Guest Blogging for Epic Public Relations Group

I started a guest blogging gig over at Epic Public Relations Group located in Alexandria, Virginia.

Epic is a boutique PR firm, specializing in launching, implementing and maintaining consumer-focused public relations campaigns for corporations, nonprofits and associations. Epic is owned and operated by Adele Gambardella Cehrs.

Here's my first online article for Epic. (My next "column" will be a spoof on narcissistic Italians.)

Social Media Losers: Average Dogs and Cats

Growing up in the seventies I’d pass many a creosote-soaked telephone pole on Victory Boulevard on Staten Island, running home as fast as my Chuck Lapchick black ankle-high Converse sneakers would carry me. That's how the word got out back then, stapling a bulletin to an oil, sweaty log.

Clutching a paper flyer in my sticky hand, I leapt into the living room to pow wow with the big Bow Wow.

“Dad, can I adopt this puppy?” I said, gulping for air.

“He’s free!” I yelped, grenading the flyer over the newspaper he was reading while he sat in a lopsided easy chair.

Anticipatory pause.

“Nah, I don’t want a dog,” the old man would drawl, “but he is cute. He’ll find a home.”

Try to put an average dog or cat on Facebook today. Poor orphans don’t even get a “Like.” Post that Pekingese twice on your Status Update and you could get hidden from several friends’ walls.

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