs, Multi-Generational Effectiveness

A New Year’s Resolution for All: Resolve to Stop Using These Words!

December 30, 2013 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Earlier this month Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, from its home base midway between the bright lights of New York City and the state capitol of Albany in scenic Poughkeepsie, surveyed nearly 1,200 adults to find out which word irritates them most. The winner . . . by a landslide . . . is […]

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Filed Under: Humor, Influencing Behaviors, Jobs, Life Skills, Writing

A Shocking Halloween Sales Stat & American Culture

October 30, 2013 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

30 October 2013 Tomorrow is Halloween, my favorite day of the year. I love watching kids have fun collecting and amassing the hoarded joy of childhood — great candy. I am a giver, the bane of dentists everywhere, because I deal out what I loved to collect — big chocolate candy bars, the gooier the […]

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Filed Under: Holidays, Humor

20 Facts to Impress Your Friends

March 1, 2012 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Let’s take a break to bone up on a little history. See how many of these you know, memorize the answers, and spring them on your friends. This is some tough people trivia, but tough is good. Answers follow at the bottom of the column. Alfred Nobel, the Swede whose will established annual cash awards […]

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Filed Under: Humor, Uncategorized

The Lighter Side: News Fit for a Monday

September 26, 2011 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

To buy some time while I continue working through a recently published list of the ten most unhappy jobs I offer today’s compilation of “news” from around the planet. A tip of the coffee mug to: Dog Eats Man: In a story that makes us all feel extra special about the bond between a man […]

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Filed Under: Humor

New Year’s Resolve: 14 Words to Forget

January 3, 2011 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

Congratulations, Lake Superior State University! The Lakers do not play football and their Division I hockey team is 6-10-4 (but has sent a dozen past players to the NHL). Their basketball team is 8-3 overall but 2-2 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference South Division. That league ain’t big. Just sayin.’ The tiny school […]

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Filed Under: Humor, The Creative Process, Uncategorized, Writing

Why Men Go Through a Midlife Crisis

November 16, 2010 by Ocean Palmer Leave a Comment

I am a man, at midlife, and quite familiar with crises. I’ve caused a few and watched others. And refereed a really good one. In fact, all of my peer group buddies have have either had a midlife crisis or dream of having one. Perky young girls are often involved, as are cars, hotels, diets […]

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Filed Under: Humor

Why Politics is a Cesspool

November 2, 2010 by Ocean Palmer 1 Comment

It’s an important day today, mid-term election day, and for the life of me I cannot figure out how the democratic process that built this great country has slid so far, so fast, without the Marx brothers somehow being involved. And I mean Groucho and Harpo, not Karl and kin. I am beyond embarrassed by […]

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Filed Under: Humor, Uncategorized

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