One of the more interesting persons that I have met along the way is Federation member Ken Previtali. He is candid, creative, smart and also the “Ginger Ale Man.” You may remember his great, award-winning display at the 2013 FOHBC [...]
Wednesday, 30 March 2016. I typically feel like I should mention the date when I write these President’s Messages since we are preparing BOTTLES and EXTRAS in a much more timely manner so that an issue arrives a week or [...]
Sitting down at my desk, on this first back-to-work Monday after New Years, I conjure up a vision of a stove with lots of pots-a-cooking. The kettle labeled antique bottle events has us all looking forward to the stretch leading [...]
November 9, 2015: As I sit here this Monday morning on a flight from Houston to Washington, D.C., I am saddened and find myself having a hard time focusing and concentrating on a few laptop tasks. You see, there is [...]
Time is just zooming by. Just when we finish one BOTTLES and EXTRAS issue or a Federation National Show, there is another to work on. Kind of like painting the Golden Gate Bridge, end-to-end each year. As soon as they [...]
Wow, what a hot and dry summer so far! It was 107 degrees one day in Houston as we look forward to the relief of fall and some rain. Most of us are busy with life and of course, we [...]
Some of you may know that I spend quite a bit of time travelling for business. Sometimes, I can even tie in a weekend bottle show if I am fortunate. With all of the tools available, I can run my [...]
Every two months, I am faced with a blank ‘page 3’ of the upcoming issue of Bottles and Extras. This is where the President of the FOHBC is supposed to give a message. The blankness is expansive until I start [...]
Here it is already the second day of February and I start off this Monday morning early at the office thinking about the great Superbowl game yesterday and watching it with my family. Another cold front was coming through and [...]
I really cannot believe how fast time flies by. I sometimes, amusingly to myself, create arbitrary gauges of distance and time. For instance, the distance from the larger United Airlines planes at O’Hare Airport in Chicago to the smaller United [...]
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