My daughter is from that generation: The one where all needs their are met and problems all solved by pressing a button! They have no...

I met Mike Beaudoin before he became involved with AllPro. He was working for a local distributor we deal with and everyone spoke of him...

My favorite types of problems are OTHER people’s problems! Coming home from work today, I could not help but notice an enormous air...

My (business) life has changed fundamentally since I started doing this blog late November of last year. Up until then, I was a basically...

I’m sort of a nickname-making machine. Everybody in my life gets one: most get more than one. In-fact, if you’re in my life...

‘What is the value in independent paint dealers building their own brand? Is your brand YOUR name on the door or theirs: theirs being the...

Lying in bed the other night, just about dozing off I heard “Oh no!” from my fiancée’s side of the bed. “Everything ok” I asked? Hoping...

Last night when my fiancée Gaetana (pronounced Guy-tah-nuh: we call her Guy for short) got home from work, I was still upstairs in my...

I always liked the word opportunistic: more specifically, it always moved me. Even as a kid before I knew what it meant to be...

Starting a column from a blank page is a daunting challenge for many writers.  Blank pages have a tendency to stare back at you, taunt...

“Don’t worry daddy, I won’t break it” was a constant refrain in my house when my daughter was younger. “Honey, be careful with that...

When I meet someone who reads my column regularly, one of the questions I frequently get asked is: “does the crazy stuff that you say...

Despite being raised in the same house, by the same parents and being very close in age, my sister Marci and I are nothing alike. We...

My fiancée is out of town visiting her family for four days. It was billed as an “aunt’s weekend," so Uncle Mark was left home! With her...

My sales rep from Benjamin Moore just won some sort of “Sales Rep of the Year” honor for 2018. I’m happy for him! He’s a young kid, just...

As you may imagine, I get into a lot of conversations about independent paint retailers. Having just returned from the AllPro show, I’m...

(Due to some sort of technical problem, I'm aware that MANY/MOST of you did not get the notification of this post going live. If you got...

There’s a lot that I don’t know. At least that’s what my daughter and fiancée like to remind me (with an annoying frequency). They like...

It’s the simplest questions that are often the most difficult to answer. Lying in bed the other night with my fiancée put her book down...

It may not be hyperbole to say I was born to be a Benjamin Moore dealer. My great-grandparents were both Benjamin Moore independent...